Developer(s) SekChek IPS Size 2.0MB | Operating system License Proprietary | |
Stable release V1.5.4 / 21 August 2015 Type Computer Security, Audit, Benchmarking | ||
SekChek Local is a set of automated computer security audit and benchmarking tools developed by SekChek IPS in March 2008.
Contents
The product analyses security controls on Hosts or domains across an organisation’s LAN and produces reports relating to the security on the network. The reporting engine is based on a portable Microsoft Access database. The product comprises 3 built-in security analysis tools: SekChek for SAM, SekChek for AD and SekChek for SQL.
Supported Platforms and Technologies
SekChek Local supports:
SekChek Classic, an alternate offering supports a wider range of platforms:
Encryption technologies
Microsoft Office versions:
Features
The tool benchmarks Windows OS security policies against data points contained in a statistics database. The statistics database contains over 30 million anonymous security measures retrieved from over 80,000 analyzed systems located in 140 countries. The developers of the software designed the built-in reports to assist general management, IT & audit professionals to quickly assess the state of security. The tool provides customisable summary and detailed reports in graphical and tabular formats via Microsoft Access. MS-Access assists in sorting, filtering and querying the data.
The SAM tool analyses security policies and objects defined on Windows member computers. These include all versions of Windows servers from Windows NT 4.0 The company states that the SAM tool was designed to analyze security on multiple member Servers and Workstations running any version of Microsoft Windows. The product analyses the hosts details, User and Group accounts, Group memberships, Account Rights, Administrative privileges, Security policies, Security properties, Services, Audit Events, Network Shares, Disks and Host Properties.
The SekChek AD tool analyses the domain-wide security policies and security objects defined in an Active Directory domain. The product analyzes the Domain account policies, Group Policy Objects (GPO) and links, User and Group accounts, Password Setting Objects (PSOs), DACLs and SACLs, Global Catalog Servers, Group memberships, Sites and Organizational Units, Trusts, Domain controllers and FSMO role owners.
SekChek for Exchange analyses Exchange organisations, Storage groups, Databases, Exchange servers and mail-enabled user objects.
The SekChek for SQL tool analyses database security settings, access rules and objects defined in Microsoft SQL Databases and supports versions of Microsoft SQL Server from SQL 2000. The product analyzes MS-SQL Server Settings, Logins, Server Roles, Database Users, Database Roles, Database Application Roles, Databases and file and directory Permissions.