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About Lumension
Lumension Inc., formed by the combination of PatchLink and SecureWave S. A., is a leading global security management company, providing unified protection and control of all enterprise endpoints, applications and devices. The ineffectiveness of silo endpoint solutions has sparked demand for a shift in the security paradigm as organisations look to a more holistic approach to unified security management.
Founded in 1991, Lumension pioneered the patch management market segment and led the charge in effective security and vulnerability management. Since its inception, Lumension has made two key acquisitions to round out its product portfolio: STAT Vulnerability Assessment technology from Harris Corporation, and SecureWave's award-winning Sanctuary Device and Application Control. Lumension is maximising the synergies between three best-of-breed, policy-based solutions to deliver definitive protection and control over your corporate endpoints. Today, with more than 5,100 customers worldwide, Lumension continues its tradition of redefining the security market by delivering unified solutions that allow enterprises to effectively manage endpoint risk.
Lumension's Positive Security Model leverages proven security methodologies, practices and technologies to help organisations simplify the entire security management lifecycle. By putting security in a positive light, Lumension is shifting the security paradigm from a reactive to a proactive approach by unifying the best security and configuration solutions to help organisations achieve a consistent and desired state. Leveraging its proven Positive Security Model, Lumension provides definitive protection of enterprise data and IT assets, improves operational efficiencies, reduces costs and accelerates business results.
Lumension Products
Lumension Patch and Remediation™ (formerly PatchLink Update) provides rapid, accurate and secure patch management, allowing you to proactively manage threats in the most complex environments by automating the collection, analysis and delivery of patches throughout your enterprise.
Lumension Developers Kit™ provides flexible software distribution, scripting and customisable patching capabilities which enable your business to achieve its security and operational policy goals.
Lumension Security Configuration Management™ provides out-of-the-box regulatory, standards-based assessment and industry best practices templates to ensure endpoints and applications are properly configured.
Lumension Enterprise Reporting™ is a fully customisable, centralised business intelligence solution that enables organisations to consolidate,centrally manage and analyse vulnerability and configuration data across the enterprise, assess business risk through powerful and granular data vulnerability analysis and Demonstrate security policy and regulatory compliance status through flexible, customised vulnerability and security reporting.
Lumension Scan™ is a complete stand-alone, network-based scanning solution that performs a comprehensive external scan of all devices connected to your network, both managed and unmanaged. Once assets are identified, the powerful, yet easy-to-use Lumension Scan detects weaknesses on these devices before they can be exploited.
Lumension Application Control™ (formerly Sanctuary) allows you to centrally manage, monitor, and control applications with a whitelist approach so that only authorised applications can run. This ensures no malware, spyware, keyloggers, Trojans, worms, viruses, zero-day threats and unwanted or unlicensed software will execute on your network and disrupt your business.
Lumension Device Control™ (formerly Sanctuary) enforces organisation-wide usage policies for removable devices, removable media, and data (such as read/write, encryption) using a whitelist. Lumension Device Control enables organisations to embrace productivity-enhancing tools while limiting the potential for data leakage and its impact.
Historically, in order to enjoy the security benefits of an advanced device control solution, System Center customers would have to deploy a secondary infrastructure (server, console, agents) and incur the delays, disruption, and costs associated with implementing a solution from scratch. Now System Center customers can easily enforce device/port control and data encryption policies without requiring new infrastructure and without additional administration overhead.
Lumension Industry News
RSA and Lumension partner on data protection RSA, the security division of EMC, and endpoint security firm Lumension have announced a partnership aimed at helping organisations better protect and share sensitive information. The companies plan to expand information-aware capabilities into the IT infrastructure by embedding parts of the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite into Lumension products.The aim of the collaboration is to provide organisations with a single, simpler, lower-cost way of securin......
[more] Security admins urged to plan ahead for Patch Tuesday Security companies are warning enterprises to prepare for a busy patching schedule, after Microsoft announced a whopping 34 fixes will be issued in next week's Patch Tuesday update. The 10 security bulletins address flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office, three of which have Microsoft's highest ranking of 'critical'.Alan Bentley, vice president at Lumension urged IT administrators to plan ahead and prioritise the patch load as soon a......
