Certain Lenovo computers can be hijacked by malicious websites because of security flaws in software that comes preinstalled from the factory. Tim Erlin, director of security and product management at Tripwire have the following comments on it.
[su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Tim Erlin, Director of Security and Product Management at Tripwire :
“We’ve blurred the line between hardware and software suppliers with companies like Lenovo, Apple, Samsung and HTC. When the vulnerability is in software supplied by the same company delivering the hardware, the economic impact and remediation options necessarily shift. These blurred-line companies have a vested interest in avoiding solutions that simply replace the vulnerable software with another vendor.”[/su_note]
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Tripwire is a leading provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions that enable enterprises, service providers and government agencies to confidently detect, prevent and respond to cybersecurity threats. Tripwire solutions are based on high-fidelity asset visibility and deep endpoint intelligence combined with business-context and enable security automation through enterprise integration. Tripwire’s portfolio of enterprise-class security solutions includes configuration and policy management, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability management and log intelligence.[/su_box]
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