Tenable Network Security – 16 May 2012: Antivirus Software Check: This report template focuses on antivirus software that isn’t up-to-date or isn’t functioning properly. It relies on Nessus plugin 16193, Antivirus Software Check, and its many dependent antivirus detection plugins which are developed and maintained by the Tenable Research Team.
The official blog from Satisnet Ltd
May
16
2012
New SecurityCenter Nessus anti-virus agent report template now available
May
16
2012
AirWatch Highlights MDM in a Post-PC Era
TCMnet – 8 March 2012: Yesterday Apple CEO Tim Cook showed a chart of how the iPad alone is selling more units than PCs from any other individual vendor. This is an amazing achievement when you consider the iPad is a few years old and that HP swallowed up Compaq making it the largest vendor in the PC market. Of course with so much device proliferation the question of mobile device management or MDM has to rear its head. As this market is so crucial I am happy I had a chance to sit with Alan Dabbiere the charismatic Chairman of MDM leader Airwatch at MWC 2012.
May
15
2012
AirWatch – Securing Mobile Working
I’ve had a chance to play with this MDM solution and quite like it from the first impressions. The product itself is simple and straightforward and easy to use. With the growing number mobile devices in our day to day life, it has also become an integral part in many organisations. The product provides an easy way to manage the mobile devices in the organization, whether it is devices that the company provides to their employees or the personal devices the users bring in.
May
15
2012
Not Just for CIOs – The Role of IT is Changing Too
Palo Alto Networks Blog – 14 May 2012: It’s a little late, but I wanted to comment on a great opinion piece by Nicholas Evans in Computerworld last week.
May
11
2012
IBM Study Reveals Critical Shift in the Role of Chief Information Security Executives Globally
IBM Security Press Release, 11 May 2012: Analysis of 130+ interviews presents a new class of security chiefs; CISO role follows the evolution of CIO and CFO with more strategic organisational responsibilities: A new IBM study reveals a clear evolution in information security organizations and their leaders with 25 percent of security chiefs surveyed shifting from a technology focus to strategic business leadership role.
May
11
2012
Five Reasons ExtraHop Beats the Competition at Monitoring Citrix VDI
ExtraHop Blog – 11 May 2012: This week ExtraHop announced new monitoring capabilities for Citrix VDI deployments, developed using the latest protocol specifications from Citrix and verified as Citrix Ready for both XenDesktop and XenApp.
May
10
2012
Tripwire Enterprise Announce the Powerful Pairing for Incident Detection
Tripwire Enterprise, 9 May 2012: ArcSight ESM is the premier SIEM solution in an increasingly threatening world. Tripwire Enterprise is the authority on achieving and maintaining the “known and trusted” state for information security systems, across all platforms and physical and virtual infrastructures.
May
08
2012
Palo Alto next-gen firewall stacks up well
Network World, 7 May 2012: Palo Alto Networks has bet everything on being a next-generation firewall. Without the next-generation hook, Palo Alto has little chance at breaking into the established world of firewalls, and they’ve done a good job at defining the category on their own terms.
May
08
2012
Palo Alto Networks Video Broadcast: 60 minutes with Nir Zuk
Coming to Grips with Consumerisation: How or why is consumerisation happening is almost irrelevant. All that really matters is how to deal with it. Today, it’s users rather than IT departments that are choosing the laptops, smart phones and tablets that they want to use.
May
08
2012
ExtraHop Networks Builds First-Ever Agentless Performance Monitoring Solution for Citrix Desktop Virtualisation
ExtraHop Press Release – 7 May 2012: ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualization Deployments.