[more] Lumension Device Control protects Barts and The London NHS Trust against data theft and malware infections Barts and The London NHS Trust has selected Lumension Device Control to protect against virus and malware infections while safeguarding the confidentiality and integrity of patient data. The Trust partnered with Lumension for its data protection solution to prevent data loss and theft by enforcing removable device usage and encryption policies for all removable devices such as laptops, MP3......
[more] Lumension combines whitelisting and blacklisting Security vendor Lumension is adding a new function to its security suite which it claims takes the best features from both whitelisting and blacklisting. The Intelligent Whitelisting module works by scanning an entire network for malware and cleaning up any infections where they are found. Once the network is clean then a snapshot is taken and the network is then locked down to allow no new applications to run. Once this has been carried out the......
[more] Derbyshire County Council secures 8,000 endpoints from malware infection with Lumension Lumension has been selected by Derbyshire County Council to help them achieve complete visibility of its security posture for 8,000 endpoints across 430 locations. The move follows a drive to meet government information security directives and improve the results of bi-annual risk management audits. With 90 per cent of cyber attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities, Derbyshire County Council selected Lumensio......
[more] Majority think outsourcing threatens network security A majority of IT security professionals believe that outsourcing technology jobs to offshore locations has a negative impact on network security, according to a survey released Tuesday. In the survey of 350 IT managers and network administrators concerned with computer and network security at their organizations, 69 percent of respondents said they believe outsourcing negatively impacts network security, nine percent said it had a positive i......
[more] What does PCI mean to you? This week my attention has been dominated by one word, well six officially, but often narrowed down to six or even three letters – PCI. To give it its full title it is the ‘Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard', and in my meetings this week at Gartner and other panel debates, the subject arose on several occasions. Now I will be the first to acknowledge that I do not know the ins and outs of PCI (as we will now call it), but thanks to the PCI DSS user group (se......
[more] Solo PowerPoint patch from Microsoft will allow administrators to patch all other applications Microsoft's solo patch for PowerPoint should not be seen as a light load. Andrew Clarke, senior vice president, international at Lumension Security, claimed that the fix for both a zero-day flaw and 13 other privately reported security vulnerabilities is welcomed, although it should be seen as an opportunity to patch other applications. Clarke said: “What is important for IT administrators to un......
[more] Adobe's PDF vulnerability patched Security researchers say Adobe's PDF vulnerability, which was fixed Tuesday, is more of a pressing issue than Microsoft's PowerPoint vulnerabilities fixed the same day. Adobe issued Windows updates for Reader and Acrobat versions 7, 8 and 9 and Macintosh and Unix updates for versions 8 and 9 for a vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat. The company said updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7 for Macintosh are scheduled to be available before the end of June, accord......
[more] Lumension drops compliance software and buys startup Lumension Security, formerly PatchLink, has bought Texas-based Securityworks with the intention of transplanting its compliance and risk assessment product in place of its own. Although the company's is best known for its patching, endpoint and vulnerability management products, the move is a bold attempt to keep expanding in the face of the demand from customers for integrated rather than standalone security apps.The Securityworks technology......
[more] Salvation Army protects integrity of its data with Lumension Data Protection solution The Salvation Army is one of the largest providers of social care in the UK, being second only to the Government. The Salvation Army has staff working across the country in a range of drug addiction centres, elderly care homes and Salvation Army centres. A centrally managed endpoint security solution was required to support its 2,000 endpoints and 2,500 staff. Martin Croft, Head of Corporate Systems at The Sal......
[more] Website-based malware hits all-time high The use of malware on websites to steal passwords and other sensitive information is rocketing, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The number of URLs with hidden code for stealing passwords nearly tripled between July 2007 and July 2008, to a record high of 9,529, while the number of malicious-application variants hit a high of 442 in May, the APWG reported in its quarterly report issued this week. The increase is primarily d......
[more] IT managers view outsourcing as a major threat for next year Cybercrime and outsourcing have been identified as the top security concerns for 2009. According to a study by Lumension Security, 50 per cent of IT operations professionals viewed outsourcing as an imminent and near-time critical risk, while more than 75 per cent of IT security professionals noted cybercrime as a major issue. As companies are looking to reduce costs based on economic factors in 2009, the company believes that outsour......
