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Nessus Perimeter Service Wins Global Excellence Award for PCI Compliance

Tenable Network Security was recognized at the 10th 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.

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ThreatConnect: Indicator for Suspicious Behavior and Malware

Information about threats comes from many different sources. Several third parties, such as ThreatConnect, offer such information which can be used as indicators for suspicious behavior and/or malware in your environment. ThreatConnect technology can be integrated with Tenable's SecurityCenter and Nessus products as follows:

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Leveraging Logins and Login Failures to Track Insiders

I recently had the chance to explain Tenable’s approach to tracking insiders through authentication logs to a new employee. The conversation went something like this:

Q: If I handed you a pile of logs and told you that “Bob” in accounting was an insider threat, what would you do?

A: I’d look through all the logs for accounts that Bob had access to and attempt to audit which systems he accessed and possibly what he did.

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Tenable Launches “Straight Talk About PCI” Discussion Forum

Have you ever tried to navigate the PCI website and gotten lost and confused?

Are you part of the 99% of companies that must traverse the PCI Compliance landscape as part of the “Self-Assessment” or “do-it-yourself” crowd?

Have you been overwhelmed by vendor claims of “PCI made easy” or “PCI Compliance in 10 minutes” or “PCI in a Box”?

Does it bother you that the answers to your questions are often tied to the product/solution the vendor is selling?

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Nessus Audits HP ProCurve Routers

A new plugin for auditing HP ProCurve routers is available for Nessus customers. Nessus allows you to assess the security of your configurations on HP ProCurve products, including routers, switches, and wireless access points.

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Cyber-Criminals Don’t Take the Holidays Off

It’s nearly upon us. Black Friday weekend… the beginning of the holiday shopping and party season that will generate an estimated $5.4 billion windfall for cyber-criminals!

This holiday season we decided it would be fun to create an infographic that illustrated the relationship between holiday spending, payment card transactions, online, offline and mobile commerce, cyber-crime and remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.

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Nessus Helps Harden FireEye Appliances

A new compliance plugin for FireEye appliances is now available for Nessus customers. This new functionality allows auditing of FireEye instances against best-practice hardening guidelines, ensuring that the security appliance and the data contained therein is secure.

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Keeping Anti-Virus in Check

Nessus will generate a finding if the scan target has an Anti-Virus agent deployed with the virus detection rules out of date. We've often received feature requests asking us to allow customers to set a grace period (in days) to avoid generating this alert. Such a preference was added this week under the heading 'Antivirus Software Check':

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