Name: How To Reduce Risk And Safeguard Your IT Environment
Start: 2023-04-19T10:04:00Z
End: 2023-04-19T10:04:55.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

If you are responsible for your organization’s IT security, you need to perform regular vulnerability scans to reduce the risk of a successful cyberattack your network.  Most IT professionals understand this, but many are prevented from doing so because of resource constraints. They either face budgetary limitations imposed by finance, or they simply lack the staff to perform all the work that comes along with the scanning process. Tune in and hear from GM for VulScan Max Pruger and find out how you can solve this issue and the strategies to protect your networks every day.

Your business is at risk 24/7, every day of the year. With security breaches increasing 31% over the last year, 83% of organizations have experienced a breach at least once. It’s time to outsmart the hackers and eliminate every vulnerability on your network – before they are discovered. According to a 2022 IBM report, it takes approximately 9 months to detect a data breach. Leaving vulnerabilities unchecked increases the likelihood that your system will be randomly checked and exploited by hackers. With the right tools, you can easily harden your network and stay ahead of the hackers by scheduling automated scans.

During this presentation, Max Pruger shares insights and the tools you need to make automated vulnerability scanning easy and affordable for you.

You will also learn how to:

* Easily configure each scanner to run regular scans on every network and device you manage
* Minimize risk with automatic alerts to notify of any new vulnerabilities identified
* Remediate immediately with automated advice and specific remediation steps
* Automatically create vulnerability service tickets in your preferred PSA
* Perform as many scans as you want, as frequently as you want, for as many assets as you want

Leveraging The Power Of Automation To Eliminate Vulnerabilities

When it comes to IT Security, a good offense may be your best defense. That means hardening your network to eliminate the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited when you are attacked.

If you’re responsible for managing the security for your own networks, you have exactly zero control over who decides to attack your network, what means and methods they employ, or what assets they target.

Most cyber attacks are random, and can come at any time, and from any place: an open port on the firewall, a back-door through an unpatched application, a brute force attack on an administrative password.

Internal and external vulnerability scanning is the tried and true way to harden any network from most cyber threats. The cybersecurity threat space is constantly changing, as is your IT environment. Attaching a dedicated vulnerability scanner on each network, and scheduling it to run at some regular interval is the best – and arguably only – way to maximize your IT security posture and reduce risk.

Max Pruger will present some best practices and helpful tips that will guide you in the use of vulnerability scanning products, and how to get the most out of the scan results. You will also see a brief demo of VulScan, a simple, effective and affordable solution that is optimized for organizations that manage their own IT security.

Vulnerability Management: It's All About Security

If you are responsible for – or concerned about – protecting your network from hackers and other evil-doers, you will want to watch this IT security briefing for IT technicians and their managers. According to NIST’s National Vulnerability Database, in 2021 there were over 20,000 vulnerabilities, which is the highest level recorded in the last 20 years.

Internal and external vulnerability scanning is the tried-and-true way to harden any network from most cyber threats, but most IT departments don’t do it enough . . . high cost and software complexity being the main reason. 

But vulnerability scanning is the best – and arguably only – way to maximize your IT security posture and reduce risk. Eliminate the vulnerabilities and there’s nothing hanging out there to exploit.

Attend this webinar and you’ll learn:

• How even the smallest vulnerabilities can be quickly identified and exploited. 
• Why hardening is critical for networks to eliminate potential vulnerabilities and drastically reduce the number of successful attacks against them. 
• How having an ongoing vulnerability management process enables you to have an effective system for identifying, categorizing, prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities.

In this live presentation, Max Pruger, General Manager for VulScan, will present some best practices and helpful tips. He will also provide a brief demonstration of our software solution, VulScan. It's purpose-built to manage vulnerabilities across network environments of any size through a single web-based portal, and helps internal IT professionals improve security without breaking the budget.

Harden Your IT Network With Vulnerability Management

When it comes to IT security, the best IT Offense is a great IT Defense.

No IT professional can stop a cyber attack. But everyone CAN easily take steps to harden their networks to prevent an attack from being successful.

Most IT professionals understand that patching alone is not enough . . . and that regular internal and external vulnerability scanning is the best way to minimize the risk of a breach. 

The high cost of vulnerability scanning is usually the main reason why this vital prevention measure is no done as frequently -- or as widely -- as it should. But that's no longer true!

In this briefing you'll be introduced to one of the most affordable professional-grade vulnerability scanning solution on the market. And, we'll show you how to set up an efficient vulnerability management system that you can incorporate into your current network management routines.

VulScan is purpose-built to manage vulnerabilities across network environments of any size through a single web-based portal. It's quick to set up, completely automated, and it will send you alerts after each scan summarizing the known vulnerabilities discovered. You can then review the complete scan results through a web based portal that allows you to drill-in to each discovered issue, with information about each vulnerability and how to address it.

Watch this presentation as a gut check to make sure that you're doing everything you can to protect the networks you manage.

How To Build A Great IT Defense

If you are responsible for IT Security within your own organization, regular network vulnerability scanning is a BASIC procedure recommended by virtually every IT security practice framework. Yet many IT professionals don’t do it for all the wrong reasons. And those who do are and often overwhelmed by the scan alerts.

In this brief but technical presentation, we demonstrate some best practices and helpful tips that will guide you in the use of vulnerability scanning products, and get the most out of the scan results.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Why network vulnerability scanning is so important, and issues it can detect
• How to deploy and set up a virtual vulnerability scanner in less than 10 minutes
• How to determine the scheduled frequency of scans based on specific criteria
• When it makes sense to deploy multiple scanners across a network
• Common exclusion rules to set up to reduce the amount of “noise’ from the system
• Recommended filters to use when reviewing scan results

Vulnerability Scanning: What Every IT Pro Needs To Know

The number of risks your business could face continues to grow rapidly, with over 60 new software vulnerabilities identified every day in 2022. It’s only a matter of time before your organization succumbs to the many vulnerabilities currently hiding within your network.

Reducing such IT risks is the only way to grow your business — and vulnerability management is what you need to combat the cybercriminals of today. A robust vulnerability scanning tool will help your IT professionals take proactive measures to eliminate cyberthreats while maximizing your network’s security posture.

In this webinar, Max Pruger, General Manager, VulScan,  shares his insights and best practices to help you detect security vulnerabilities and reduce blind spots in your IT infrastructure to better safeguard your business.

Watch this recording and learn how to:
Regularly assess your network and identify opportunities to enhance security
Automatically create alerts and tickets for any critical and high-severity issues
Build an effective system for identifying, prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities
Minimize risk with automatic alerts of any new vulnerabilities identified
Meet the vulnerability scanning requirements of any cybersecurity framework

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