compliance that includes asset discovery to perform audits of managed and unmanaged assets; vulnerability management to conduct vulnerability detection and reporting for operating systems, infrastructures, network applications, and databases; configuration management to compare system configuration and compliance with IT security standards; and policy management to initiate, review, publish, and maintain security policies.

ideon Technologies, Inc. is based in Alpharetta, Georgia. As per the transaction announced on January 12, 2010, Gideon Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Symantec Corporation.