Special Edition of Retina® Network Security Scanner incorporates antivirus deployment detection
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) February 17, 2004 — eEye Digital Security, a leading developer of enterprise security software solutions, today announced the release of it’s Retina® Antivirus Scanning Utility, allowing channel partners to conduct high level assessments of their clients’ network vulnerabilities and audit for existing antivirus installations. The Retina Antivirus Scanning Utility is based on eEye’s award-winning Retina Network Security Scanner and allows eEye partners to address antivirus and vulnerability assessment issues quickly and precisely. This tool offers recommendations and a course of action for ongoing proactive threat management in addition to antivirus asset discovery.
"Vulnerability assessment has clearly become a requirement for making sure networks are secure," said Ramesh, chief security architect at Razorwire Security. "As a channel partner of eEye Digital Security, we are excited about this Retina Special Edition. Not only does this show clients our commitment to proactive security, but it also demonstrates the value of vulnerability assessment and antivirus asset discovery."
Vulnerability assessment has become one of the key elements of total network protection, complementing security solutions such as antivirus, making this tool a critical weapon in the battle against malicious hack attacks, worms and viruses. Channel partners can run the Retina Antivirus Scanning Utility to rapidly assess a client’s network infrastructure, develop a benchmark of current network security stature and look at recommendations to improve security.
"We have always seen vulnerability assessment as a key component of effective network protection and complementary with antivirus solutions," said Firas Raouf, chief operating officer, eEye Digital Security. “eEye’s Retina Antivirus Scanning Utility will be a valuable tool for channel partners looking to evaluate antivirus assets resident throughout a clients’ infrastructure.”
The full version of Retina Network Security Scanner already checks for antivirus assets. For more information on Retina, please visit
http://www.eeye.com/html/Products/Retina/index.html.
For more information on Retina Antivirus Scanning Utility, visit
www.eeye.com/html/Partners/RetinaAV/index.html.
About eEye Digital Security
eEye Digital Security® is pioneering a new class of security products:integrated threat management. This next-generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevents intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources, from endpoints to network assets to web sites and web applications, all while providing a centralized point of security management and network visibility.eEye’s research team is consistently the first to identify new threats in the wild, and our products leverage that research to deliver on the goal of making network security as easy to use and reliable as networking itself. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Orange County, California, eEye Digital Security protects more than 9,000 corporate and government organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com
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