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Driving Risk Reduction through RealContext™ in Nexpose 5.9
We are pleased to announce the next major release of Nexpose, version 5.9. This
release focuses on reducing the risk that matters to your business, quickly and
efficiently.
Business Context?
One of the biggest failings of the security industry so far is that it has
failed to successfully tie the knowledge and the needs of the business to the
overall risk landscape. Every organization has different thoughts and needs
around how they prioritize risk, what they deem fundamentally important, and h
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Nexpose
Simplifying Security Programs with Nexpose 5.7
We are pleased to announce the next version of Nexpose, version 5.7. This
release focuses on helping to provide context on how well your Security Program
is performing and helping you simplify your vulnerability management processes
to help you save time.
The last release of Nexpose, Nexpose 5.6
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new Top Remediation
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Release Notes
Simplify Vulnerability Management with Nexpose 5.6
We are pleased to announce the next major release of Nexpose, version 5.6. This
release focuses on providing you the most impactful remediation steps to reduce
risk to your organization and extends our current configuration assessment
functionality.
New Look and Feel
The most visible change in Nexpose 5.6 is the new look and feel of the user
interface. The action header is now smaller to maximize screen space and
usability, and the new colour scheme makes it easier to focus on important areas
2 min
Nexpose
Find Vulnerable pcAnywhere Installations with DAGs
On Monday, Symantec made the rare decision
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to tell their customer base to either uninstall or disable their remote control
software suite pcAnywhere [http://www.symantec.com/pcanywhere]. Symantec made
this decision because their users were at risk to be exploited by publicly known
vulnerabilities that they had not been able to create a patch for yet. This
recommendation to disable software due to act
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The Advanced Policy Engine
The Advanced Policy Engine is the new configuration compliance framework that
was created for the Nexpose 5.0 release.
Advanced? What makes it advanced?
Anyone can call anything "Advanced" these days. A lot of times it is hard to
tell if it is just marketing or a real improvement. Look at all of the cleaning
ads on television right now.
"Cleaner X cleans 30% then the our previous cleaner using our new Advanced
formula!!!"
Is it really improved? How did they measure the i