[more] Industry welcomes Microsoft's latest patching Microsoft released one critical and one important patch for its November patch Tuesday. The MS08-069 critical bulletin patched the vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services. Microsoft claimed that the most severe vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted web page using Internet Explorer. Meanwhile, the MS08-068 important patch resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Bloc......
[more] NHS trusts guards against further data loss NHS Lothian is ramping up the patient information security following a recent data loss incident. The Scottish Trust is implementing access management security from Lumension Security to restrict network access to approved devices. This is being complemented with end-point control technology from Becrypt. “Recent well-publicised incidents have highlighted the need to ensure that ICT systems are robust and offer the proper levels of security and......
[more] Protecting Company Information - Why, How and What if? I recently took part in another webinar, this time with Lumension Security, covering issues around protecting company information. It was an interesting session as we had input from a vendor, customer and myself as an analyst. There is a transcript of my session and the event can be replayed here: http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/event/ReedElsevier/0efbe98067-1715-introProtecting company information is becoming more and more difficult. As IT......
[more] Microsoft fixes IE, Office in big month of security updates Microsoft released patches to fix 19 critical vulnerabilities in its software Tuesday, including five flaws in its Internet Explorer browser that security experts advise IT administrators to patch immediately. The total of 11 security updates released for August is the largest round of Patch Tuesday updates Microsoft has released since last February and should give IT administrators plenty to do to secure their companies' systems.......
[more] IT security oversight may have enabled data breach A former employee accused of stealing customer data from Countrywide Financial Corp. may have been able to download the information to a thumb drive because of an oversight by the home mortgage lender's IT department. Rene Rebollo, a former financial analyst at Countrywide, was arrested Aug. 1 in Pasadena, Calif., for allegedly stealing and selling the data, which included names, Social Security numbers and contact information. According to a......
[more] Spammers Go for Olympics Gold Spammers and cybercriminals are fanning the flames of the Beijing 2008 Olympics frenzy in a bid to get a cut of the take. And enterprises need to act now to avoid getting hammered. The latest attack saw 57 e-mails containing press release and media information that appear to be from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) hitting 19 domains, according to MessageLabs, which provides managed secure electronic communications services. These e-mails have an Adobe Ac......
[more] Security oversight may have enabled Countrywide breach The man accused of stealing customer data from home mortgage lender Countrywide probably was able to download and save the data to an external drive due to an oversight by the company's IT department. On Friday, Rene Rebollo, a former senior financial analyst at Countrywide, was arrested for his alleged role in stealing customer data and selling it. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavits show that Rebollo told special agents that......
[more] MoD loses sensitive laptop from hotel A Ministry of Defence official's laptop holding sensitive information has been stolen from a hotel, the 659th laptop to be stolen in four years. The laptop, which was encrypted, was stolen from the Britannia Adelphi hotel in Liverpool on Thursday. The news follows the government’s disclosure that 658 other laptops had been stolen in the last four years. This was much higher than the previous figure of 347 laptops stolen in 2004 to 2007. The revised l......
[more] Lumension Releases SCAP Validation of the Vulnerability Management Solution Lumension Security announced the release of Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Scanner validation of the company’s Vulnerability Management Solution. Lumension has acquired SCAP Validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The company has been successful in getting this validation in the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) Scanning category. Lumension has proved itself in enf......
[more] Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting Brent Rickels, senior vice president at First National Bank of Bosque County, had grown tired of dealing with antivirus software. He was tired of regularly updating virus signatures, tired of hackers constantly tweaking malware, and tired of worrying about what users had downloaded onto their PCs. So Rickels dumped the bank’s AV software for a whitelisting product and in the process, become one of its first commercial customers. First National Bank o......
[more] Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes nine vulnerabilities In its Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft addressed nine vulnerabilities by releasing four security updates, none of which were deemed critical. The updates, all rated as “important,” included fixes that patched vulnerabilities in the Windows Domain Name System (DNS), could allow spoofing (MS08-037). With this fix, two vulnerabilities that could allow a remote attacker to redirect network traffic intended for systems on the internet to the attacke......
[more] Enterprises, Prepare for iTunes In his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, June 9, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed many of the rumors surrounding the next-generation iPhone. While we already knew about the software features of the iPhone 2.0 software (the SDK, App Store, Exchange ActiveSync and Cisco VPN client) from his announcements in March, this time Jobs confirmed that the new hardware will have a 3G radio, integrated GPS and a much more attractive......
