December 10, 2001—Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), a provider of eBusiness management solutions is offering a free security assessment service to North American companies. This service will enable IT managers to better understand their business’ vulnerability to a wide spectrum of security threats.
CA is offering this service in response to growing cyber-security concerns prompted by recent attacks against the nation’s physical and economic infrastructures. The assessment provides insights into key areas of eBusiness security, including:
- Perimeter defense mechanisms
- Remote access services
- Access to internal resources
- Data protection schemes
- Total security architecture
- Emergency response process
- Incident response handling
- Adherence to security policies
- Security awareness of employees
CA Services security experts perform the assessment remotely and present a report to customers within 48 hours of the scan. The report enumerates discovered security holes, such as bad configurations, obsolete user IDs, lack of software patches, old releases of code, and unused or insecure communication services. It includes both an executive-level summary outlining probabilities and consequences of discovered vulnerabilities and a more technically detailed section for network and systems administrators. For more information, contact CA.
