CVE Explained

About CVE ( Common Vulnerability Exposures/Enumeration) Common vulnerabilities and exposure gives common names to openly known security issues or vulnerabilities. The objective of CVE is to make it simpler to impart information over different databases and make available a common platform to evaluate security tools. What is a CVE scan? CVE depends on freely accessible […]

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Microsoft is Right, Mandatory Password Changes are Obsolete

This article was originally published on Help Net Security on August 1 , 2019. Microsoft has recently come out and said that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete. This goes directly against everything we were trained to think for the last couple of decades, and against most compliance directives including some of the most dominant security […]

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IoT Device Testing Made Possible With BeStorm X

This article was originally published on TechTarget on April 22, 2019. In an international collaboration, U.S.-based Beyond Security and Japan-based Ubiquitous AI Corporation developed and launched BeStorm X, a vulnerability verification tool designed specifically to test IoT devices. The vendors claim the tool is an amalgamation of Beyond Security’s BeStorm version 7.6.8 and UAC’s IoT technologies. The […]

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What Is the One Thing We Can Do Right Now to Improve Our Cybersecurity?

This article was originally published on U.S. Chamber of Commerce on April 08, 2019. If you could create your own fantasy Board of Directors, who would be on it? CO— connects you with thought leaders from across the business spectrum and asks them to help solve your biggest business challenges. In this edition, a CO— reader asks […]

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BeSECURE: Network Scanning for Complicated, Growing or Distributed Networks

Upgrade Your Network Scanner Free scanners are great – up to a point. That point is when your network reaches a critical size, your assets have acquired a critical value or your company, industry (or Uncle Sam) has set new compliance requirements that those freebee tools just can’t handle. beSECURE, the Automated Vulnerability Detection System, […]

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Port Scanning Tools VS Vulnerability Assessment Tools

Port scanning tools – just the first step to network security Your port scanning tools are nice, but… When your network reaches a critical size, your assets have acquired a critical value or when new compliance standards hit, your port scanning tools may have reached their limit. It’s the job of vulnerability assessment and management […]

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BeSECURE: Designed for MSPs to Scan Hundreds of Businesses

Security services for the Managed Service Provider Get started with our hosted service and pay as you go just for the scans you initiate on external IPs and web sites. Later, add a network IP scanning service and install Local Scanning Servers into networks to do internal network scanning. Whether in a security operating center (SOC), an ASP […]

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Network Security and the Fourth Pillar

The three crumbling pillars of network security Why is network security getting harder? Access control, firewall and Intrusion Prevention Systems are failing to keep attackers from reaching vulnerable systems and network administrators have added as many layers beyond those as possible to no avail. This is a problem because successful attacks are often done with […]

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