Microsoft Configuration Manager and Ivanti Security Controls compete in IT management and security. Microsoft has the edge with integration capabilities in the Microsoft ecosystem, while Ivanti excels in providing robust security features.
Features: Microsoft Configuration Manager includes comprehensive software deployment, asset management, and real-time compliance reporting. Ivanti Security Controls offers vulnerability scanning, patch management, and application control. The key difference is Ivanti’s extensive security options for security-focused organizations.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Configuration Manager allows a familiar setup for users of Microsoft tools, benefiting from detailed documentation and a large support community. Ivanti Security Controls provides a modular deployment strategy adaptable to diverse environments, with strong customer support and prompt service. Ivanti’s customizable approach suits varied IT infrastructures.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Configuration Manager generally requires investment in Microsoft licensing, which can impact initial setup costs but often results in ROI through increased productivity with Microsoft integrations. Ivanti Security Controls tends to present a higher initial cost due to specialized security features but delivers substantial ROI by mitigating security risks and reducing breach-related expenses, emphasizing a choice between seamless integration and comprehensive security.
Ivanti Security Controls simplifies security with unified and automated prevention, detection, and response techniques that target your biggest attack vectors. It provides the security global experts agree creates the highest barriers to modern cyber attacks, including discovery, OS and application patch management, privilege management, and whitelisting.
Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.
New features of Configuration Manager, such as the support of Windows 10 in-place upgrade, co-management with Microsoft Intune, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Servicing Dashboard, integration with Windows Update for Business, and more make deploying and managing Windows easier than ever before.
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