free security tool for personal computers updating what’s new in
TRANSCRIPT
Secunia • Weidekampsgade 14A, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark • Tel: +45 7020 5144 • Fax: +45 7020 5145 • secunia.com
Essential Security The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) is a free security tool for home users, designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins, which expose your PC to attacks. Attacks exploiting vulnerable programs and plug-ins are rarely blocked by traditional anti-virus and are therefore increasingly “popu-lar” among criminals.
The only solution to block these kind of attacks is to apply security updates, commonly referred to as patches. Patches are offered free-of-charge by most software vendors, however, finding all these patches is a tedious and time consuming task. The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) automates this and alerts you when your programs and plug-ins require updating to stay secure. Moreover, if the new “Auto Update” feature is enabled, most of the insecure programs can be updated automatically without user interaction.
With the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta), updating your programs and keeping your PC secure is as simple as pushing a button.
Why Beta?The Secunia PSI 2.0 is currently a beta release. We value your feedback during this beta testing phase as it helps us release a more mature and fine-tuned product for the benefit of the Secunia PSI users. This is why we run open beta testing of our upcoming releases.
The final release of the Secunia PSI 2.0 is expected to be in Q4, 2010.Until then, we recommend that organisations do not deploy the Secunia PSI 2.0 beta version in their production environments.
The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) is a free tool for home users. Organisations that are interested in deploying the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) on the PC’s of their staff, students, or members can contact Secunia for more information on distribution and licensing options.
What’s New in 2.0? � Auto Update
� Integration with the Secunia CSI
Target Audience � Home PC users
� Educational institutions
� Secunia CSI Administrators
� Organisations with users connecting to corporate networks via PC’s/Laptops
Benefits � Extremely fast scanning
� Extensive program coverage
� Highly accurate scan results
� Automated patching
"Number one is the Secunia Personal Software Inspector,
quite possibly the most useful and important free application you can have running on your Windows machine.”
ZD Net
"Secunia provides tremendous value for their customers, end-users, and to other security vendors.”
Frost & Sullivan 2010 Best Practices Award
Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) 2.0
UpdatingSimplified
FREE Security Tool for Personal Computers
Secunia • Weidekampsgade 14A, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark • Tel: +45 7020 5144 • Fax: +45 7020 5145 • secunia.com
What’s New in 2.0?Auto UpdateThe Auto Update functionality will allow users to secure their computers by simply installing the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta), and configuring it for Auto Update. The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) will then automatically detect insecure programs, download the required patches from the vendors, and install them accordingly.
The key benefit to the user is that once installed and configured for Auto Update, the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) automatically installs the most important patches without further user interaction, thus relieving the users from spending time in fetching the patches by themselves and then manually installing them. Integration with the Secunia CSI The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) now offers integration with the Secunia CSI, making it possible to report its local scan results to the centralised Secunia CSI dashboard. This feature helps the Secunia CSI administrators in organisations to track the security status of PC users that occasionally connect to their corporate networks, and are therefore not included in the regular update cycles.
IT Administrator
This is especially useful for administrators in educational institutions, where they do not have control or access to students PCs, connecting to the university’s network. By encouraging these users to install the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) on their PCs, the administrators can get a better overview of both internal and external vulnerability threats from the Secunia CSI dashboard, and implement a more comprehensive security policy in an efficient manner.
How It WorksThe Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) is an invaluable tool for you to use when assessing the security patch state of programs installed on your system. It constantly monitors your system for insecure programs, notifies you when an insecure program is installed, and even provides you with detailed instructions for updating the program when available.
Non-intrusive authenticated vulnerability and patch scanningThe Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) takes a different approach than other scanners by conducting authenticated scans of systems. This makes it possible for the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) to identify all installed programs and plug-ins based on the actual files present on the system.
The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) correlates program meta data with Secunia’s comprehensive product database to build an inventory of the installed programs and plug-ins. This inventory is in turn correlated with vulnerability meta data based on Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence.
The accuracy of this approach is unprecedented and provides actionable results with risk ratings and other metrics based on Secunia Advisories.
Scan resultsThe scan results of the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) provide details about the full installation path, version details, direct links to patches, ratings, access to Secunia Advisories with further vulnerability details and metrics, as well as other useful information for alternative mitigation strategies.
The scanning also detects and reports end-of-life programs and plug-ins. These are programs which for some reason are not supported by the vendor. Programs which have reached end-of-life should not be used due to lack of vulnerability information about these products and that the vendors will not be providing security updates.
