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Blink Personal 4.5.1 (Windows)

Designed for personal, student, and home office use, Blink Personal Edition is the only solution that provides consumers with complete PC security for free. Blink Personal Edition is an internet security solution that protects users' systems and sensitive data from viruses, spyware, identity theft, malicious web sites, and other attacks...

Tags: eEye Digital Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Microsoft Windows, Internet Security, Blink Personal Edition, Internet, Security, Identity Theft, Network Security, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Automated Vulnerability Assessments for SAP NetWeaver: Protecting Your Business Processes and ReducingAudit Costs

Many successful companies rely on SAP business solutions to automate and manage their business processes, making the SAP systems the central IT solution to store company-critical information and to drive business activity. For many businesses, a problem with the stability of the SAP environment or a leak of company-confidential data...

Tags: Business Process, SAP NetWeaver, Vulnerability Assessment, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software

White papers 2009-05-22

Vulnerability Assessment and Change Audit System

Identifying database vulnerabilities such as unpatched systems and misconfigured privileges - and preventing unauthorized changes - enables organizations to proactively address a range of internal and external threats, while addressing SOX and PCI compliance requirements. The attendee of this webcast learn about Guardium 7's Vulnerability Assessment VA scanning module and...

Tags: Guardium, Audit, Vulnerability Assessment, Security, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-01-01

OpenVAS emerges as free alternative to Nessus

A new open-source project called OpenVAS has emerged to take the place of Nessus, the popular vulnerability assessment system that closed its source a few years ago. The first stable version of OpenVAS, which is a fork of Nessus 2.2, was released this week featuring a server,...

Tags: Network, Vulnerability Assessment, OpenVAS, OpenVAS-Client, Tests, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-15

The Rise of Security Testing: Why Comprehensive Security Testing Is Critical to Proactive IT Risk Management

This paper will outline the increasing recognition of comprehensive security testing as a best practice for addressing issues of organizational risk related to vulnerability assessment and remediation planning, identification and validation of exposure to data breaches, assessment of defense mechanisms and policies, and maintenance of regulatory compliance. It is meant...

Tags: Information Technology, Vulnerability Assessment, Core Security Technologies, Security

White papers 2008-07-31

Adelphi University Supports a Spirit of Education Openness With Vulnerability Assessment

Adelphi University has a long history as a liberal arts institution. One of their challenges is to balance the benefits of collaboration and knowledge sharing with the need for data security. The task has only grown more challenging as student's access communication applications such as YouTube and MySpace, download programs...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Adelphi University, Vulnerability Assessment, Security

Case studies 2008-07-01

Vulnerability Assessment Plus Web Application Firewall (VA+WAF)

New technology developed by WhiteHat Security and F5 Networks enables organizations to immediately mitigate discovered vulnerabilities using a web application firewall. WhiteHat's Sentinel service provides continuous assessments of web applications for vulnerabilities. Once detected and validated by WhiteHat, detailed information about these vulnerabilities are passed to the F5 BIG-IP Application...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Vulnerability, Web Application, Vulnerability Assessment, Application Firewall, WhiteHat, Attack Technique, Firewalls, Cloud Computing, Security, Networking

White papers 2008-06-01

Security From the Cloud: Remote Vulnerability Scanning

This white paper describes advantages of using a remote Vulnerability Scanning Service that is contained within the "Cloud". A service that is available from anywhere by any systems fully contained as a remote entity and managed by a third party. Using Open Source Vulnerability Analysis tools the Security from the...

Tags: Vulnerability, Vulnerability Assessment, Security

White papers 2008-04-01

Vulnerability Assessment: The Right Tools to Protect Your Critical Data

Vulnerability Assessment VA has become one of the hottest fields within the computer security market. VA tools are designed to detect and report on security holes within various software applications, allowing organizations to take corrective actions before a devastating attack occurs. Due to the reduction in "time to exploit" once...

Tags: Vulnerability Assessment, Tool, Vulnerability Assessment Tool, Security

White papers 2007-10-18

Alert Logic Provides on Demand Protection for Dyrand Systems

As rapidly growing businesses in the Vancouver area, Dyrand Systems provides network management services to customers from coast to coast in Canada as well as major metropolitan areas across the United States. They were looking for a new security service to complement their existing portfolio, specifically, they wanted a vulnerability...

