Posted By News | January 17th, 2012
Nick Popovich, Proso CTO and Lead Vulnerability Researcher was recently published in 2600, The Hacker Quarterly. His article how to add a user with root privileges non-interactively. The full excerpt from 2600 is available here. Continue reading
Tags: 2600, Hacking, how-to, News, Popovich, Root
Filed In: Hacking, News & Events, Press Releases
Posted By News | September 28th, 2011
Chris Merritt, CEO of Prolific Solutions, is excited to announce a new ventured to help certified professionals manage their professional certifications and keep up with continuing education requirements. “The great thing about MyCPEs.com is that it is FREE, and anyone can have an account.” With a free membership, anyone can use MyCPEs.com to track their … Continue reading
Tags: certifications, continuing education, mycpes.com
Filed In: News & Events, Press Releases, Uncategorized
Posted By News | May 11th, 2011
Proso CEO, Chris Merritt, is excited to announce that Senior Business Developer, Warren Bailey, has been accepted into Norwich University’s MSIA (Masters of Science in Information Assurance) program. “We’re very excited that Warren was accepted into the program, [certified by the NSA as a Center of Excellence]. Norwich is fortunate to have Warren in the … Continue reading
Tags: Business Value, Customer Service, Education, MSIA, Norwich, Warren Bailey
Filed In: News & Events, Press Releases
Posted By Nick | April 7th, 2011
When dealing with PC’s that are suspected to have a virus there are a myriad of tools to perform “forensic” tasks. However none of them met ALL of my needs. Most got some of the data, were constrained to a particular format, or required user intervention. Not helpful if you want to instruct tier 1 … Continue reading
Tags: cirt, Incident Response, nirsfot, sysinternals
Filed In: IT Infrastructure Security
Posted By News | March 2nd, 2011
Prolific Solutions is excited to announce two prominent updates to their flagship software, proVM Auditor. “We work very hard to ensure that we are keeping up with vulnerability assessment best practices and changes in scanning and assessment technology. The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is the new standard most vulnerability assessment solutions are striving for, … Continue reading
Tags: DISA STIGs, eEYE Retina, Nessus 4.2, Nessus 4.3, proVM Auditor, SCAP, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Data, XCCDF
Filed In: News & Events, Press Releases, SCAP, Software and Automation, XCCDF
Posted By News | February 24th, 2011
Prolific Solutions today announced that proVM Auditor, software designed to facilitate the aggregation and consolidation of vulnerability scan data, has been awarded the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) and a Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) waiver from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. This certification demonstrates that proVM Auditor meets strict U.S. Army … Continue reading
Tags: AppDetective, Army Enterprise Infrastructure Network, automation, Certificate of Networthiness, CoN, DISA, DoD, Gold Disk, IASE, Information Assurance, Nessus, proVM, Retina, SRR, US ARMY
Filed In: IT Infrastructure Security, News & Events, Press Releases, Software and Automation
Posted By Chris | November 25th, 2010
proVM Auditor, our flagship software offering, continues to be a success for us and our clients (We have a 100% renewal rate). With proVM Auditor, we are able to give our clients the ability to more easily manage their vulnerability data and actually put it to use. We have seen our clients go from performing … Continue reading
Tags: automation, Information Assurance, Information Security, proVM Auditor
Filed In: Business Practices, Compliance, IT Infrastructure Security, Management Practices, Software and Automation
Posted By News | November 10th, 2010
Chris Merritt, ProSo CEO, had his article published as the featured article in the fourth quarter IATAC Newsletter. The article, “Looking for a New FISMA,” outlines some of the problems with compliance paradigms – especially as implemented in the federal space. The article is available @ http://iac.dtic.mil/iatac/download/Vol13_No4.pdf. About the IATAC Newsletter This free quarterly publication … Continue reading
Tags: Compliance, Consensus Audit Guidelines, FISMA, IATAC, Metrics
Filed In: Compliance, IATAC SME Program, IT Infrastructure Security, News & Events, Press Releases, Security Testing
Posted By News | November 9th, 2010
Prolific Solutions CTO, Nick Popovich, learned yesterday that he passed his OSCP certification. The OSCP certification is not for the faint-of-heart; it’s not a 4-hour multiple choice exam. The exam itself consists of a 24-hour window to compromise 5 machines. It’s a certification that really demonstrates the technical prowess and skill set of Nick in … Continue reading
Tags: certification, OSCP, penetration testing
Filed In: News & Events, Press Releases