Why Choose Access Security Manager(ASM)?

Access Security Manager provides you with an easy-to-use application for finding, auditing and changing folder and mailbox permissions.

The objective of ASM is to enhance the security of your Exchange System, by giving your Administrator the ability to review and change permissions quickly and accurately.

How to find a needle in a haystack?

How is an Exchange administrative team able to both guarantee and demonstrate that all permissions are appropriate to the security policy? There are generally a huge number of permissions and the small number of anticipated exceptions make the task impossible manually.

ASM enables an automated audit of all permissions associated with an Exchange mailbox or public folder, and performs relevant changes.

Regain Control

ASM should be used both for

• Routine systems maintenance eg when a user leaves the organisation, all their permissions are changed
• Regular security audits

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Datasheets and White Papers

• Acces Security Manager Data Sheet
• E-mail risk control white paper

Product Requirements

Access Security Manager is a standalone application which can be installed on any Windows XP, 2000 or 2003 system

that has Outlook installed on it. Appropriate permissions over the Exchange system will be needed. It supports

Exchange 2003, 2000 and 5.5.

Technical Overview

ASM makes it easy to find all objects over which a user has rights across the whole Exchange system

The information store can be searched for specific permissions or roles, or for all the roles that are assigned to specific users or groups of users. This makes ASM the ideal tool for an Exchange security audit. Who does have access to the board of directors' e-mail accounts? Are the secure public folders as secure as we need them to be? The application has been designed to be operated by professionals concerned with the security of corporate e-mail.

Security Auditing

Permission Maintenance

Not only is ASM an ideal tool for the security audit, it is also an invaluable tool for day to day permissions maintenance. For example, cleaning up the rights and permissions of deleted users is no longer a problem. With ASM the deleted user can be described and located anywhere in the Exchange public or private information stores.

Other tasks such as reassigning rights is easy as you do not need to know where the original user had rights, only that the new users will have the same ones.

Once a permission is located it can be changed in a simple fashion.

If you have chosen to alter permissions in any way then ASM will highlight the changes before any update is performed, meaning that you are always in control of permissions updates. You will also be able to export the results of a permissions search directly to Excel.

Deployment and support

ASM is a standalone application (not requiring a service) that is controlled using a standard MMC Snap-in. It is run on NT, 2000 and XP operating systems and supports both Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000.

C2C Systems suggests that the application be installed on a desktop machine as opposed to being installed on the same machine as the Exchange Server.

It uses Windows messaging (minimum Outlook 98 required on ESRA machine) to access the Exchange server and sufficient permissions will be needed by the user both installing and operating ASM. The specific permissions that are needed are outlined in the ASM manual.

If you have any questions about ASM then please contact support@flexnet.com