29/08-06   -   Press releases

Secunia fighting the battle against vulnerabilities

- World leading security community takes on the fight by providing an improved vulnerability portal with publicly accessible data to help the fight.

Danish security research organisation Secunia states that the rise in the number of discovered vulnerabilities in the period July 2004 to July 2006 was 77%. And 23% of all disclosed vulnerabilities are still without a patch solution – an explosive cocktail for company assets. Now Secunia calls to arms and urges companies across the globe to secure their digital assets.

In response to the growing threat, Secunia is enhancing their public service to help.
Secunia´s publicly available Vulnerability and Advisory Portal secunia.com has effectively now been been updated to take on the fight with improved accessibility and usability, enhanced features, and improved search capabilities along with availability of extensive product reports. By visiting secunia.com, users can understand how secure a specific software program is and obtain advice on how to mitigate the risk of exploitation.

Over the years, the Secunia brand has become synonymous with credible, accurate, and reliable vulnerability intelligence and their services are used by more than 5 million unique users every year at secunia.com.

“We have had an incredible response since our launch 4 years ago, and I´m proud to say that we now have one of the most valued and visited vulnerability intelligence sites available today", says CEO and founder Niels Henrik Rasmussen. “Our objective was and still is to give vulnerability intelligence to the IT community to help fight the threat against vulnerabilities. With more than 75,000 subscribers and 5 million visitors to our site, it is time to give the IT community more by improving the accessibility and usability of our vulnerability intelligence", adds Rasmussen.

The new website will also act as a gateway to a completely new corporate portal designed to explain to corporate organisations more about specific solutions offered by Secunia. Rasmussen says “Commercial organisations have a need to pre-emptively manage the threat of being attacked. Secunia´s new corporate portal is developed to assist our clients in finding the solution that best fits their specific needs".

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About Secunia
Secunia is an independent, unbiased provider of vulnerability alerts and advisories that has been providing the global IT community with vulnerability intelligence since 2002. Secunia collects, evaluates, verifies, and analyses security information, which they make available through their database as well as distribute to their customers according to their specific requirements. Secunia is a trusted source of information recognised by users, security vendors, and analysts.