Posts Tagged ‘infosec’
Do you want to do this the “hard” way?
Too often I see people working on what they can fix, what is easy. It’s like when I exercise, if I see progress I keep working at it but the problem areas (there are a lot of them) can wait until tomorrow. Over the past several years I see organizations doing a better job with…
Hackers on a Plane
If I were cast in a movie in which the plotline centered on a person on a plane maliciously controlling the entire 550MPH Pringles Can via smartphone, I’d demand the movie be called ‘Hackers on a Plane’, just so people knew what they were getting into when purchasing their matinee ticket. However, this seemingly far-fetched…
BeyondTrust Retina CS Earns Perfect 5 Star Rating by SC Magazine
We are happy to announce that for the 5th year in a row, SC Magazine has given a glowing review of Retina CS Threat Management Console with 5 stars across all its judging categories. SC Magazine tests all products in the most logical way: they vulnerability or pen tested them directly. Their “…results were excellent and…
Privilege Identity Management – A Help Desk Perspective
Help desk technicians within a company are the first line of defensive for a new project or system problem. Most of the time, they are informed and trained that users will be getting a new piece of security software. The solution, in this case, is called Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and is designed to manage authenticated permissions…
Patch Tuesday June 2012: RDP broken, again. Stuxnet TTF, again.
This is shaping up to be an interesting Patch Tuesday with critical vulnerabilities being released across a combination of operating system components and client applications. In total there are 7 Microsoft Security Bulletins covering 26 distinct vulnerabilities in this June 2012 Microsoft Patch Tuesday. More than half of these vulnerabilities are rated as being likely…
Retina Insight Pivot Grids, Custom Report Sharing on eEye Forums
Around this time last year I wrote a blog on the Pivot Grids within Retina Insight and how they allow a user to custom build historical reports based on almost every piece of data collected by Retina Insight. Recently I spoke with an analyst on this same topic and he was very pleased to see that we…
Work Smarter with Retina Insight Threat Analyzers
It keeps happening over and over again. I speak to a prospect, and they do not want yet another vulnerability report with pages and pages of assets and vulnerabilities. Every tool vulnerability assessment scanner can produce this with various degrees of customization and consolidation but a 1,000 page report for a few dozen assets doesn’t…
BeyondTrust and eEye Acquisition Announcement Now On Demand
There’s been a good amount of buzz surrounding our announcement that BeyondTrust acquired eEye Digital Security. We’re very excited about it and the opportunity the combined company has to provide an unmatched protection strategy for both the internal and external threats that target today’s enterprise. A couple of days ago, executives from both BeyondTrust and…
Missed it Live? Watch the “Big Security Data” Webinar with 451 Research & eEye Here.
Recently, 451 Research and eEye hosted the webinar “Turning Your Big Security Data into a Big Advantage”. This discussion was on the topic of “Big Data” and how it relates to today’s security landscape. Featuring 451′s Andrew Hay, we covered how today’s enterprise IT and security teams can best leverage their ‘big security data’ to make…
