Foundstone Supports New SANS/FBI List of 20 Most Exploited Security Vulnerabilities.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MISSION VIEJO Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2003 Company Expands Features in Response to Customer Demand; Adds Executive Dashboard and Integrated SANS Filtering Security Metrics Foundstone Inc., experts in strategic security, today announced that Foundstone Enterprise(TM) vulnerability management software has expanded its SANS/FBI Top 20 capabilities to support the current version of the widely adopted list. In a related announcement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) was an inter-departmental centre of the UK government. Set up in 1999. The role of NISCC (pronounced "nicey") was to minimise the risk to the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) from electronic attack. (NISCC NISCC National Infrastructure Security Co-Ordination Centre (UK) ), and the Canadian Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection Department of Defense (DOD) program to identify and protect assets critical to the Defense Transportation System. Loss of a critical asset would result in failure to support the mission of a combatant commander. and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP OCIPEP Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (Canada) ), along with the SANS Institute The SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Networking, and Security) is a trade name owned by the for-profit Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies. SANS provides computer security training, professional certification, and a research archive. today released their new list of vulnerabilities that are most commonly exploited by hackers. With SANS/FBI Top 20 features in Foundstone Enterprise, organizations can examine every system and analyze results exclusively for the most critical vulnerabilities found across the industry. This capability allows IT departments to focus on high-priority vulnerabilities first - providing a time-efficient approach to network security. Foundstone customers find the Executive Dashboard feature of Foundstone Enterprise especially helpful because it provides integrated filtering by SANS/FBI Top 20 vulnerabilities. The Executive Dashboard offers managers a "big picture" view of organizational risk, combining global asset value and vulnerability information into a series of graphical, interactive charts, and allows them to compare regions, pinpoint infrastructure trouble areas and identify vulnerability patterns. "Network security is no longer a reactive process. To ensure workplace continuity, organizations must be proactive about finding and fixing known weaknesses in their networks, starting with the SANS/FBI Top 20," said Stuart McClure, president and chief technology officer for Foundstone. "Foundstone is built on the premise that scanning is only one step in securing the enterprise - asset prioritization, remediation and measurement are also key factors to improving security posture and maximizing network uptime." Demonstrating its commitment to government agencies, Foundstone is pursuing Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian certification and is in the process of adding support for the Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA IAVA Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America IAVA International Academy of the Visual Arts IAVA Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert IAVA International Association of Virtual Assistants IAVA Information Assurance & Vulnerability Assessment ) standard to Foundstone Enterprise software. A free 21-day offer is available for Foundstone's single-license software to test and report on the SANS/FBI Top 20 and more. The software can be downloaded at www.foundstone.com/products/security_offers.htm. About Foundstone Foundstone(R) Inc., a leading expert in strategic security, offers a unique combination of software, services, and education to help organizations continuously and measurably protect the most important assets from the most critical threats. Through a strategic approach to security, Foundstone identifies and implements the right balance of technology, people, and process to manage digital risk and leverage security investments more effectively. The company has one of the most dominant security talent pools ever assembled, and has authored twenty books, including the best-seller Hacking Exposed. Foundstone customers include six of the top 11 Fortune companies and many U.S. government agencies. The company is headquartered in Orange County, Calif., and has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington, Seattle and Singapore. For more information about Foundstone, visit www.foundstone.com, or call 877.91.FOUND within the U.S, and 949.297.5600 outside the U.S. Note to Editors: Foundstone is a trademark of Foundstone Inc. All other companies, brand names or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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