At the univeristy IT department where I worked, we wanted to secure our computers against hackers. We realized that someone could take a CD, USB drive, or external hard drive and boot to it. Then, they could hack our systems and seal our data. Here's how we solved the problem.
We searched and searched for a solution that would allow us to secure the BIOS. We did not want to visit each computer to change and update the BIOS. Thankfully, we found the HP Altiris solution. It allows you to change every aspect of the BIOS.
When everything was said and done, we did the following:
This was all easily configured and deployed. It also worked like a charm. We were also able to monitor the health of our computers and track of driver updates. It is an amazing piece of technology.
This saved us a ton of time and money. If we had not found this solution we would have had to visit each computer and update the BIOS manually. This would have been problematic because quality of our work would have suffered (because of all of the settings we would have had to set). Not only did this package help us solve a current problem, it helped us predict future problems.
The best day of work deals with this software. I showed up to work and opened my email. I saw that I had 30+ new emails. I was shocked. Then I saw that the emails were from computers. Someone had opened the cases. Then I remembered that we were checking some parts in our HPs, the system had worked!