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OCTOBER 2004

Product Review:
Layton Technology’s Audit Wizard
by Mitchell Levine

Longtime readers of Education Update’s Technology and Education section are undoubtedly aware of the almost $1.1 billion the New York City school system has spent on technology and technology education. Despite that wise investment, one thing that‘s unfortunately remained a limited resource is IT support. Due to funding constraints, many schools have been forced to supplement their paid IT management with student volunteers. While remaining a viable solution to the tech support problem, it does create some critical issues, one of which is system integrity. With numerous users and unpaid student volunteers managing systems, an administrator needs to be able to ensure that inappropriate and bootleg software isn’t installed on institutional networks, and monitor peripheral usage as well as internet activity.

Worried about your library or AV club student techs installing illicit software downloaded from a P2P file sharing site? Run a system check to determine the software currently on the system, and, once its existence has been confirmed, a database purge will wipe it right out of your network. At the same time, compile a complete internet history and list of cookies logged, and you’ll know exactly how your computers have been used with accurate time and date stamps available. Plus, the software will provide a thorough register of hardware as well, including data like network and IP addresses, installation dates, hard drive capacities, BIOS and peripheral data, memory configuration, and much more.

Audit Wizard can help protect network and local computers against spyware, keyloggers, and other malicious programs often injected from removable disks, by simply running a regular system audit, followed by a purge. It even supports remote scans, enabling a system administrator to perform a scan on remote machines using BIOS or TCP/IP protocols over the Net.

Although the package is not as well known, or publicized, as some of the more boutique, pervasively marketed software and hardware solutions on the shelves these days, based on both the uniqueness of its features, and the cost factor, it deserves to be. Any school technology buyer with a need to produce results in the system security area—which, actually, should include just about any school tech buyer in New York—should give this product at least a Missouri look. For information, or to purchase and download, log on to the manufacturers site, www.laytontechnology.com.#

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