SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African enterprise partner for eEye Digital Security, today announced that the latter's award-winning endpoint security product, Blink and Retina, its industry-leading network security scanner, are able to identify and protect enterprises from a security vulnerability found within the Remote Desktop Services portion of the Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
Currently, eEye is the only software vendor to provide protection against this vulnerability in lieu of a software patch from Microsoft.
"Business continuity is a major responsibility for enterprise IT, so the threat of denial of service is a serious concern," stated Marc Maiffret, eEye's chief hacking officer.
"Thanks to the diligence and expertise of our research and development teams, Blink has been confirmed to be the only endpoint solution to already offer protection against this vulnerability to our enterprise customers. Not only does Blink stop this denial of service from working, but it allows organisations to continue to use Remote Desktop Protocol for their business needs."
This security issue affects a large majority of Windows systems currently used by enterprises around the world. This high-risk security vulnerability could potentially allow an attacker to send a specially crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) request to an affected system, which would result in a denial of service. For an enterprise with thousands of Windows-based machines, many running critical applications, this represents a dramatic threat to business continuity. To date, Microsoft has not issued a patch for this security flaw.
While technical details of the vulnerability have not been publicly disclosed, eEye's research team, which has discovered more critical security vulnerabilities than any other organisation, has been able to replicate the vulnerability and provide a fix for its customers without disclosing any information that could be used to exploit the vulnerability. Blink, the most comprehensive and powerful endpoint security software introduced to date, is able to protect enterprises through its unique approach to intrusion prevention that focuses on methods of exploit, rather than attack signatures. As a result, an enterprise can keep all of its Windows-based machines up and running without having to engage in security measures that may impact its business communications.
In addition, eEye's industry-leading Retina network security scanner is able to quickly scan global enterprise networks to identify vulnerable machines.
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za.
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eEye Digital Security provides enterprise security software that proactively protects networks from intrusion. USA eEye was founded in 1998, and its integrated family of security solutions include Retina Network Security Scanner, SecureIIS Web Server Protection, Iris Network Traffic Analyzer, Blink Intrusion Prevention System and REM Remote Enterprise Management.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion prevention software and network asset management.
SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the southern African distributor for US-based Application Security, eEye, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense; and UK-based Centennial.
For more information please visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment.
For more information please visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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