University of West Bohemia teaches Vulnerability Management Best Practices with Outpost24's OUTSCAN

KARLSKRONA, SWEDEN, August 21, 2010 (Press-News.org) Outpost24, The Technology Leader in Vulnerability Assessment and Management, today announced that the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of West Bohemia (ZCU) has signed an educational license for Outpost24's OUTSCAN solution in an effort to show students how to establish a vulnerability management program.

Since most companies today rely so heavily on IT, it's important to take the necessary steps in managing and reducing risk exposure to protect valuable assets. Students learning about vulnerability management today will have an advantage when entering the job market. OUTSCAN is an on-demand solution for perimeter vulnerability assessment and management that scans the network perimeter consisting of the same Internet-facing devices that hackers target. It's ease-of-use combined with rich functionality and a powerful vulnerability scanning engine make it a unique solution and a great educational tool.

Students using OUTSCAN will learn how to develop a vulnerability management program by establishing roles, responsibilities and goals, discovering and managing assets on a network, analyzing reports and reviewing descriptions and recommendations to make decisions about what to fix. The students will also benefit from OUTSCAN's trending features which show statistics about vulnerabilities in the network on what is changing and how things are improving over time.

Aart Strang, Sales Office Manager for Outpost24 Czech Republic, was quoted as saying:

"Outpost24 is very happy to announce the signing by ZCU, the University of West Bohemia, of an educational license for the Outpost24 Vulnerability Assessment Management solution OUTSCAN. With OUTSCAN the students can from now on make use of one of the most advanced vulnerability assessment tools available on the market. By working with the latest technology ZCU will be able to enhance the level of IT security education and the students will be familiar with the use of the most sophisticated IT security solutions used in the market today. Unauthorized access to IT networks is rapidly becoming one of the primary threats to any operational network and is the cause of significant and increasing damage to its owners, therefore being able to offer the highest level of education in the field of IT security is critically important to ZCU and to the Czech economy."

About Technical University of Plzen
The University of West Bohemia is located in Pilsen, the Czech Republic. It is the only institution of higher education in West Bohemia which prepares students for careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer science, applied mathematics, physics, mechanics), education (for both primary and secondary school teachers in a wide range of subjects), fine arts, economics, humanities (philosophy, sociology, foreign languages, social and cultural anthropology, archaeology), law and public administration.

The Institute of Technology in Pilsen was founded in 1949 as a branch of the Czech Technical University in Prague. In 1953 it became an independent institution with its own rector and began to grow rapidly. In 1960 it was divided into two faculties - the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Apart from the traditional field of study, such as power electrical engineering, the Faculty of E.E. has gradually been introducing new fields focusing on electronics, applications of computers, telecommunications, and commercial electrical engineering, thus continuously reflecting the latest trends in engineering and the need for professionals who are well educated in diverse areas of modern electrical engineering.

About Outpost24
Outpost24 is the technology leader in on-demand vulnerability assessment and management solutions with over 1,000 corporate and government customers, including Travelex, Delta Lloyd Group, ING Life Limited, University of Helsinki, and Deloitte. Outpost24 is headquartered in Sweden with a global network of local sales offices.

Outpost24 delivers security solutions in a Software-as-a-Service (OUTSCAN & OUTSCAN PCI ) or Appliance (HIAB ) form factor. Outpost24's solutions provide fully automated network vulnerability scanning, easily interpreted reports, and vulnerability management tools. OUTSCAN PCI is the ideal tool for businesses of all sizes to achieve and demonstrate PCI DSS compliance.

Outpost24's solutions can be deployed in a matter of hours, anywhere in the world, providing customers an immediate view of their security and compliance posture. OUTSCAN is the most widely deployed On-Demand security solution in Europe, performing scans for over 1000 customers last year. For more information, please visit http://www.outpost24.com.