Another Zero Day Threat Discovered in Internet Explorer

The latest Internet Explorer zero day threat will unfortunately catch many off guard and will have a significant impact on many organizations that are still relying on outdated defenses.

For the past decade or perhaps longer, our way of dealing with threats has been to try to filter our way out of trouble. However, with our run rate of 6,000 new vulnerabilities combined with the many ways a bad guy can obfuscate their malware, it is simply an obsolete defensive strategy.

Vendor software vulnerabilities are not going away and zero day threats will continue to plague even those organizations that have the best of the best in flaw remediation plans in place. It is important to remember that a zero day threat is not the bad guys “end-game,” it is simply a delivery vehicle to execute malware on the victims PC. Outdated technologies that rely on blocking malware with any form of signature can afford little effective defense. The only defense that makes sense is to disregard the delivery mechanism and apply our focus on the “end-game” to prevent the bag guys from executing their unauthorized malicious payload within our environment.

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Lumension Endpoint Management Platform Strategy to Reduce Complexity, Enhance Security & Compliance, and Expand Visibility Across IT Operations and Security Functions

Company Announces the Availability of Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite to Deliver End-to-End Endpoint Management Solution Capabilities on a Single Server, Single Agent and Single Management Console Architecture

Scottsdale, AZ, Nov. 18, 2009

Lumension, a global leader in endpoint management and security, announced its comprehensive Lumension® Endpoint Management Platform (LEMP) strategy that will deliver tighter integrations and workflows across IT security and operations to help organizations optimize security and compliance posture, reduce technology complexity and decrease TCO. As part of this platform launch, Lumension will be releasing its Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite (LEMSS), which includes initial product capabilities across integrated vulnerability management and security configuration management to deliver greater agility, security and compliance.

According to a recent Ponemon Institute survey commissioned by Lumension, titled Worldwide State of the Endpoint 2010, collaboration between security and operations is considered poor or non-existent by 53 percent of IT security and 38 percent of IT operations practitioners. Further, a majority of IT security and IT operations executives said they feel less secure today than a year ago as a result of complexities in disparate technologies. According to the survey findings, the top three challenges in endpoint management are improving security posture, reducing costs and decreasing complexity. Current challenges are compounded by the growing gaps within IT operations and security groups that have been slow to adapt to the evolving endpoint security risks and approaches, adding to the inflexible and high-risk IT environments that exist today.

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