How IOC Sharing Will Help Us Build a More Secure Healthcare Sector

At Trend Micro we work hard every day to reduce the risk posed by cyber attacks from hacktavists, transnational cybercriminals, and cyber espionage groups. Nowhere is this more pertinent than in the healthcare industry, where everything from data breaches to ransomware attacks impacting medical...

Live Dashboards for Demonstrating Remediation Progress

Is your security team working on the right things to make your organization safer today? How can you prove it with data? Knowing Versus Doing Knowing your threat exposure is only half the picture. The other half is knowing which actions to take with your vulnerability management solution to secur...

Faraday v2.5 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time, letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time...

Vulnerability Management Tips for the Shadow Brokers Leaked Exploits

Rebekah Brown and the Rapid7 team have delivered a spot-on breakdown of the recent Shadow Brokers exploit and tool release. Before you read any further, if you havent done so already, please read her post. Its probably not the only post youve read on this topic, but it is cogent, well-constructed...

Modern Network Coverage and Container Security in InsightVM

For a long time, the concept of "infrastructure" remained relatively unchanged: Firewalls, routers, servers, desktops, and so on make up the majority of your network. Yet over the last few years, the tides have begun to shift. Virtualization is now ubiquitous, giving employees tremendous leeway i...

No More Tears: WannaCry Highlights Importance of Prompt Vulnerability Detection, Remediation

It didn’t have to happen. That’s the simple yet profound lesson from WannaCry’s ransomware rampage that has infected 300,000-plus systems in more than 150 countries, disrupting critical operations across industries, including healthcare, government, transportation and finance. If vulnerable syste...

EternalBlue: Metasploit Module for MS17-010

This week's release of Metasploit includes a scanner and exploit module for the EternalBlue vulnerability, which made headlines a couple of weeks ago when hacking group, the Shadow Brokers, disclosed a trove of alleged NSA exploits. Included among them, EternalBlue, exploits MS17-010, a Windows S...

Major Update of Acunetix Online

Acunetix Online has undergone a mammoth update, now enjoying all the features and benefits found in Acunetix On Premise, including: Integrated vulnerability management, greater manageability of threats and targets and the integration of popular WAFs and Issue Tracking systems. Acunetix Online als...

Qualys Cloud Suite 8.10 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Suite, version 8.10, includes new capabilities and improvements to for VM, PC and shared platform improvements: Authentication Vault integration with BeyondTrust Mandate-Based reporting for Policy Compliance to simplify reporting against multiple mandates and...

Exploitable Vulnerabilities: A Metasploit-Vulnerability Management Love Story

Integrating InsightVM or Nexpose Rapid7's vulnerability management solutions with Metasploit our penetration testing solution is a lot like Cupid playing "matchmaker" with vulnerabilities and exploit modules. When a vulnerability scan is imported into Metasploit, many things happen under the hood...

WannaCry and the Executive Order

Last week, The White House released its long awaited Executive Order EO, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, ironically enough during the same week we experienced the largest single ransomware attack that, by some estimates, has affected more than...

How to Rapidly Identify Assets at Risk to WannaCry Ransomware and ETERNALBLUE Exploit

In what may be the first public weaponizing of April's Shadow Brokers dump of NSA exploits, a ransomware attack has crippled IT systems globally and disrupted operations at major organizations, including patient services at UK hospitals. About 80,000 infections have been detected in about 100...

WannaCry about Vulnerability Management

Nearly all mainstream media wrote today about massive ransomware attacks around the world: 16 medical institutions in UK, strong rumours that huge companies in Russia, and even Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs suffered a damage. At this moment Kaspersky recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 74...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: The CNA or individual who requested this candidate did not associate it with any vulnerability during 2016. Notes: none...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: The CNA or individual who requested this candidate did not associate it with any vulnerability during 2016. Notes: none...

Discovery of assets in Active Directory

Many security teams work in a world that they can't fully see, let alone control. It can be difficult to know how to make meaningful progress in your vulnerability management program when simply maintaining visibility can be a struggle. One way to get some leverage is to make wise use of asset...

Vulnerability Quadrants

Hi everyone! Today I would like talk about software vulnerabilities. How to find really interesting vulnerabilities in the overall CVE flow. And how to do it automatically. First of all, let's talk why we may ever need to analyze software vulnerabilities? How people usually do their Vulnerability...

Simple Vulnerability Remediation Collaboration with InsightVM

Many security groups today use ticketing systems that were originally designed for IT or developers, and are usually ill-suited to their vulnerability management needs. Even more commonly, teams simply rely on spreadsheets and unwieldy reports. On the other end of the spectrum, some security team...

My comments on Forrester’s “Vulnerability Management vendor landscape 2017”

A top consulting company, Forrester Research, recently published report "Vendor Landscape: Vulnerability Management, 2017". You can read for free by filling a small form on Tenable web site. What's interesting in this document? First of all, Josh Zelonis and co-authors presented their version of ...

CISO Forum 2017

Last week I have attended CISO Forum 2017 in Moscow. I was talking there about "Vulnerability Quadrants: automated hot topic detection in public vulnerability CVE flow". Today I want to share my impressions about the forum itself. To be short, I liked it very much. Both exhibition and...