eEye Customers with Blink Already Protected Against Flaws
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) March 2, 2005 — eEye Digital Security®, a leading network security software company enabling businesses to protect and manage their network infrastructure, today released a detailed advisory to alert its customers and security administrators worldwide of newly discovered critical security vulnerabilities within Computer Associates' (NYSE:CA) License Management software.
These vulnerabilities enable an attacker to remotely execute code within the SYSTEM context, thus allowing them to take complete control of an affected system. The Computer Associates License Management software allows for the remote management and tracking of software licenses. Those organizations that have deployed Blink, eEye's award-winning endpoint security software, are already protected from these vulnerabilities and can postpone patching to regularly scheduled maintenance cycles.
"It is absolutely imperative that administrators scan their networks to identity vulnerable systems and take corrective actions," said Firas Raouf, chief operating officer of eEye Digital Security. "The remotely executable nature of this threat, combined with the broad array of platforms it affects, makes this a high priority for enterprises."
For further information and a technical description of these vulnerabilities, as well as analysis, please visit: http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20050302.html.
About Blink
Designed to be implemented on individual assets such as servers, PCs and laptops, Blink is the first endpoint product to combine multiple layers of security technologies to protect enterprises from zero-day attacks that leverage yet unknown vulnerabilities within enterprise networks. This comprehensive security solution allows enterprises to defer patching vulnerable machines until regularly scheduled maintenance cycles, thereby saving millions of dollars in business disruption and the associated IT resource drain caused by "panic" patching. Additionally, Blink eliminates the problem of so-called "socially engineered" security threats in which hackers trick individuals into downloading malware or otherwise making their own machines vulnerable to attack. As a result, Blink uniquely protects assets from vulnerabilities, as opposed to only thwarting attacks. For more information on Blink please visit: http://www.eeye.com/html/Products/Blink/.
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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