Prognosis: Vulnerability Proliferation

With the increase of software usage worldwide, it’s only natural that a growing number of vulnerabilities will be discovered.

1999 was the inflection point for vulnerability listings. Prior to that, a variety of security tools offered different ways to categorize software security issues. As there was no standardized protocol for listing a vulnerability, inconsistencies were inevitable. In that year, the concept of common vulnerability and exposure (CVE) was introduced as a standard to represent software security flaws.

We are pleased to announce our newest partner - Etek NovaRed!

Vicarius is thrilled to introduce our newest partner - SecureLatam!

It’s not uncommon to find the traditional vulnerability assessment report buried under the CISO family picture, compliance books, and his latest blood pressure test. These reports highlight the never-ending battle between security and IT about what’s more important: risks to servers and endpoints, or keeping the environment up-to-date and secured. There are even problems within the ranks of each unit. Dysfunctional processes, lack of efficient communication, and rudimentary tools put even more pressure on the CIO and CISO.

As detection of backdoor vulnerabilities to the Android Operating System present increasingly lucrative potential, locating them has now become somewhat of a treasure hunt for hackers.

Vicarius is thrilled to introduce our newest partner- Infinity!
Infinity is a distributor and system integrator (Distributor & Value-Added IT Reseller- VAR) of leading manufacturers and developers in the field of Information, cybersecurity and IT infrastructure. Over the years, the company has worked with structures from the United States, Britain, Israel, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Greece, and others.

Infinity specializes in providing a wide range of professional services in information technology, information security, data protection, and more.
The company's main focus is on defining and implementing solutions that are based on modern and promising technologies while cooperating with leading manufacturers of such products. Vicarius being one of them!

"Vicarius will be an excellent addition to our partners at Infinity. With this partnership Vicarius opens up the door to an all-in-one vulnerability management platform, creating a wider spread of solutions for our current and new customers. We are excited to see where this partnership brings us." - says Ivan Gaidarski CEO of Infinity.

Our platform TOPIA enables companies to patch where it matters the most, and patchlessly protect the rest. TOPIA analyzes, prioritizes, and acts against possible attacks by applying patch-based or patch-less mitigation.

A recent Threatpost poll found that 40 percent of the companies transitioning to WFH experienced a spike in cyberattacks.

With the weight of the world on its shoulders, the Internet, like Atlas, has kept the sky from falling. As a pandemic moves the global workplace online, we brace for the challenges that lie ahead. Now cyber threats around the world are on the rise, targeting health, governmental and financial institutions.

In Italy alone there's been a reported staggering 30 percent increase in cyberattacks since the outbreak of the coronavirus. With our institutions more vulnerable than ever, a quarantined workforce must take proper steps and precautions to safeguard organizational apps and assets from exploitation.

Vicarius, the Israeli cyberfirm behind TOPIA, announced Friday its plans to offer remote workers free software protection and assistance for all third-party apps.

"Our expertise is identifying and blocking software vulnerabilities," said Michael Assraf, Vicarius's CEO. "This is what most remote workers need most urgently as they work from home off vulnerable networks. What we're offering remote workers isn't just nice-to-have –– it's unfortunately necessary today.

The World Health Organization issued a report Monday warning the public of WHO imposters on a vicious phishing spree. Worldometers, an international statistics tracker, said it was the target of a DDoS attack and "malicious act.” Earlier this week, the US Department of Health and Human Services suffered a severe attack. The reported damage is still unclear.

Vicarius's TOPIA identifies vulnerabilities, prioritizes threats and patchless security patching, helping security team fast-track security cycles.

Since the outbreak, the hardest hit countries have reported a 30 percent increase in cyberattacks. Vicarius provides the perfect solution by inoculating programs with a cloud-based service that is ideal for remote access.

Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. Ingecom, a value-added distributor (VAD) of specialized cybersecurity and cyber intelligence solutions, has added a new company to its portfolio: Vicarius, which focuses on protecting SMEs’ most critical apps and assets against software exploitation through its all-in-one vulnerability management platform. This solution, designed for CISOs, managed security service providers (MSSPs), and IT administrators, ensures regulatory compliance and military-level cyber protection.

In September 2019, a vulnerability has been discovered in EXIM, an open-source mail transfer agent,
which is a program responsible for receiving, routing and delivering email messages.

Today, the Vicarius team is proud to announce the close of our $5M funding round led by JVP (Jerusalem Ventures Partners), with the participation of Innogy Ventures and Goldbell Investments. This seed investment gives our team the capital injection needed to continue the design and development of many great Vicarius products like TOPIA.

So you’re at that warm, fuzzy place CISOs and IT professionals know all-too-well: There are countless vulnerabilities your organization is “theoretically” vulnerable to, for which you’d like to start implementing patches immediately to increase security, but on the other hand, you’re concerned about patches and new version releases breaking users’ functionality.

Vicarius’ TOPIA is the best-in-class enterprise software to prioritize, reduce and act against cyber risks and vulnerabilities. However, it’s main use is with corporate organizations and large-scale networks. For everyone else and for #ComputerSecurityDay, we came up with simple and easy actions you can take to reduce risk immediately, mitigate vulnerabilities, and protect your privacy and anonymity online.