Last month when Cisco acquired Splunk one of the quotes I read on LinkedIn that jumped out at me was that this acquisition makes sense because: As networks get more complex, it’s important to know what’s really going on. I couldn’t agree more with that sentiment. And to me that’s one of the most important …
BackBox is the first and only network automation platform to help network superheroes both track and remediate network and security device vulnerabilities (CVEs and more) in a way that especially designed for network teams. NVM gives administrators the tools to protect their networks by tying together device inventory with a threat and vulnerability intelligence feed. …
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CVE-2018-13379 was the top vulnerability of 2022. It’s a Fortinet SSL VPN vulnerability that the company fixed four years ago, in May 2019. So, when someone tells me that they have OS updates or vulnerability patching under control, I’m understandably skeptical. Can you imagine not updating a device more frequently than every 3 or 4 …
What if you went to the store to buy a saucer for every cup you owned, only to realize that you don’t actually know how many cups you have? I can’t tell you how many times that’s happened with BackBox customers… but with network equipment not cups. They implement BackBox only to find that they …
Network Vulnerability Manager (NVM) is built specifically for network administrators and designed to help them prioritize OS updates based on actual, measured, risk to the organization. Updating devices sounds easy. Just update the software, right? Every vendor tool has that capability. It should be easy. It’s not. Partially because the quality of update tooling varies …
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is the gold standard of breach reporting being based on more than 16,000 security incidents and 5,200 breaches. There are two things that jumped out at me: the security costs of human error and the size of companies being targeted (getting smaller). The Security Costs of Human Error the …
BackBox prepares organizations for CIS Benchmark compliance with prebuilt network automations.
When it comes to network security, we often think about vulnerabilities or exploits. About internal threats, and password compromises. We don’t often think about automation. Anything that can have a negative impact on network resiliency and its return to full operation after an ‘event’ relates to security. Automation helps keep your network humming along at …
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The Enterprisers Project, a site providing content for CIOs and IT leaders, included Josh Stephen’s, BackBox CTO, thoughts in an article published today. Titled ‘4 ways for CIOs to strike a balance between operation and innovation‘ it takes points of view from four industry leaders, including Josh. In many ways – time in the day, …
The other day, Fortinet announced patches for 40 flaws, including two rated critical and 15 rated high severity. Top of the list is a severe bug residing in the FortiNAC network access control solution (CVE-2022-39952, CVSS score: 9.8) that could lead to arbitrary code execution. In most posts I write, I do very little selling. …