Established in 2008, Northern.tech specializes in device lifecycle management. Their main goal has been to secure connected devices across the globe. The firm introduced CFEngine, which is designed to automate IT operations and compliance on a large scale, marking their entry into server configuration management before the advent of IIoT and IoT. In 2015, Northern.tech brought forward Mender.io, a platform dedicated to over-the-air (OTA) software update management. This tool supports secure, robust, and customizable OTA software updates for intelligent devices, and is utilized to update software on a wide range of devices across the globe.
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The feature I like the most about CFEngine Enterprise that it use public-key encryption to identify clients which provide security to the system and another it can easily integrate with other platforms like Linux, windows and cvs etc.
It is very flexible to use and the feature I like the most that it can work in both distributed and isolation manner. It has provided very comprehensive documentation to understand the working procedure of CFEngine.
The thing which annoy me the most about CFEngine Enterprise is its customizability of the configuration that it provide. It should need to provide more efficient and easy way to customize the configuration.
The problem I feel with CFEngine is that it doesn't work properly with file integrity checkers such as tripwire. The rest everything is fine.