[more] The Case Proves the Danger That Using P2P Services for Illegal Software and Media Downloads Now Poses Seattle-based Gregory Kopiloff, who made security history last November by becoming the first person to be indicted on peer-2-peer (P2P) identify theft charges, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison. The case, says David Hobson, managing director of Global Secure Systems, a IT security consultancy, proves the danger that using P2P services for illegal software and media downloads now poses.......
[more] Microsoft patches Excel zero-day bug, releases three other fixes Microsoft issued four "critical" patches, including one for the zero-day Excel vulnerability reported in January, in its March Patch Tuesday round of bug fixes. In all, the company corrected 12 vulnerabilities, all client-side problems associated with its Microsoft Office productivity suite. "Every single patch is critical and needs to be seriously considered for remediation," Paul Zimski, senior director of ma......
[more] Constant patch releases force IT to adopt new processes The first Sunday after the second Tuesday of every month is a big day for the Arlington County, Va., IT unit's network operations team. That's when the group gets to test and deploy the patches that Microsoft Corp. releases each month as part of its regularly scheduled security update process. Some months, the team gets lucky and the vendor issues only a few security fixes. On other occasions, such as this month, the county government's IT......
[more] Government 'lost' DNA data disc on 2,000 criminal suspects The government is being urged to explain why a data disc, containing DNA profiles of 2,000 offenders whom the Dutch authorities wished to trace had been missing for almost a year. The latest data controversy to hit the government came about after the Dutch authorities tried to track down 2,000 Dutch citizens who were on the run after committing serious crimes. In January 2007, they sent a disc containing the DNA samples of the offenders......
[more] Adobe releases Reader, Acrobat patches Adobe on Thursday released a "critical" update to its Acrobat and Adobe Reader applications that fixes a number of workflow issues and security vulnerabilities while improving stability. The update, which brings Reader and Acrobat to version 8.1.2, includes 12 fixes for security flaws, some of which can be exploited remotely. The fix also provides support for Mac OS X Leopard, according to Adobe.The San Jose, Calif.-based company released few details on th......
[more] Excel Flaw Highlights Need for Better App Security Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws. Don Leatham of Lumension Security has a first-step remedy to the ongoing security concerns around Microsoft's Excel application. "IT guys should tell end users right off the bat, that if they see an unrecognizable Excel document in their inbox, they should treat it like por......
[more] Fighting Data Leakage With a Shadow Data leakage is one of the greatest security risks facing IT organizations. The challenge of keeping confidential information secured is one that many security vendors claim to solve through different means. Among the many vendor solutions is that offered by security vendor Lumension Security, which now has a new U.S. patent to prove its "shadowing" approach to data leakage protection is something unique. "The shadowing technology underlying th......
[more] Websense offers data leak protection beta Websense is to release an endpoint security product for content protection next year, along with an accompanying set of open APIs for third-party vendors to work with. Devin Redmond, director of security products at Websense, said the product, tentatively called Content Protection Suite Endpoint, was available in beta for desktops based on Windows 2000 or XP and up. The endpoint security software, which works to ensure sensitive content isn't copied int......
[more] Government suggests need for more work flexibility Helpdesks and IT managers could be under more pressure to provide flexible working opportunities for staff, courtesy of legislation outlined in the Queen's speech.The proposal could give parents with school-age children up to the age of 17, the right to request flexible working.The pressure could come from two areas, the need to secure remote access connections and the need to make sure that confidential company data stored and accessed on lapt......
[more] Apple fixes iTunes buffer vulnerability Apple has released an update that fixes a critical vulnerability in its iTunes music player for Macintosh and Windows PC - six weeks after the flaw was detected. The vulnerability, a buffer overflow that could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on or crash an impacted system, was disclosed by David Thiel, a senior security researcher at iSec Partners, at the annual Black Hat conference in early August. It impacts iTunes 7.3.2.Thiel said t......
[more] PatchLink born again as Lumension Security Patch management company PatchLink is no more, but its demise is not bad news. The company has changed its name to Lumension Security. Formed from a cross between the word 'luminescence' and the phrase 'new dimension', Lumension's birth probably became inevitable last June on the day PatchLink merged with Luxembourg-based SecureWave. Up to that point, PatchLink had been a well-known software patch management company. After that point, given SecureWave'......
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