The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) also lists all the programs and plug-ins, which are patched and up-to-date. This can be used to verify that patches have been properly applied and that old insecure versions have been removed. It can also be used as a valuable and highly accurate supplement to other asset and license management tools, as well as to track installation of non-approved programs and plug-ins.
EXE OCX DLL
SecuniaAdvisory
AProgram 1.0
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.0
EProgram 1.0
AProgram 1.2
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.1
EProgram 1.0
EXE OCX DLL
SecuniaAdvisory
AProgram 1.0
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.0
EProgram 1.0
AProgram 1.2
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.1
EProgram 1.0
EXE OCX DLL
SecuniaAdvisory
AProgram 1.0
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.0
EProgram 1.0
AProgram 1.2
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.1
EProgram 1.0
2
3
4
1 The Secunia PSI 2.0 Beta scans your computer
It scans all executables, including EXE, OCX, and DLL files using the Secunia File Signatures
The Secunia PSI 2.0 Beta tells you which version to update
Automatic patch deployment using Auto Update
Patch B
EXE OCX DLL
SecuniaAdvisory
AProgram 1.0
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.0
EProgram 1.0
AProgram 1.2
BProgram 1.0
CProgram 3.0
DProgram 2.1
EProgram 1.0
DProgram 2.1
AProgram 1.2 Patch A
Patched
Patched
Secunia • Weidekampsgade 14A, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark • Tel: +45 7020 5144 • Fax: +45 7020 5145 • secunia.com
Summary of Features � Non-intrusive authenticated vulnerability and
patch scanning � Covers programs and plug-ins from thousands
of vendors � Unprecedented accuracy, no more false positives � Reports security status for each program � Reports criticality rating for each insecure
program � Reports end-of-life programs � Identifies missing patches � Auto Update of programs � Integration with the Secunia CSI
Stay SecureKeeping your PC, and especially your 3rd-party programs updated requires you to search the Internet for updates and patches on a regular basis, for all your installed programs. These time-consuming and manual steps are now obsolete, and completely automated with the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta).
The Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) is the next generation security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping PC users secure their computers against vulnerabilities in programs. It is non-intrusive, light weight, and leverages a unique file signature technology to deliver fast, precise, and high quality results. It scans your computer fast, pinpoints exactly which patches you need, download the patches, and installs them accordingly.
Protecting your PC with the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta) is now as easy as pushing a button.
To learn more and download the Secunia PSI 2.0 (Beta), visit:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Partnership and Distribution ModelsSecunia offers partnerships in various models where the partners can utilise the Secunia PSI to create value for their business and customers. Our partners include, but are not restricted to: Internet service providers, security vendors, as well as financial and educational institutions.
Internet Service Providers (ISP)Secunia provides the markets’ best security solution focused on free security updates to ISP customers. Secunia can assist in awarness camping targeting customers and other initiatives.
Security VendorsWe offer security vendors the ability to integrate the Secunia PSI solution into their security suites targeted at consumers.
Financial InstitutionsSecunia offers products focused on helping secure the end-customers of financial institutions, i.e., customers who engage in online financial transactions. We have seen a huge interest in our tailor-made solutions which include vulnerability scans as part of the login process, for instance, e-banks.
Educational InstitutionsSecunia provides non-commercial partnerships to edu-cational institutions, enabling them to distribute the Secunia PSI free-of-charge
Being the leading provider of Vulnerability Intelligence, Secunia plays an important role in the security eco-system, and is the preferred supplier by more than 1,000 enterprises and government agencies around the globe.
Vulnerabilities in programs represent the Achilles’ heel of any network or IT-system. Secunia’s mission is to identify and eliminate the threat from these vulnerabilities, by accurately tracking software vulnerabilities and supply products to our customers, and the community.
The quality and importance of Secunia in the security eco-system is publicly recognised by customers, partners, software vendors, industry peers, media, and the community. Secunia has
from year one exhibited peerless financial and strategic performance, proving the following by organic means:
� Higher growth than market average since inception – and organic
� Continuous growth in staffing � Profitable all years � No bearing debt � Privately funded, no venture capital � Dun and Bradstreet AA rating � A very strong and credible brand provider.
Contact [email protected] for more information
“Secunia PSI won’t do away with the need to run a good antivirus program and firewall on your PC. But it provides a solid layer of free protection that no PC should do without.”
PCWorld