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From: Evans, Arian [mailto:Arian.Evans@fishnetsecurity.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:13 AM
To: Talisker; pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Vuln Scanner
1. You mean "control" of the scan engine; that distinction
makes sense Andy.
2. I was thinking you meant "aggregation" of scan data, in
which case most any scanner out there can be centrally
aggregated by use of a SEM product.
<blurriness>
And then there are tools like eEye Retina that are NOT
distributed-control, but really "aggregated"
(unless they've recently changed Retina/REM). You have to go
to each distribution point to issue commands, but have a
central console to aggregate
*events* the scans produce.
If you mean distributed control as in being able to goto one central
location to manage multiple different scanners (manage policies, scan
jobs, etc...) then we've done that for a while and recently we do it
even better in REM 3.0. With things like job load balancing at a central
location, open-scanner-first, fail over scanning, bla bla etc... The two
largest vulnerability management deployments in the world are both
customers of ours and obviously that wouldn't be the case if we simply
just aggerated events to a central location. An older version of REM was
just for event aggregation so maybe that is the version your reffering
too. If anyone wants to know more feel free to contact me directly, I'm
don't want to bore everyone with a "my products better" pitch, even if
it is. :-)
So yes, it would be valuable to some break out who does and
who doesn't have a native console that can *control*
distributed installs.
<snip>
-ae
Signed,
Marc Maiffret
Chief Hacking Officer
eEye Digital Security
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