Tenable Blog

I was recently asked by Carpathia Hosting to contribute to an eBook being written by their CTO, Jon Greaves. The book is titled 'The Datacenter of the Future'. 

The initial chapter describes the evolution of security and privacy as we've progressed from issues such as the Morris worm of 1988 to today's "it's in the cloud" attitude. There are some very good insights in the chapter which explain how the past evolution of technology will influence the types of offerings ISPs and hosting companies will provide in the next decade.

Microsoft recently released a critical security bulletin, MS08-067 that described a privately reported vulnerability in the Server service and provided a patch for this vulnerability. What was unusual was that this bulletin was released independently of Microsoft’s usual patch notification process and caused quite a bit of concern for many organizations. Tenable used this opportunity to help a number of organizations monitor their networks to determine if this issue had been mitigated.

Episode #89 of Risky Business is now available and features comments from Tenable's CSO, Marcus Ranum. Marcus recently keynoted the Hack In The Box security conference in Malaysia and spoke on many of the common misconceptions about "cyber" warfare. Marcus has also blogged here about many different topics which receive the "cyber" label including:

Besides the monthly Tenable Enterprise Security Monitoring classes available at our Columbia training center, Tenable offers versions of the same content taught at customer locations. The obvious reason to choose our onsite training offering is that allows entire teams to be quickly trained on Security Center, Nessus, Passive Vulnerability Scanner or Log Correlation Engine without the inconvenience and cost of sending one to two students at a time to Maryland.