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While security professionals tend to shy away from cloud-based solu- tions, those with less stringent security requirements can really benefit from the ease of deployment those types of solutions offer. Secunia's Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) is one such solution, enabling users to leverage its signature-based vulnerability scanner via installable software agents and/or a simple-to-use web-based console.
As the solution is cloud based, the setup was minimal. After logging in to the website, we downloaded an Internet Explorer plugin and refreshed the page. From there, we were able to conduct our first scan. While setting up the System Center and WSUS integration was slightly more involved, it was nothing exces- sive and easily accomplished by following the included documentation.
All in all, we had our...