Our Unique Approach

Our Unique Approach

Many products claim to address today's most significant IT compliance and operational efficiency challenges. However, the effort required to deploy and maintain such solutions inevitably outweighs their advertised benefits. Gears SignaCert solutions have been uniquely designed to help IT organizations rapidly address their critical issues with a minimum amount of effort through centralized reference management, the elimination of unwanted noise, and seamless integration into existing environments.

  • IT Ops Efficiency
    In contrast to change detection products that generate unintelligible reports listing thousands of individual changes, SignaCert solutions reports on actionable information such as application, version and vendor. This powerful correlation capability results in reports that are immediately actionable, markedly reducing analysis time and associated mean time to repair (MTTR).
  • Centralized References
    Unlike products that maintain a unique reference for every system monitored, SignaCert solutions utilize common reference configurations to quickly assess and report on the compliance of any number of deployed systems. This centralized reference management methodology enables organizations to manage more infrastructure with fewer resources.
  • Lifecycle Stability
    Traditional change detection products only detect changes to business services once they are stable and have been deployed onto production systems. SignaCert solutions allow organizations to capture references for multiple business service revisions and validate that the service is deployed as intended throughout each phase of its lifecycle (development, quality assurance, staging, and production).
  • Open Architecture
    Unlike products that rely on proprietary agents, data formats, and protocols, SignaCert solutions leverage open standards including web services, XML data formats, and common data exchange interfaces. This open architecture enables SignaCert solutions to quickly and seamlessly integrate into established IT environments and processes without the significant costs associated with modifying proprietary solutions.
  • Immediate Value
    In contrast to traditional software-only solutions, which require a complex installation and configuration process, SignaCert leverages a ready-to-run virtual appliance. This dramatically reduces the amount of time necessary for IT organizations to realize the substantial benefits associated with the use of SignaCert solutions.
  • Regulatory Compliance
    Includes standardized, easily customizable templates for proving IT system configuration compliance against many current and emerging regulatory standards, including industry and government mandated security requirements.
  • Authenticity
    The SignaCert Global Trust Repository is comprised of software measurements obtained through direct partnerships with software vendors covering a broad range of operating systems, device drivers, and applications. This known-provenance approach is in stark contrast to competitive signature repositories, which rely on indiscriminate web-scraping technologies resulting in extremely unreliable and frequently misleading data.