AST has formed a partnership with local security company, Cubico Solutions, which has merged a portfolio of world-leading open source technologies with its own platform-independent security developments to achieve best-of-breed security solutions.
The levels of Trojan, virus, worm and hacker activities have grown exponentially in the new century. With society, businesses and governments relying on information technology to facilitate tasks, communicate and make better, quicker decisions, the only way to stay one step ahead of threats is in the application of tried and tested cutting-edge security solutions/products and methodologies.
"Information technology, forming the backbone and core of modern business, can at time be the weakest-link to the stability of an organisation, and as such, managing and proactively minimising the risk posed upon IT investments is a critical factor to the success of businesses," explains Bryce Thorrold of AST.
"We were looking for a vulnerability management solution that could deliver true business impact information across all levels of the organisation, while at the same time being suitable to the bandwidth challenges of southern Africa," adds Thorrold.
Cubico`s solution, Foresight, is an automated end-to-end vulnerability management solution that empowers an organisation to reduce enterprise-wide IT risk by discovering risks within both business-critical and operational IT resources, correlating them with fiscal impacts, validated vulnerabilities and providing risk-based task-lists with dynamic and step-by-step remediation.
Foresight has been designed to provide vulnerability information, ease of identification and interaction across all levels of the organisation, from providing non-technical information to executive levels outlining risk and their associated financial impacts; to allowing extensive logical group drill downs empowering managers to manage on a macro level; across to technical complements for rapid mitigation of IT vulnerabilities before they negatively impact the business.
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Cubico Solutions
Cubico Solutions` products address a range of management challenges found in today`s enterprise environments. Their flexibility, platform independence and intelligence make them ideal for ensuring consistent returns on technology investments, reducing the cost of technology ownership through security, allowing you to focus on your core business.
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