We don’t want our customers to be victims of software vulnerabilities in this age of Internet. Every day and every where security is a big concern. Many of us do not believe that a small security hole left unnoticed on our boxes can turn out to be a critical issue that could bog down the server.
Auditing, analyzing, assessing and profiling of our IT infrastructure is a routine job for all of us. However, as you can imagine, isolating vulnerabilities and ‘hack-proof’ing critical data is not an easy job in a shared server environment.
Tenable’s Security Center has made our job lot easier by inventing Nessus Scanner. Nessus vulnerability scanner is one of the best tools we have come across so far. Most of the security analysts and sever administrators like this tool very much due to its high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis. It’s assessment reports your servers security posture in detail. And with their latest release, the speed of Nessus scan has pretty much improved. Most of the scans which I have done recently were over in less than 25 Minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
