wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources belarc news newspapers books scholar jstor free images february 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message belarc inc. type private industry computer software founded 1997 headquarters maynard massachusetts u.s. key people gary newman president sumin tchen chairman products belmanage data analytics module belsecure belarc advisor website belarc.com belarc s cloud architecture allows users to simplify and automate the management of all of their desktops servers and laptops throughout the world using a single database and intranet server . belarc s products automatically create an accurate and up to date central repository cmdb consisting of detailed software hardware and security configurations . belarc s products are used for software license management configuration management cyber security status information assurance audits it asset management and more . belarc s products are in use on over fifty million computers . citation needed contents 1 belarc advisor 2 history 3 references 4 external links belarc advisor edit belarc also offers the belarc advisor as a free download for personal use . the belarc advisor builds a detailed profile of installed software and hardware missing security patches anti virus status and nist scap security configurations usgcb fdcc and displays the results in a web browser . all of the profile information is kept private on the user s computer and is not sent to any web server . 1 there are over 500 000 downloads of the belarc advisor every month . citation needed the report is divided into a number of sections . the summary report lists details of the computer s hardware local user and system accounts a map of the local area network lists of software licence keys and installed hotfixes and an inventory of the installed software with an indication of when each piece of software was last used . the security benchmark score report on a separate page details the computer s compliance with us government configuration baseline benchmarks developed by the united states department of defense and national institute of standards and technology . the benchmarks are grouped into general categories . the status of compliance with each benchmark and the overall compliance per category are shown . administrators of commercial versions of windows can use the group policy editing tool which can be configured to display usgcb benchmarks to resolve many of these non compliances . the home versions of windows do not implement group policies . users of these versions have to research the related control panel or registry settings if they wish to effect compliance with benchmarks they consider important . history edit belarc was founded in 1997 by gary newman and sumin tchen . dr. jack goldman 2 creator and visionary behind xerox s palo alto research center xerox parc was an early director of the company . belarc is owned by its founders and employees . citation needed references edit http download.cnet.com belarc advisor 3000 2094 4 10007277.html belarc press release creator of xerox parc joins belarc board external links edit official website this united states software corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title belarc & oldid 704256964 categories configuration managementinformation technology management1997 establishments in the united statescompanies established in 1997companies based in massachusettsprivately held companies of the united statesunited states software company stubshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from february 2010all articles with topics of unclear notabilityall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2016articles with unsourced statements from july 2013all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 10 february 2016 at 14 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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