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Driving Security with Blind Spots

January 31, 2012

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For those of us who commute in Southern California, driving isn't as always as cut and dry as it is in other locations. For example: say you're driving down the highway at 70 mph and you realize at the last minute you need to exit 3 lanes over. Obviously you know this requires more than just a look in the rear view mirror. Any sudden, unforeseen variables due to your driving (or someone else's) could result in an accident. One of the most often causes of these accidents (apart from last-second 3 lane sweeps) is the presence of "the blind spot". No matter which make or model of car you drive, you've got one. Just as it's important to consider your blind spot while driving, it's just as important to consider which devices make up your security blind spot. These can be anything from consumer devices legitimately on your network, to new cloud services, or legacy devices still on your network that span beyond your control. Traditional vulnerability assessment has a weakness just like your favorite car, it has no provisions for looking into the security blind spot. That is until now. eEye Digital Security has been promoting a concept of zero gap coverage for vulnerability assessment for the last year. With the new release of Retina CS 3.0, eEye has made advances in providing a vulnerability assessment vehicle that reduces your IT security blind spot to nearly zero, including devices that remotely connect to your network using agent based vulnerability assessment and mobile devices such as smartphones. These devices and new technology such as public and private computing, if not assessed, could be the fatal flaw that compromises even the most stringent of security environments. They represent the fast lane of technology and most times, a blind spot for many corporations. As an example, let's start with exploring mobile device vulnerability assessment. Ask yourself this question and see if you know the answer: "How many mobile devices (smartphones and tablets regardless of operating system) are connected to your email or network?". If you can answer that, ask yourself "what are the operating system versions and applications installed on each device?". If you can't answer either of those questions, you have just identified your first vulnerability blind spot within your environment. Below is a screen shot of how Retina CS 3.0 manages this new challenge and provides answers like no other solution on the market. Having to make safe and accurate moves is something that is required of us every single day - on and off the fast lane. As we quickly approach the release of Retina CS 3.0, I encourage you to stay tuned to the eEye blog. More details on how to manage your vulnerability blind spots will be published, and more tips and tricks on how to complete your visibility, with zero gap coverage, for all your IT resources.
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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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