Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test is a free software from Sophos that asses security readiness of PC to see that computer does not becomes a security threat for the organization. It scans a computer for security patches, antivirus, and firewall, and reports the results if anything is missing.
Organizations have a wide scale deployment of computers, and it is easy to miss some computer that might not be compliant with security policies. It might be missing some important security patches, or antivirus itself might not be running. Such a computer would be the weakest link in your security chain, and can potentially be a security risk for the entire organization. So, it is important to find such computer. This is where Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test comes handy.
When you run this security testing software on any PC, it checks following things:
- PC is running latest service pack available for that version of Windows.
- PC has all the security patches from Microsoft installed.
- PC has a good antivirus software running.
- PC has a firewall running.
If Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test finds that any of these items are not proper, it reports the irregularities.
This freeware comes from the makers of Sophos File Encryption, and Sophos Anti-Rootkit.
Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test is good tool to run on all the PCs once in a while. It is totally free, and running it doesn’t hurts anything.
Download Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test free.
