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Advanced Architectures with the Retina Protection Agent

May 31, 2013

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One of the extended features of Retina CS is the Retina Protection Agent. This component is licensed with Retina and allows for users to assess hosts for vulnerabilities using a local scanning agent verses a network scan. This forgoes the need of a traditional SaaS or on-premise vulnerability assessment solution to perform a scan outside of the corporate campus. This requirement is very common among clients that need a PCI DSS Report or a traditional vulnerability assessment report for mobile Windows devices. A traditional authenticated network scan does not work because the local firewall would need to be disabled, remote file and print sharing exposed to the Internet, and the device powered on at a fixed IP address at the same time of the scan. All of these can lead to a complete disaster since the device defensive's are essentially turned off. There is really no way around this type of assessment even if you host an appliance in-house and try to scan backwards across a VPN connection. The results just do not come out well and a getting a reliable report from all device in scope becomes problematic. BeyondTrust has a solution for this problem. The architecture below is for the Retina Protection Agent and Retina CS using a hardened UVM50 appliance:

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Windows XP, 7, Vista, or 8 laptops are loaded with the Retina Protection Agent (which co-exists with your existing security solutions including anti-virus) and performs a local vulnerability assessment on a scheduled basis. The scan is non intrusive and does not impact the performance of the system. The results are encrypted and sent to the appliances within the corporate DMZ. From there, users can view complete details regarding the asset and generate reports for regulatory compliance and asset inventory. If the device is offline, the results are held and forwarded in a throttled fashion when a connection can be established. Audit updates can be sent directly from BeyondTrust or from the same appliance in order to make sure your critical reports are up to date. BeyondTrust has solved the problem of remote vulnerability assessment using agent technology. These agents can be used on desktops or servers; anywhere a scan of a Windows device would fail using a network vulnerability assessment technology. This overcomes STIG hardening, firewalls, disabled accounts, and even remote systems for complete vulnerability management. Our zero gap coverage for vulnerability assessment includes network scanners, agents, cloud resources, and even mobile devices. We can help provide the information you need to maintain regulatory compliance with your assets and users. Learn more!

Morey J. Haber, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at BeyondTrust

Morey J. Haber is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has authored four Apress books: Privileged Attack Vectors (2 Editions), Asset Attack Vectors, and Identity Attack Vectors. In 2018, Bomgar acquired BeyondTrust and retained the BeyondTrust name. He originally joined BeyondTrust in 2012 as a part of the eEye Digital Security acquisition. Morey currently oversees BeyondTrust strategy for privileged access management and remote access solutions. In 2004, he joined eEye as Director of Security Engineering and was responsible for strategic business discussions and vulnerability management architectures in Fortune 500 clients. Prior to eEye, he was Development Manager for Computer Associates, Inc. (CA), responsible for new product beta cycles and named customer accounts. He began his career as Reliability and Maintainability Engineer for a government contractor building flight and training simulators. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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