Well-Intentioned Employees Can Make Poor Judgment Calls
In 2007, Google’s Street View project began to collect “payload data” including e-mail addresses, text messages, and passwords from unsecured Wi-Fi networks of potentially hundreds of millions of people. More than a dozen countries began investigations of Street View in 2010 and in the United States, the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorney…
Our Newest Release – Retina CS 3.1
Our product team has just put the finishing touches on the newest release of Retina CS, our award-winning Threat Management Console. Version 3.1 expands our market leadership in innovation for helping IT secure the technologies being widely deployed today. As it has been since halfway through 2011, Retina CS remains the only unified vulnerability and…
Data Lost: Covering Your Assets
According to a recent CDW poll, one in four organizations experienced data loss in the past two years. Imagine the amount of customer, student, employee and patient information lost because of those incidents, never mind the ones that go unreported. Aligning with this shocking stat is that according to the same study, the number of…
NBC Chicago Interviews Marc Maiffret on Email Security
Recently, Marc Maiffret was interviewed on NBC Chicago about the security risks involved when unsubscribing from emails and how to best avoid being compromised by email spam (it does make up 80% of all email traffic in the United States, after all). Below is that interview and an excerpt from the article. Read the entire…
Manage Privileged Access for UNIX/Linux with Microsoft Active Directory
In my discussions with IT teams, I am continually reminded that managing access to UNIX and Linux systems and doing so in a least cost manner is important for IT. IT must do more with less. There is a constant need to drive down the costs of operations and deliver more to the business. Failure…
Breaches, Breaches Everywhere, It Seems that Insiders Just Don’t Care!
Let’s take a look at a few of the breaches being reported this week alone – all at the hand of insiders. The Utah Department of Health reported that about 780,000 claims had been accessed by a hacker. Then they added that 280,000 people’s social security numbers were stolen and 500,000 people had less-sensitive personal…
Call it Genius. Our Smart Groups Make Vulnerability Management Simple for Security Teams
eEye R&D has been hard at work on optimizing how our enterprise clients can manage and schedule assessments within Retina CS. These efforts will increase the efficiency of how our clients perform assessments across their IT infrastructure – be it their traditional server or desktop assets, or new technologies like mobile, virtual and cloud.
The Key to Controlling Privileged User Activity? Centralize!
Those of you who follow my blogs know that sudo – and the issues it presents IT organizations – is one of my favorite discussion topics. I suppose that’s because there is no shortage of stories that surface on a regular basis on the problems that can arise with sudo, and I feel compelled to…
Insider Threats: What Can Be Done?
IT security tends to focus on securing the network from external attacks, but little attention is given to malicious activity and human error within the company. According to InformationWeek’s 2012 Strategic Survey, company employees pose just as much of a threat as cyber thieves. How can this be addressed? A recent article by Dark Reading…
eEye’s Patch Tuesday Assessment Now Available On Demand
Miss our live VEF webinar earlier this week? In case you did, I’ve put all of the content together for you below. Enjoy!
