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There are several organizations who fit the mold of having just one Nessus scanner. The fact that they own and operate just one scanner is fantastic, it means they have the capability to discover vulnerabilities in their environment, and for most small to mid-sized companies can perform internal scans on a regular basis and react on the results.

Tenable Network Security was recognized at the 10^th Annual Info Security Industry’s Global Excellence Awards dinner held last week in San Francisco. Nessus®/ Nessus Perimeter Service™ received a Global Excellence Award in the PCI Compliance Category. The Info Security Products Guide recognizes that over two-thirds of all PCI-Certified Approved Scanning Vendors (ASV) use Nessus, making Nessus the preferred vulnerability scanning solution for those companies that provide compliance validation services.

The SANS Financial Services Cybersecurity Trends and Challenges is being held this Friday, March 7, 2014 from 8:30 AM to 12 noon at the New York Marriott Downtown.

The challenges of control systems security have been highlighted publically once again with the release of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework earlier this month. Further evidence of the need for improvements in how utilities and other critical infrastructure operators address cybersecurity was brought to light by ICS-CERT's Q4 2013 report on incident response activity.

When it comes to keeping up with advances in cybercrime, how is the financial services sector fairing? What impact are evolving regulations, industry standards, cloud services, BYOD, big data and escalating global cyber-threats having on the infosec practices and people tasked with keeping the sector secure?

To get some perspective on the current state of IT security among financial services firms, the SANS Institute completed a detailed industry-specific survey in early February 2014. Tenable co-sponsored the research project, which gathered results from over 400 respondents.