Posts Tagged ‘vulnerability assessment’
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…
Scanning Problems through a Firewall
Vulnerability assessment scanning through a network or host-based firewall can create an unknown level of complexity, uncertainty into the quality of scan results, and a change control process that essentially decreases the security posture of the network and / or host in order to perform a vulnerability assessment scan.
Prioritizing Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation Steps: A New Users Guide to Getting Started – Part 2
The odd part about writing weekly blogs is the amount of discussions that start internally, with clients directly, and sometimes through straight blog comments. After writing “A New Users Guide to Getting Started” article, my team indicated several really good ideas for a Part II follow-up blog. Simply, just getting started with vulnerability management is not enough….
Prioritizing Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation Steps: A New Users Guide to Getting Started – Part 1
New users to vulnerability assessment often ask the same question: “How do I get started”? While this may sound incredibly generic for a security engineer, many companies have never had a vulnerability management process in place and are trying to comprehend the problems of missing patches, remediation prioritization, and risk acceptance. As a basic recommendation,…
Referential Integrity When Performing a Vulnerability Assessment
James Thurber wrote back in 1959, “When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.” The critical aspect of his statement is based on equality. When using multiple distributed applications, regardless of technology, having the same version on all the systems is sometimes…
PCI DSS 2.0
Yes its PCI time again. PCI DSS 2.0 has just completed final review and is expected to come out next month. As indicated in the summary of changes document , there are no major changes expected. Refinements to better align standards, provide clarifications, increase merchant flexibility, and additional guidance on specific technologies including virtualization and…
