Penetration Testing Product CORE IMPACT now Integrates Results from Retina Network Security Scanner
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) February 15, 2005 — Core Security Technologies, provider of CORE IMPACT, the first-to-market penetration testing product for assessing specific information security risks, and eEye Digital Security®, a leading network security software company enabling businesses to protect and manage their network infrastructure, today announced the integration of their products, CORE IMPACT and Retina® Network Security Scanner. This effort will help customers better secure their networks by enabling them to seamlessly integrate their vulnerability scanning and penetration testing activities.
"Until now, our customers who use Retina for vulnerability scanning manually integrated their results directly in CORE IMPACT," said Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies. "Now the quality output from their Retina scans can be automatically integrated into CORE IMPACT as the starting point for their penetration tests."
With the new Retina integration, users can scan their network against the most comprehensive vulnerability database, and then seamlessly import those results into CORE IMPACT. With IMPACT they can then safely exploit those same vulnerabilities, replicating the kinds of access an intruder could achieve, thereby proving the actual paths of attack that must be eliminated.
"We are continually striving to meet the evolving needs of our customers," said Marc Maiffret, Chief Hacking Officer at eEye Digital Security. "Working with partners such as Core Security Technologies helps ensure our customers are able to maximize their Retina scanners to meet their specific organizational needs, adding even greater value for our users."
About CORE IMPACT
CORE IMPACT makes it easy, efficient and cost-effective for any security professional or network administrator to perform a penetration test. With just a point and click, CORE IMPACT allows a user to safely exploit vulnerabilities within a network, replicating the kind of access an intruder could achieve. By exploiting these vulnerabilities and the relationships that exist among network components, CORE IMPACT helps users intelligently prioritize remediation efforts, validate the security of vital information stored on critical severs, and accurately evaluate the effectiveness of IDS, IPS and other deployed or considered security technologies.
CORE IMPACT features the Rapid Penetration Test (RPT), an industry first step-by-step automation of the penetration testing process. From the initial information-gathering phase to production of the final report, the penetration testing steps within CORE IMPACT can be run completely autonomously.
About Retina Network Security Scanner
Retina Network Security Scanner identifies known security vulnerabilities and assists in prioritizing threats for remediation. Featuring the fastest, most accurate, and non-intrusive scanning, as well as the industry's most comprehensive vulnerability database, users are able to secure their networks against even the most recent of discovered vulnerabilities.
Retina leverages the expertise of the renowned eEye Research Team, incorporating the most up-to-date vulnerabilities database. Retina can be set to automatically download updates at the beginning of each session, enabling security professionals to proactively secure their networks against the most critical and relevant vulnerabilities. Security professionals can customize Retina by writing their own customized audits to enforce internal security policies to verify such items as anti-virus deployments, approved machine configurations and application version control. Many enterprises also use eEye's Retina Network Security Scanner in conjunction with eEye's REM Security Management Console as a part of the Retina Enterprise Suite.
About Core Security Technologies
Core Security Technologies develops strategic security solutions for Fortune 1000 corporations, government agencies and military organizations. The company offers information security software and services designed to help customers easily and efficiently assess their specific information security risks. The company’s penetration testing software products are complimented by consulting services that include penetration testing, software security auditing, and related training. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Core Security Technologies can be reached at 617-399-6980 or on the Web at http://www.coresecurity.com.
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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