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FUDwatch: Armenia

by Marcus J. Ranum
May 3, 2013

For a field that loves statistics, computer security sure treats them casually. In order to get my humble BA in Psychology, I absorbed my share of course hours in statistics and testing methods, including a set of lectures based upon Darrell Huff's brilliant book, "How to Lie with Statistics" - which I highly recommend. It's fun easy reading satire - those lectures had the effect of making me hyper-skeptical about any large, round, number that's thrown my way.

Is the Passive Vulnerability Scanner an Intrusion Detection System?

by Ron Gula
April 29, 2013

When I was at RSA earlier this year, I gave a variety of media interviews and product demos about Tenable solutions. I demonstrated Nessus detecting malicious processes and the Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) providing an audit trail of all network activity that led up to the infection. I also showed how the Log Correlation Engine (LCE) correlated PVS logged DNS queries to known botnets.

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