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The Applied Security Task Force sponsors a security pilot using eEye software – a suite of products that identifies and helps protect
against security threats to networks and computing systems. The goals
of the project are to increase overall campus IT security, to have some
advance warning of vulnerabilities, and to develop best practices for
IT security.
There
are five packages included within the eEye software suite:
- Retina -- This software scans for known vulnerabilities to operating
systems.
- Iris -- This sniffing software helps reconstruct data traffic and
troubleshoot problems.
- Secure IIS -- This web firewall software works at the application-level
to protect web servers and their applications from known vulnerabilities.
- Blink -- This is a host intrusion-prevention software.
- Retina Enterprise Manager (REM) -- This is the management console.
Through the pilot, eEye is making available to the campus its software tools and expertise at no cost. In exchange, UCLA is sharing its experience with eEye products deployed in a real-life large, diverse network ecosystem. As part of the pilot, servers -- which identify vulnerabilities and aggregate, categorize and measure the data collected by eEye products -- will be installed in pilot units. The servers will provide much greater capability for UCLA to profile the overall campus IT security landscape and for individual pilot units to profile their own security landscape at a granular level.
"The eEye pilot is attractive because it is the first time that we'll have overall visibility into the vulnerabilities facing the highly distributed UCLA environment," said Jim Davis, UCLA's Chief Information Officer. "With the Applied Security Task Force running the pilot, we're not only trying out a specialized software that we hope will prove valuable to the campus, we're also harnessing some of the excellent IT expertise from departments across campus and using that expertise in a cohesive way to benefit the campus.
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