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Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 31

Hosts: Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist & Kelly Todd, Compliance Analyst

Announcements

• Several new blog posts have been published this week, including:
  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday Roundup - April 2010 - Superman Edition
  • Nessus Version 4.2.2 Released
  • Event Analysis Training – Passive Worm Detection
  • Afterbytes: The "Cyberwar Battlefield"
  • Tenable at SOURCE Boston
  • PVS 3.2 Released – Enhanced vulnerability discovery, real-time forensics and file share and database activity monitoring
  • Vulnerability Metrics Webinar - April 28, 2:00 PM EST
• New Nessus training is now being offered at conferences! - The new course titled "Advanced Vulnerability Scanning Techniques Using Nessus" is now being offered at both Black Hat Las Vegas 2010 and BruCon 2010. It's a two-day course that will put students into a real-world environment where they will have to solve problems and identify vulnerabilities using the advanced features of the Nessus vulnerability scanner.
  
• You can provide feedback to this podcast and all of our social media outlets by visiting our discussions forum and adding messages to the "Tenable Social Media" thread. We would love to hear your feedback, questions, comments and suggestions! We put up a call for ideas on new Nessus videos, so please give us your feedback!


• We're hiring! - Visit the web site for more information about open positions. There are currently 6 open positions listed!


• You can subscribe to the NEW Tenable Network Security Podcast on iTunes! You can also subscribe to the new podcast RSS feed directly.


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

Interview: Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable Network Security

Tenable Network Security is proud to announce the release of version 3.2 of the Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS). This product is a network sniffer that scans for real-time vulnerability data and transmits it to Tenable’s Security Center management console along with real-time user and forensic activity transmitted to Tenable’s Log Correlation Engine (LCE). This blog entry describes many of the new features and enhancements in this release.

Article Title: Navy Fleet Cyber Command Expected to Have Predictive Capabilities Within Two Years

Date: April 6, 2010

Vice Admiral Bernard McCullough, commander of the Navy Fleet Cyber Command, estimates that the command will establish a proactive defense posture by October 2010. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, McCullough said that the military is traditionally reactive and static, but we need to be proactive, dynamic and predictive. He noted that we have to start seeing the network as a weapons system, and the domain as the battlefield. McCullough acknowledged that transforming perceptions will take time but believes the command will have predictive capabilities within two years...

Reference: Navy cyber leader expects proactive capabilities this year

I like "proactive" - it's a good dynamic buzzword, if you're the kind of person who is impressed by action-y sounding verbs. But "predictive"?

As always we are excited to announce a new release of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This is a point release (moving from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2) and applies fixes to the scanning engine itself in addition to some of the utilities. The GUI has not been updated in this release, however GUI changes will be implemented and released independently from a point release.

Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 30

Announcements

• Several new blog posts have been published this week, including:
  • Plugin Spotlight: SMB Insecurely Configured Service
  • Vulnerability Metrics Webinar - April 28, 2:00 PM EST
• New Nessus training is now being offered at conferences! - The new course titled "Advanced Vulnerability Scanning Techniques Using Nessus" is now being offered at both Black Hat Las Vegas 2010 and BruCon 2010. It's a two-day course that will put students into a real-world environment where they will have to solve problems and identify vulnerabilities using the advanced features of the Nessus vulnerability scanner.
• You can provide feedback to this podcast and all of our social media outlets by visiting our discussions forum and adding messages to the "Tenable Social Media" thread. I would love to hear your feedback, questions, comments and suggestions! I put up a call for ideas on new Nessus videos, so please give us your feedback!
• We're hiring! - Visit the web site for more information about open positions. There are currently 8 open positions listed!
• You can subscribe to the NEW Tenable Network Security Podcast on iTunes! You can also subscribe to the new podcast RSS feed directly.
• Tenable Tweets - You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tenablesecurity where we make various announcements, Nessus plugin statistics and more!

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