Core Security ships Core Insight Enterprise with broad security assessment capabilities

Core Insight Enterprise

Core Security Technologies, a provider of IT security test and measurement software solutions, announced on Dec. 13 the official release of its Core Insight Enterprise. Following a successful beta program, which included more than a dozen Fortune 500 firms and top-level U.S. Government agencies, the launch realizes Core Security’s vision of enabling customers to continuously identify and prove real-world exposures to critical assets across the entire organization through automated testing of network systems, Web applications, and users in one completely integrated solution, says the company in a press release it issued on Dec. 10.

With Core Insight, customers gain real visibility into their security standing, real validation of their security controls and real metrics to more effectively secure their organizations. The solution employs groundbreaking technology that proactively replicates the steps attackers would take to breach valuable information assets.

Unlike other solutions, Core Insight Enterprise starts with customers identifying which systems and data they want most to protect. Insight then automatically calculates paths of attack and then begins to exploit multiple layers of defense until the security of critical assets is either confirmed or breached. Assessment results are delivered via a dashboard and reports that present metrics regarding the efficacy of security controls in terms relevant to the business.

Core Insight Enterprise provides IT security leaders with an automated and continuous view of IT security risk for the very first time.

“Using Core Insight Enterprise to test across our IT infrastructure on a continual basis has given us an entirely new way of looking at whether or not our most critical IT systems and electronic data are protected from real-world attacks,” said Larry Whiteside, chief information security officer of the Visiting Nurses Service of New York. “Just as importantly, it tells us how well our existing defenses are functioning and what type of return we’re getting from our previous security investments.”

“Core Insight Enterprise changes how enterprises should view security,” said Charles Kolodgy, research vice president for Security Products at IDC. “It makes security goal oriented by allowing security professionals to determine if their critical assets are vulnerable.”

 Core Insight builds upon the expanding demand and established innovation of Core Impact, a penetration testing software product, now in its 11^th version, said the company. While Impact is the software application of choice among thousands of security testing professionals, Core Insight creates the opportunity to test and measure exposures in a comprehensive and realistic manner.