Andrew Freeborn

Managing a large environment has a great deal of challenges, but DNS hostname resolution should not be one of them. Incorrect mappings of hostnames to IP addresses can cause problems such as obtaining incorrect results from Nessus scans. This report can assist analysts and administrators to identify hosts within the organization to correctly associate hostnames with the correct IP addresses.

Malware presents a risk to any organization and comes packaged in many forms. Many times, malware takes advantage of published vulnerabilities to infiltrate organizations before patches can be deployed. With this dashboard, organizations can gain operational awareness of vulnerabilities that are exploited by malware within their network.

Many organizations have a difficult time keeping software completely up to date with patches due to the frequency in which they are released. Outstanding vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers, which can result in business outages or loss of revenue. This dashboard identifies hosts in the organization with vulnerabilities published more than 30 days ago.

A new host on the network should not be an unexpected nor unplanned activity. This dashboard provides information such as new hosts on the network to help administrators and analysts with situational awareness. The detailed information provided by this dashboard on new hosts and related alerts can help keep analysts knowledgeable of host-based events in the environment.