Tags: Network, Vulnerability Assessment, Alert Logic, Security, Networking

Case studies 2007-03-01

Automated Vulnerability Detection System

Vulnerability assessments have been recently identified, by independent market research, as one of the most sought after managed security outsourcing services. As with the outsourcing of any business function, the final decision is based on whether or not a trusted partner can do the job more efficiently, cheaper, and perhaps...

Tags: Managed Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2006-08-16

Managing WLAN Risks With Vulnerability Assessment

Many options are available to safeguard wireless LANs, but which security measures a person's company deploys, and how can he tell whether his network is sufficiently hardened against 802.11 and 802.1X attacks? This paper describes an iterative process for business risk analysis, vulnerability identification, and threat remediation. It explains how...

Tags: AirMagnet Inc., WLAN, Vulnerability Assessment, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Networking

White papers 2005-10-01

SecureCentral ScanFi 4.0 (Windows)

ScanFi is a Web-based vulnerability assessment scanner for detecting and assessing network vulnerabilities across heterogeneous networks. ScanFi discovers, scans, reports, and supports vulnerability remediation. It features both scheduled and on-demand vulnerability scanning capabilities, based on comprehensive vulnerability database collated from multiple sources and vendors that is constantly kept up-to-date.

Tags: Network, Vulnerability, On-demand, Vulnerability Assessment, Microsoft Windows, AdventNet Inc., ScanFi, Scanners, Cloud Computing, Security, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2005-08-04

Internet Scanner 7.0 Service Pack 2 (Windows)

The Internet Scanner vulnerability assessment application provides the foundation for effective network security for your business. Internet Scanner minimizes your risk by identifying the security holes, or vulnerabilities, in your network so you can protect them before an attack occurs.Internet Scanner can identify more than 1,300 types of networked devices...

Tags: Network, Internet Security Systems Inc., Vulnerability Assessment, Microsoft Windows, Internet Scanner, Internet Scanner Vulnerability Assessment Application, Internet, Security, Networking

Software downloads 2005-06-20

Web-Based Vulnerability Assessment - Stronger Network Security Through Automated Audits

Vulnerability Assessment VA is quickly becoming the "fourth" pillar of security, contributing additional strength to firewalls, antivirus software, and Intrusion Detection. This paper describes the ways in which VA helps fortify network security, discusses the types of VA, including automated security audits, and outlines the strengths and weakness of each...

Tags: Web, Audit, Network, Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment, WatchGuard Technologies, Security

White papers 2003-09-01

Enterprise Vulnerability Assessment Selection Criteria

Selecting the best security technology to incorporate into an enterprise-wide process is a daunting challenge. In selecting an enterprise vulnerability assessment solution, there are several key criteria that must be properly weighed and considered. This paper identifies the most common technology-related decision criteria for enterprise-wide...

Tags: eEye Digital Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Security

White papers 2003-04-01

MSDN Webcast: Testing Methodologies for Automated Web Application Vulnerability Scanners (Level 200)

There is more to conducting an automated Web application vulnerability assessment than "point and shoot". Automated Web application vulnerability scanners are not as automated as their vendors would lead us to believe. This webcast will examine various strategies to get the most out of a vulnerability assessment tool. The topics...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Vulnerability, Web Application, Vulnerability Assessment, Scanners, Security, Hardware, Peripherals

Webcasts

PwC Integrates AppScan Into Threat and Vulnerability Practice Enabling Rapid Application Security

PwC had growing demand from its clients to expand their risk assessment practice into web application vulnerability assessments and wanted an automated solution that would enable them to deliver its service efficiently. PwC adopted AppScan software shortly after its commercial release in mid-2000. AppScan enables quick, accurate, flexible and efficient...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Web Application, Watchfire, Vulnerability Assessment, Application Security, AppScan, Cloud Computing, Security

Case studies

Homeland Security: Risk Assessment - Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment

In 2000, the University of Washington UW was invited by FEMA to participate in the Disaster Resistant University Project DRU, along with the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University, Miami University, University of North Carolina/Wilmington, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The overall goal after identifying risks, and assessing vulnerabilities...

Tags: Risk Assessment, University Of California At Berkeley, Vulnerability Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Security, Strategy, Government, Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...

Tags: Government, Crowdsourcing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-09