Product Comparisons – support.4northstar.com

NorthStar Platform Features		SOLVE for DCS/CSP	SOLVE for SEP	SOLVE for Dell DPE	SOLVE for Sym. DLP	NS Asset Tracking	NS Risk Tracking	NS Access Tracking Coming Soon
Platform
Simple installation and configuration on Windows 2008+ and SQL Express 2008+		X	X	X	X	X	X
Fully HTML5 compliant for cross-browser and cross-platform use including tablets and phones		X	X	X	X	X	X
Scales both Horizontally and Vertically		X	X	X	X	X	X
FIPS compliance for FIPS secured Windows servers	New in 4.0.4!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Security
Strong Salted Hashes for Native Authentication		X	X	X	X	X	X
SHA256 Encryption for datasource passwords		X	X	X	X	X	X
User Groups for Access Control		X	X	X	X	X	X
Supports SiteMinder Integration		X	X	X	X	X	X
Supports Active Directory Integration for Authentication	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Supports Active Directory Auto-Provisioning for Account Creation	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Supports Active Directory Role Sync (AD Roles automatically grant/revoke NS User Groups)	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Full Audit Logging for Logins and Dashboard Viewing		X	X	X	X	X	X
Full Audit Logging of Security Changes		X	X	X	X	X	X
Metrics
Self-service dashboard creation with multiple predefined layouts		X	X	X	X	X	X
Easy chart creation including unlimited drilldowns		X	X	X	X	X	X
Easy selection of detail fields		X	X	X	X	X	X
Standard chart types including: bar, line, pie, pivot, top x, rollup		X	X	X	X	X	X
Advanced chart types including US Map and World Map		X	X	X	X	X	X
Add notes to charts to inform users how to interpret data		X	X	X	X	X	X
Visual cues notifying users when data has been filtered		X	X	X	X	X	X
Export to excel		X	X	X	X	X	X
Zoom in to specific dashboard panels		X	X	X	X	X	X
Scheduled reports to upload to a fileshare		X	X	X	X	X	X
Scheduled reports to be delivered via email		X	X	X	X	X	X
Scheduled reports delivered as html		X	X	X	X	X	X
Scheduled reports delivered as pdf		X	X	X	X	X	X
Scheduled reports delivered as csv	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Configurable security controlling which dashboards are available to which users		X	X	X	X	X	X
Configurable security controlling which rows of data are available to which users		X	X	X	X	X	X
Jump to details at any point in drilldown		X	X	X	X	X	X
Special animated charts to show changes over time		X	X	X	X	X	X
Advanced caching for improved performance		X	X	X	X	X	X
Ability to auto-refresh dashboard content at set intervals	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Search
Simple search with multiple criteria		X	X	X	X	X	X
Save criteria for reuse		X	X	X	X	X	X
Easily select which fields appear in results and download to Excel		X	X	X	X	X	X
Configurable security controlling which rows of data are available to which users	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Scheduler
Advanced scheduler supporting multi-server farm		X	X	X	X	X	X
Ability to define blackout windows for all jobs and/or specific jobs	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Ability to define job predecessors	New in 4.0!	X	X	X	X	X	X
Ability to group jobs together as mutually exclusive		X	X	X	X	X	X
Alert if jobs fail		X	X	X	X	X	X
Auto upgrade scheduler service when application is upgraded		X	X	X	X	X	X
Support for running scheduler with database behind a firewall		X	X	X	X	X	X
Data Streams (Realtime Reporting)
SEP – Assets		X
SEP – Admin Events		X
SEP – Virus Alerts		X
SEP – ADC Events		X
SEP – Firewall Events		X
SEP – Security Events		X
DCS/CSP – Assets			X
DCS/CSP – Events			X
DDPE – Licenses				X
DDPE – Admin Log Events				X
DDPE – Endpoints				X
DDPE – Users				X
DLP – Agent Status					X
DLP – Admin Events					X
DLP – Discoverer Incidents					X
DLP – Messages					X
Scheduler Plugins
NSDBPurge – Delete data from specific tables		X	X	X	X	X	X
NSEmail – Handles sending all email to POP3 Server		X	X	X	X	X	X
NSADImport – Read data from Active Directory domain controllers						X	X
NSADLocalImport – Read local user/group data from servers						X	X
NSCVEImport – Import vulnerability data from MITRE						X	X
NSDBExec – Run user-define SQL						X	X
NSDBImport – Copy data from databases (MSSQL, MySQL, DB2, Oracle)						X	X
NSDBQueryAlert – Send emails based on existence or absence of data plus include data in email or as CSV	New in 4.0!					X	X
NSEmailReader – Reads emails from SMTP server for specific accounts and downloads attachments for processing						X	X
NSFileCopy – Copys files from fileshares, websites, or FTP servers						X	X
NSFileExec – Executes user-defines binaries (exe/com)						X	X
NSFileImport – Imports data from CSVs, Tab Delimited, or Excel files into database tables	New in 4.0!					X	X
NSWebAPIReader – Reads data from SOAP web services						X	X
NSXMLImport – Parses and loads XML data into database tables						X	X
Transformation Engine
Merge data from multiple sources into a single unified record						X	X
Powerful data cleanup with wildcards and regular expressions						X	X
Select specific field data source based on data source quality						X	X
Every record carries confidence score identifying how reliable the data is						X	X
Automatically build daily history for tracking change over time						X	X
Asset Superlist – List of all computing assets including computers, switches, phones, etc.						X	X
Asset IP Superlist – List of all IPv4 addresses and what they were assigned to over specific periods of time						X	X
Asset Groups Superlist – User defined groupings of assets						X	X
Business Apps Superlist – List of business platforms (i.e. Payroll System, eCommerce, etc.)						X	X
Business Apps Assets Superlist – List of which assets work together to provide the business platform functionality						X	X
Locations Superlist – list of physical locations						X	X
Risks Superlist – List of all defined risks including Missing Patches, Misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities							X
Risk CVEs Superlist – List of CVEs that map to each risk							X
Risk Assets Superlist – List of which assets have which risks							X
Symantec DeepSight Integration							X