White Papers
Select one of eEye's white papers to see how eEye's award-winning vulnerability assessment and security management solutions reduce threat exposure, prevent attack, and improve the security posture of businesses.
Three Ways to Secure Virtual Apps
The popularity of virtual applications has increased exponentially; however, the architecture and deployment of virtual applications are difficult to manage for traditional vulnerability management solutions. This guide examines challenges of scanning and detecting virtual app vulnerabilities and details how Retina ensures virtual apps are part of your standard vulnerability management processes.
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Simplifying the Challenges of Mobile Device Security
Smartphones and tablets are invading the workplace along with the security risks they bring with them. Every day these devices go unchecked by standard vulnerability management processes, even as malware on phones and tablets continues to increase at rapid rates. Leaving mobile security out of your integrated security strategy opens your network to security breaches, data loss, intellectual property theft, and regulatory compliance issues.
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Headlines Versus Reality: Survey Report How Do IT Security Professionals Prioritize?
In eEye’s latest survey of its customers and prospects, the company learned that cyber threats that don’t make headlines are in fact the ones causing concern for IT security professionals. The survey, which polled 1677 respondents, demonstrated that headline-driving attacks are not what keep IT security professionals or executives up at night. In fact, findings revealed that 55 percent of respondents viewed common malware and spyware as the number-one threat to their organizations.
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eEye Research Report: In Configuration We Trust
“In Configuration We Trust” offers simple, practical steps to dramatically improve security posture without investing in new technology. This report from the eEye Research Team offers configuration best practices related to VLANs and IPSec, proxies, disabling WebDAV, as well as insights on why organizations should upgrade their Microsoft software, how to best utilize penetration testing, and more.
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eEye 2011 Vulnerability Management Trends
Get insight and answers to today's most pressing VM and compliance issues. eEye created this report by compiling data from a survey of 1,963 IT Security professionals from management to C-level, employed in enterprises from all Fortune levels in a wide range of industries, including government.
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Reduce the Cost of PCI DSS Compliance with Unified Vulnerability Management: A Requirement-by-Requirement Guide
In this guide, you'll learn how to cut the cost and time-investment of PCI compliance using powerful new Unified Vulnerability Management capabilities. Get requirement-specific methods to ensure that you meet compliance and keep sensitive information fully protected.
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Avoiding the Top 5 Vulnerability Management Mistakes
In this guide, you'll learn how to avoid the top five vulnerability management mistakes to protect critical IT assets and improve your security posture, while reducing costs.
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Behind the Scenes Security: eEye in Focus
Learn how eEye’s award-winning research team has provided customers with cutting edge solutions by constantly pushing the envelope when it comes to the analysis of future threats and how to deal with exploits and malware from a detection aspect
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Best Practices for Securing Remote and Mobile Devices
The number of mobile and remote workers has exploded over the past few years. So have the security risks they pose and once these vulnerable employees re-connect they pose a growing threat to your corporate network. This solution brief outlines how an endpoint intrusion prevention and scan-on-connect solution can enable you to secure mobile and remote machines, and your corporate network, from today’s most sophisticated and blended threats.
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Analyzing the Accuracy and Time Costs of Web Application Security Scanners
This paper focuses on the accuracy and time needed to run, review and supplement the results of the web application Scanners and is a follow-on study to a October 2007 study, “Analyzing the Effectiveness and Coverage of Web Application Security Scanners.”
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A Guide to Cyber Crime Security in 2010
Internet crime is easy to commit, highly lucrative, and largely under-policed. Once started as innovative attempts at causing mayhem by technologically-savvy youth, modern cyber criminals are now highly sophisticated and the cyber crime economy is a vibrant, worldwide market that is spreading at an alarmingly dangerous rate. This brief whitepaper will cover current and emerging trends behind internet vulnerabilities as well as methods and solutions available today to help combat this pandemic.
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Analyzing the Effectiveness and Coverage of Web Application Security Scanners
This paper summarizes the studies of web application scanners and an attempt to quantify their effectiveness done by Larry Suto, Application Security Consultant from San Francisco. This study utilizes a novel methodology developed to objectively test the three leading web application vulnerability assessment tools. So far as the author knows, this is the first publicly published study that statistically evaluates application coverage and vulnerability findings by these tools.
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Detecting Persistent Cross-site Scripting
This whitepaper explains how website attacks work and will discuss the difference between Non-Persistent Cross-Site Scripting and the much more dangerous Persistent Cross-Site Scripting variations.
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The Need for Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation: What My CIO Needs to Know
Implementing a vulnerability management process is critical to protecting any business from harmful attacks. This whitepapers examines the importance of vulnerability assessment and the common myths surrounding security protection.
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Intrusive vs. Non-Intrusive Vulnerability Scanning Technology
This paper discusses different scanning techniques and the benefit of using non-intrusive methods for regular vulnerability assessments and more hostile measures for specific environments.
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What Every CIO Needs To Know About HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA regulations require healthcare companies to develop, implement and document the measures they take to ensure that health information remains secure under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA is intended to protect and simplify the exchange of healthcare data nationwide.
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Attaining HIPAA Compliance with Retina Vulnerability Assessment Technology
Compliance with HIPAA is a federal law and violators face up to $250,000 in fines and jail time of up to 10 years. This whitepaper examines how a vulnerability assessment solution, such as the Retina Network Security Scanner, is key to attaining compliance.
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eEye Digital Security Tech Brief: Remote and Mobile User Protection
Today, working remotely is common practice. This creates a situation where networks are driven by computing assets flowing in and out of network perimeters. Securing those assets has become more critical than ever before. This solution brief discusses best practices in securing your remote users.
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Blink: Protection from the Threats of Today and Tomorrow
The war against the desktop is constantly shifting. This is an excellent overview of the many recent trends in attack scenarios, including mass exploitation vs. targeted attacks and the move to client-side attacks as well as the necessity of generic memory-based protection.
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SecureIIS: Web Server Protection Guarding Microsoft Web Servers
"The amount of money we spent on SecureIIS is a fraction of what we would have invested in salaries just to keep up with patch management" - Rebecca Ryder, BRTRC.
Learn how today’s businesses require an added layer of protection to ensure that their Microsoft IIS Web Servers remain running without interruption.
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