These audits are usually performed via the Internet, from partner networks, and remote offices using hacking techniques or commercially available
vulnerability assessment tools.
Through a partnership with SecurityFocus, the new VPA offering combines
vulnerability information feeds from SecurityFocus'
Vulnerability Database, the world's largest, most comprehensive and technically complete database, with data gleaned from NETSEC's 24/7 monitoring facility, attack and penetration labs, and
vulnerability assessments, providing corporations with the most complete security advisory service available today.
The Frost & Sullivan research points to the increasing number of vulnerabilities and the shrinking window between
vulnerability and exploit.
The busiest month in 2006 for
vulnerability disclosure was June, while the busiest week was the week before Thanksgiving and the most popular day of the week to disclose vulnerabilities was Tuesday.
Only if both conditions are true will the tool report the existence of the corresponding
vulnerability.
Determina's world-class
vulnerability research team continuously tracks and evaluates attacks and software vulnerabilities.
7 percent in last year's IDC numbers), Watchfire tops the application
vulnerability assessment software sub-category for the second year in a row, further widening the market share gap between its closest competitor by 35 percent.
The update removes the
vulnerability by modifying the way that Outlook validates the length of an .
For more information about Tenable's Passive
Vulnerability Scanner please visit: http://www.
From anti-virus to iTunes, these non-Microsoft desktop applications, many of which IT is not even aware of, will become the enterprise's biggest point of
vulnerability very, very quickly.
Digital Bond has also identified numerous SCADA application and protocol vulnerabilities, including the
vulnerability disclosed in US-CERT's first SCADA related
vulnerability note.
A zero day
vulnerability is one that is unknown or one that has been publicly disclosed without a corresponding patch.
