Secunia Press Release – 18 April 2013: The Secunia Country Reports provides insight into software security - more specifically, how much vulnerable software is present on private PCs in a number of different countries.… Read this post »
Patch management using Shavlik supports agentless and agents based scans. Agentless scans and deployment is preferred by most. However, in places where you can’t perform agentless scan due to restriction of opening certain ports and starting certain services, agents can … Read this post »
Secunia Press Release – 14 March 2013: 86% of vulnerabilities discovered in the most popular 50 programs in 2012 were in non-Microsoft (or “third-party”) programs. The result was published today in the Secunia Vulnerability Review 2013. Secunia is a leading … Read this post »
Morton Stengaard, Director, Product Management & Quality Assurance, Secunia, 14 March 2013: The Secunia Vulnerability Review 2013, published today, documents that patching is as important as ever, and that non-Microsoft (third-party) programs pose one of the largest threats to IT infrastructures … Read this post »
Patching from a cloud interface? Secunia have just released their XSI into the world as ‘Secunia SmallBusiness’ – it’s free for up to 5 machines but is designed to provide cover for up to 50 machines.… Read this post »
Secunia Press Release – 25 February 2013: Secunia, the leading provider of IT security solutions that enable businesses and private individuals to manage and control vulnerability threats, today announced the availability of Secunia SmallBusiness (public beta). Secunia SmallBusiness is an … Read this post »
When demoing Secunia CSI, I have seen quite a few hidden gem’s which can prove useful or handy when looking at patching and focusing on business critical applications.… Read this post »
We recently had a case where a customers IS team who use VMware vCenter Protect to patch Microsoft servers with both Microsoft and 3rd-party patches had issues with Microsoft Update offering other admins updates to install during business … Read this post »
One of the many nice features in Secunia CSI (Corporate Software Inspector) is the capability of detecting End of Life products, these products are no longer marketed or sold and the Vendors may alsobe limiting or ending support for them.… Read this post »
The leading Patch Management company in the UK, Satisnet have now partnered with Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management company Secunia. See our blog post announcing this). Secunia CSI uses a company’s existing software deployment/update tools, namely WSUS/SCCM to extend … Read this post »
Secunia Press Release – 15 January 2013: Secunia, the leading provider of IT security solutions that enable businesses and private individuals to manage and control vulnerability threats, today announced that the company is partnering with IT security reseller Satisnet.… Read this post »
Many organisations have recognised the need for patching for some time and have implemented a process for taking care of this. WSUS is free, which is a compelling argument for management but WSUS has a failing as a comprehensive patch … Read this post »
PSI is a free patch scanning tool which can communicate to a Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) console. I have been looking into the free ‘Secunia PSI’ patching tool and how it interacts with the ‘Secunia CSI*’ product. Secunia Personal Software Inspector … Read this post »
Tenable Blog – 16 October 2012: Nessus and SecurityCenter now support Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM) as a patch management platform in which patch-level information can be extracted for given scan targets.… Read this post »
This time in September is a different mixed bag of feelings for adults and children alike. Adults are happy that they finally can send their children back to school after a long summer holiday, and children are sad that their … Read this post »
Lumension Blog – 13 August 2012: It’s been said that there are only two types of companies left in the world: those who know they’ve been hacked and those who don’t. We have to hope that there’s still a third … Read this post »
MS have been notified of a vulnerability in Windows Update which can help the phenomenon known as ‘Flame’ spread. Windows Update is to be hardened.. This is described further in: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/06/06/security-advisory-2718704-collision-attack-details-wu-update-rollout.aspx… Read this post »
Microsoft has released 7 new security bulletins. VMware is currently testing these patches and will release updated XML files shortly.… Read this post »
Tenable Press Release – 6 December 2011
Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in Unified Security Monitoring (USM), announced today … Read this post »
Last week, a prospective customer had a requirement to scan for missing patches across his network but on condition that registry services wouldn’t be enabled at all times; it could only be started during the scan and the whole process