Entries by Markus Feilner

Greenbone Extends Compliance Policies for CIS Benchmarks

Apache, IIS, NGINX, MongoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Windows, Linux: one year after launch, Greenbone brings numerous new compliance policies for CIS Benchmarks in its products. CIS Benchmarks are used by enterprises, organizations or government agencies to verify that all software products, applications, operating systems and other components in use meet secure specifications. Similar to the IT-Grundschutz […]

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Predictive Vulnerability Management with Greenbone

Identifying tomorrow’s vulnerabilities today with Predictive Vulnerability Management: Together with international partners from across Europe, Greenbone’s cyber security experts are developing a novel cyber resilience platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, helping to prevent attacks. Greenbone is strengthening its internal research in the field of […]

Ransomware as a Service: the Role of Bitcoin and Darknet

Both the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and the darknet have a dubious reputation. The media like to portray both as opaque, criminal parallel worlds. For Ransomware as a Service, Bitcoin and the darknet are welcome tools. Organized crime has been using them for a long time to disguise its business, even if it by no means makes […]

Ransomware as a Service: the Mindset of Cyber Criminals Has Changed

The second part of our series on the ongoing professionalization of attacks on IT systems deals with changes in the attackers’ mindset. Automation, commercialization and cloud computing have also left their mark on the typical profile of cyber criminals that admins and vulnerability management have to deal with. Contrary to common Hollywood clichés, the threat […]

“Ransomware as a Service” as a Business Model: Why the Business of Extortion Flourishes

This article is the first of three blogposts about the changing threat landscape in professional environments. “Ransomware as a Service” as a business model has powerful implications for enterprises, which are by no means defenseless. Modern vulnerability management, which Greenbone’s products enable, also plays an important role in this context. Numbers 2020 – Increase, Revenue, […]

New Vulnerability Scanner “Notus”

The employees of Greenbone are currently developing a completely new scanner for version comparisons. The new vulnerability scanner “Notus” should significantly accelerate the comparison of software versions, CVEs and patches in the future. A large part of modern vulnerability management consists of comparing software versions. If you want to find out whether your server is […]