Unsupported Product Summary

The proliferation of unsupported and end-of-life products is an issue for many organizations and increases the effort required to minimize risk. As applications and operating systems reach their end-of-life (EOL), vendors stop offering support. Therefore, security and stability decrease, raising concern as time progresses. Patches, updates and security fixes will no longer be available, so identifying systems running EOL applications is an important part of assessing and minimizing organizational risk.

This dashboard collection is comprised of seven components that report on unsupported (end-of-life) products found in the environment. Components include indicators, bar graphs, pie-charts and tables to display, track and report on unsupported operating systems and applications.

Vulnerability data is filtered using a variety of plugins, such as Nessus plugin 33850, Unsupported Unix Operating System. By searching the vulnerability text for keywords, plugin family, severity, and OS CPE strings, Tenable.sc Continuous View (CV) can better present the data to the security analyst. Using these examples, the analyst can copy the components and create new components specific to the organization’s needs.

Tenable provides continuous network monitoring to identify vulnerabilities, reduce risk, and ensure compliance. Tenable.sc CV allows for the most comprehensive and integrated view of network health. Nessus is the global standard in detecting and assessing network data.

The dashboard and its components are available in the Tenable.sc Feed, a comprehensive collection of dashboards, reports, assurance report cards and assets. The dashboard can be easily located in the Tenable.sc Feed under the category Threat Detection & Vulnerability Assessments.

The dashboard requirements are:

• Tenable.sc 4.8.1
• Nessus 8.10.1

Components include:

• Unsupported Operating Systems - This indicator matrix reports on operating systems that are no longer supported. The matrix displays popular operating systems, but is easily modified to fit organizational requirements. Plugin ID #33850, with vulnerability text filters that filter for the appropriate operating system name in the plugin output, alert on Unix-based operating systems that are no longer supported. Vulnerability text, along with a CPE string for Microsoft, is used to alert on end-of-life Microsoft operating systems by turning the indicator purple when an alert is present.
• Unsupported Applications by Type and Percentage - This bar chart component produces a graph on the percentage of unsupported applications and operating systems in the environment sorted product type, such as database servers, web servers, operating systems, or applications. In this component, a base query with a vulnerability text filter is utilized with the key word of ‘unsupported’, along with additional filters for the plugin family. This allows a chart to be displayed that presents the percentage of unsupported or end-of-life applications by type, and categorized by either operating system or application.
• Unsupported Applications - This table displays all unsupported applications by name, sorted by severity. Displayed is the plugin ID, application name, plugin family, severity, and the total found. This component identifies unsupported applications by the ‘unsupported’ vulnerability text. The table also filters on severity, dropping any informational results, and presents them via the Vulnerability Summary tool.
• Security End of Life Summary - This table displays displays products that have entered the Security End of Life state of the Security Maintenance Lifecycle. Displayed is the plugin name, severity, and total count. SEoL is the state in Security Maintenance Lifecycle when a product no longer receives security updates. For more information, please refer to the Security End-of-Life Plugins FAQ.  
• Security End of Life by Product Family - This bar chart presents a graphical representation of products that have entered the Security End of Life state of the Security Maintenance Lifecycle. Displayed is a bar for each plugin family. SEoL is the state in Security Maintenance Lifecycle when a product no longer receives security updates. Tenable implements a holistic approach to detecting products consistent with this definition.
• Unsupported *nix OS - This table displays all unsupported Unix-based operating systems. Displayed are the IP address, NetBIOS identifier, DNS name, MAC address, and repository of the offending device. This component identifies unsupported *nix operating systems by the Nessus plugin 33850 (Unix OS No Longer Supported) operating systems via the IP Summary tool.
• Unsupported Microsoft OS - This table displays all unsupported Microsoft operating systems. Displayed are the IP address, NetBIOS identifier, DNS name, MAC address, and repository of the offending device. This component identifies unsupported Microsoft operating systems by the ‘unsupported’ vulnerability text and the base CPE string to identify Microsoft operating systems via the IP Summary tool.