SecurityAnalyst 5.1 is an agentless assessment tool that does not require the installation of software agents on target systems. This greatly reduces the number of man-hours needed to perform security audits, saving time and money. This also makes security assessment much simpler because it does not require exhaustive interaction with system administrators. The only requirement of the auditor is administrator/supervisor permissions for the domain.

With SecurityAnalyst, administrators maintain complete security policy control by using adaptable, industry "best practices" policy templates. Additionally, it provides more than 60 customizable analysis and compliance reports, from report card summaries to full-featured management reviews.

With its rapid assessment, built-in policy definition and comprehensive reporting capabilities, SecurityAnalyst can help administrators analyze network risks so they can take immediate corrective action to safeguard network integrity

1. Enhanced GUI: The GUI has been thoroughly revised to provide an interface component that keeps users informed during auditing and presents the assessment data in various formats.
2. Multi-threaded Auditing: To increase speed and performance, a thread pool manager, the Analyst Run Time Optimizer (ARTO), determines the number of threads and their priorities.
3. Host Discovery Module: This module is responsible for discovering and maintaining the network topography. It gains specific information about various hosts on the network, and stores the information
4. New Analyst and Network Tools: From the Analyst main menu, users can select from three new Network Tools (Ping, Trace Route, and Port Scanner) and from updated Analyst Tools (File Rights Auditor, Reg
5. New Alert Notification Methods: Two new alert notification methods are included: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Microsoft Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI).
6. Inter-domain Comparison Audits: SecurityAnalyst 5.1 can compare two audits on the same or different domains against a security standard.
7. Comparison of Security Standards: The six audited groups of security parameters are compared for the number of tests enabled during these assessments
8. Enhanced Password Checker Tool: Password Checker is enhanced with the ability to check for the existence of passwords and their strength. The password dictionary can contain different character sets
9. New Comprehensive Reports: For each assessment, an extensive reporting capability is available for understanding the results of the audit. New reports have been added to the large list already present