VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Foundstone

Enterprise 

A True Enterprise-Class Vulnerability Management Solution

Foundstone Enterprise™ is a closed-loop, enterprise-class security solution engineered to manage and mitigate the business risks associated with digital vulnerabilities. This award-winning appliance-based solution is the most accurate, flexible and scalable vulnerability management system available today and offers network infrastructure protection through asset discovery, inventory, and prioritisation; threat intelligence and correlation; and remediation tracking and reporting. This software reliably scales to handle the largest, most complex, and globally distributed networks.

Foundstone Enterprise is rich in features and safely identifies and remediates network vulnerabilities so that enterprises can proactively protect digital assets from attack and ensure business continuity. It also provides extensive flexibility and customisation options so organisations can tailor their vulnerability management processes to best meet network, compliance, and business requirements. Using the Foundstone Enterprise Manager, customers can also measure and report progress and compliance with robust metrics capabilities.

How Foundstone Enterprise Works

Foundstone's efficient, proactive approach to fortifying the enterprise results in measurable savings in man-hours, critical incidents and bottom-line performance.

Foundstone enables customers to continuously monitor, respond to, and adjust to a changing risk environment before the critical threat has a chance to proliferate.

Foundstone Enterprise can rapidly map an entire global network, including wireless connections, and then relentlessly probe all discovered hosts on the network for vulnerabilities. A client's critical information assets are identified and prioritised for fast, easy and efficient remediation where warranted. And the enterprise can quickly respond to breaking events such as worms and wide-scale attacks by correlating critical threats with important assets. Foundstone enables total control and management over this process.

Clients receive measurement reports that quantify progress and the organisations' current security posture to all levels of management. Knowing the risks across your organisation is only part of the story. When critical events occur, you must respond decisively and effectively.

Foundstone's optional Threat Correlation Module delivers up-to-the-minute Threat Intelligence Alerts from Foundstone Labs so you can respond immediately to breaking events such as worms and wide-scale attacks. The Threat Correlation Module creates a risk ranking for each threat by correlating events to asset and vulnerability information about your enterprise. Organisations can quickly respond when and where it matters most.

Foundstone's Threat Compliance View automatically tracks and graphs your organisation's threat response efforts by business unit and platform, and versus established remediation goals or policies. This up-to-date dashboard benchmarks and trends threat response so managers can ensure that their team's remediation progress is hitting the mark.

Fix and track remediation - Foundstone meets this challenge by offering a fully automated and tightly integrated optional Remediation Module that auto-assigns tickets based on discovered vulnerabilities and auto-closes them once the vulnerabilities have been fixed. Foundstone Enterprise can be deployed quickly and integrates easily into an existing security environment. Distributed scanning engines can also be utilised, based on geographic or technical requirements, while maintaining centralised management and reporting capabilities.

Foundstone Enterprise employs a methodology that simplifies security processes and protects critical digital assets and includes the following important features:

• Comprehensive map of the entire network, including wireless access points and load balancers
  
• Regular, in-depth analysis of the full spectrum of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on operating systems, network devices, commercial applications, databases, wireless devices, and custom web applications
• Threat correlation capabilities to focus resources on important, breaking events
• Fix the highest priority vulnerabilities, based on asset value and security policies
• Metrics and reports to evaluate and communicate cost/benefits and measure improvement

Foundstone Enterprise Comprises the Following Components:

Foundstone Enterprise Manager: This Web portal provides a centralised view of the entire vulnerability management process: asset discovery, prioritisation, monitoring, remediation, and reporting.

FoundScan Engine™: The core scanning technology enables asset discovery and vulnerability analysis across the enterprise with unprecedented management and control.

Foundstone Database: This scalable, frequently updated repository integrates organisation-specific data (assets, vulnerabilities, and threats) with Foundstone's knowledge-base built from years of real-world experience.

Executive Dashboard Module™: This powerful component displays assets and vulnerabilities in easy-to-understand graphs and charts, providing an interactive big picture of an organisation's total security posture.