Retina 651 Scanner Combats Cyber-Crime; Aids SMB and Large Organizations
(SAN FRANCISCO (RSA Conference)) April 7, 2008 — With sophisticated cyber-criminal activities on the rise, eEye Digital Security (www.eeye.com), an expert in integrated security and threat management solutions, today released a new network vulnerability assessment and tracking appliance to thwart exploits and data loss attacks. By analyzing specific pieces of the operating system, applications, and policies, the Retina Appliance 651 targets high risk host components and how a cybercriminal could potentially leverage them for malicious activity.
The Retina Appliance 651 detects illegal traffic and fundamental flaws in an environment and recommends the best possible action for remediation and mitigation. Utilizing advanced auditing techniques to non-intrusively determine if a host is vulnerable to exploits and data loss, the solution combines eEye’s Retina Network Security Scanner, Iris Network Traffic Analyzer and Blink Professional Host-based Intrusion Prevention solution into a single appliance.
The appliance provides multi-platform network discovery and scalable vulnerability assessment for any size network environment. Designed to facilitate setup and provide complete coverage for vulnerability assessment and network protection, the Retina Appliance 651 is ideal for both small and medium-size organizations desiring a standalone vulnerability scanner and for larger organizations looking to design a vulnerability management solution that links regional office locations. This distributed system can be controlled with REM, eEye’s central management console, to form a complete threat management solution.
"We evaluated other network scanners but found eEye's Retina Appliance 651 superior at capturing vulnerabilities within our registries that were totally missed by competitive products,” commented Jason Ohs, director of engineering and professional services at IceWEB, Inc.,
(OTC: IWEB), a $25 million provider of hosted software applications and network infrastructure based in Herndon, VA, “It has out-of-the box functionality. Within 10 minutes you assign it an IP address, open RDP and tell it where to go. We used Retina internally to scan our 150-node network, which sees 1 million emails daily. No outages occurred during the scan and the reports it generated were far more comprehensive than other products we evaluated."
The Retina Appliance 651 features dual gigabit network interfaces for high-speed vulnerability assessment as well as network packet inspection, which enables automatic switching from vulnerability assessment to traffic analysis.
By analyzing specific pieces of the operating system, applications and policies, the Retina Appliance 651 determines the highest risk components of a host and how cyber criminals could potentially leverage those components for malicious activity. The appliance also detects illegal traffic and fundamental flaws in an environment, and recommends actions for remediation and mitigation.
Key Features:
•Provides vulnerability, patch, policy-assessment and network-based sniffing capabilities.
•Combines an embedded operating system for distributed vulnerability assessment.
•Small footprint of the mini-ITX motherboard allows appliance to be deployed anywhere.
•Truly headless configuration eliminates need for monitor, keyboard and mouse.
•Scanning only requires a client with Windows Remote Desktop or Terminal Services.
•IP-configuration and status are user-configurable from the front panel LCD.
•Ensures maximum protection for embedded operating systems.
“The Retina Appliance 651 helps businesses battle cyber crime, which can originate from a wide variety of potential sources,” said Morey Haber, eEye VP of Product Management. “Medium-sized organizations looking for a turnkey network vulnerability solution will benefit from its small footprint and a device that was designed from the ground up for rapid configuration. When customers combine the Retina 651 with our REM Management Appliance 1505, the integrated solution delivers a highly-scalable vulnerability and risk assessment solution that enables centralized control over security best-practices, policy compliance and regulatory audits.”
eEye Retina Appliance 651 Specifications:
•Chipset: Intel Dual-Core 2.0GHz
•Operating System: Windows XP Embedded
•RAM 2 GB
•Hard Drive: 80 GB 7200rpm SATA
•Network: Dual 10/100/1000 NIC
•LCD: Headless Configuration
Pricing and Availability
The eEye Retina Security Management Appliance 651 list pricing starts at $2,495 and is covered by a two-year hardware warranty and Standard Support package. Available March 24, Retina Appliance 651 can be purchased through eEye channel partners or in combination with eEye’s Security Account Managers. Customers and partners interested in volume discounts, should contact an eEye Security Account Manager at sales@eEye.com or call 866-282-8276.
For more information on the eEye Retina® Security Management Appliance 651, please visit
http://www.eeye.com/html/products.
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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