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It's 4:55 PM on a Friday and you are looking forward to an enjoyable dinner with your family. Your Blackberry starts buzzing from across your desk while your inbox starts filling up with alerts from your SecurityCenter along with frantic emails from Human Resources. It seems a disgruntled employee named Jack Black quit today and nobody remembered to tell the IT group to disable his accounts until after important files started disappearing. Suddenly, you are stuck in Incident Response mode, gathering data on the user's activities. Do you cancel your reservations?

Fortunately, you have deployed Tenable Network Security's Unified Security Monitoring products, and have a wide array of resources[1] at hand to streamline the response process. These resources include SecurityCenter, the Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) and Log Correlation Engine (LCE). At a high level, what can these resources do for you?

SecurityCenter

SecurityCenter provides a unified view of both vulnerability and event data along with the alerting, ticketing and reporting required for thorough user forensics.

Passive Vulnerability Scanner

PVS not only tracks vulnerabilities, but logs user and network activities detected in real-time on the wire. These activities include:

Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 70

Hosts: Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist and Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher

Announcements

• Several new blog posts have been published this week, including:
  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday Roundup - February 2011
  • Tenable All-Star Showcase - Atlanta - February 22



• Tenable will be at the upcoming RSA conference next week. Please stop by our booth (#729)!


• Check out our video channel on YouTube that contains the latest Nessus and SecurityCenter 4 tutorials.


• We're hiring! - Visit the Tenable web site for more information about open positions.


• You can subscribe to the Tenable Network Security Podcast on iTunes!


• Tenable Tweets - You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tenablesecurity where we make various announcements, provide Nessus plugin statistics and more!

Stories

• Honeynet Project Releases PhoneyC - Furthermore, PhoneyC emulates specific vulnerabilities to pinpoint the attack vector. PhoneyC is a modular framework that enables the study of malicious HTTP pages and understands modern vulnerabilities and attacker techniques.

Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 69

Hosts: Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist, Ron Gula, CEO/CTO, and Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher

Tenable is proud to announce a newly formed partnership with the Univeristy of Maryland's Cybersecurity Center. The partnership will focus on preparing the future security workforce and collaborating on cybersecurity challenges.

It's a rare honor to receive the highest ranking accorded by a reviewer - especially in a highly competitive field. Tenable is very proud to announce that Secure Computing magazine has awarded Nessus 5 out of 5 stars in all categories, including a nice write-up about Nessus features, documentation, support and user experience:

"This product has been the old standby for years, and we find it is still the good dog when it comes to straight-up vulnerability assessment."