Posts Tagged ‘security’
Session Monitoring Provides Context Aware Security for Windows
The Windows world is about to get a long overdue lesson from Unix. Privilege Identity Management does not stop at just logging that an application gets launched with elevated privileges; administrators need to know what the user does with that application, as well. Did they use the program within the guidelines of company policy or…
BeyondTrust Performs Vulnerability Assessment of VMware Solutions Better Than Anyone Else!
Retina from BeyondTrust performs vulnerability assessment of VMware solutions so incredibly, extremely, amazingly much better than anyone else…. Ok, I’m in product management and maybe marketing isn’t my forte, but let me explain to you in all seriousness why I think we’ve done something pretty special here. First, let me pose some real world questions…
Data Discovery using the Retina Network Security Scanner
One of the challenges facing every organization is locating where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) resides on workstations and servers. This data, by nature, is sensitive. However, if this data is not properly being tracked, secured, or even encrypted it can result in data loss. This type of data loss can result in a violation of…
CNBC Interview Featuring our CTO: Security Takes a Backseat in Tech
Marc Maiffret, our CTO, was interviewed earlier today in the UK on CNBC. He tells CNBC most aspects of society are being built around technology and most companies aren’t building technology with security in mind. In the interview, Marc states: “Most aspects of society today are being built around technology from every facet. If you…
A Brief Overview of Darkleech
A piece of malware, Darkleech, has been making the news rounds as of late. This one targets web servers, specifically Apache 2.2.2 and above. Instead of merely compromising a web server and uploading malicious content to be served to unsuspecting victims, Darkleech goes a step further by installing a special module that is loaded by…
Vendor-Disclosed Zero Days and Targeted Trojans
Here at BeyondTrust, we are constantly keeping an eye on the underground parts of the internet, monitoring for things like zero day vulnerabilities and how malware authors are exploiting vulnerabilities in the wild. As such, we wanted to keep you apprised of a vulnerability that was addressed within VMware ESXi 5.0. A patch was released…
Mandiant APT1 report, some unanswered questions.
For the last several years there has been an increasing number of accusations being made against China and its military as being behind the systematic targeting of organizations throughout the world in a sophisticated hacking campaign to steal data and access to further China’s economic, military and social agendas. These accusations come from a mass…
United States Health Department Updates HIPAA Guidelines
It comes as no surprise to information technology security professionals that data leaks and privacy issues can occur at virtually any level of an organization including business associates, contractors, subs-contractors and outsourced firms like payroll and billing. With this, it is has been a long time coming that the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Vulnerability and Identity Management (VIM) Fusion
Why BeyondTrust? BeyondTrust is a unique company in the security industry that has created the first and only fusion of Vulnerability and Identity Management (VIM). While the industry has spent over a decade refining the process of vulnerability identification and reporting using standards like OVAL and CVE, BeyondTrust has taken the leadership position in understanding what risk…
Java Zero Day Exploit – Java 7 Not the Answer
A new Java zero-day vulnerability has been seen exploiting hundreds of thousands of machines. This 0day has already been incorporated into Cool Exploit Kit and Blackhole, in addition to Nuclear Pack and Redkit. This vulnerability affects Java 7 versions up to and including the current version of Java, 7u10. It should be noted that while…
