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JDisc Discovery scans Kubernetes Cluster
Dear JDisc users, we haven’t written new blog posts for a while due to the efforts to redesign our website. But, now as the new web page is released, we are going to continue to inform about new features, developments, or changes in the network discovery universe… Today, I would like to highlight a new[...]
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JDisc Discovery integrates PAM Solution Passwordstate
Companies use more and more PAM (Privileged Access Management) tools to store, manage and rotate passwords for essential accounts (like domain admin accounts or root accounts for important servers). Especially rotating passwords make a manual configuration within JDisc Discovery impossible. Therefore, JDisc has integrated three password managers (Cyberark, Thychotic, Microsoft LAPS) into JDisc Discovery. Within[...]
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JDisc Discovery Web UI: Scanner new features & updates
Dear JDisc friends, It has been a long time since the last update on the progress of our new JDisc Discovery Web UI. However, this does not mean that we paused working on it. On the contrary, you may have already noticed – if you are following our release notes or if you are subscribed[...]
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LOG4J – Linux & Windows Script to identify log4j Vulnerability
Dear JDisc friends, find the German translation from our long-term partner i-doit: https://www.i-doit.com/en/blog/jdisc-and-i-doit-it-service-management-with-discovery-and-cmdb/ I think everyone is busy figuring out if any applications are affected by the log4j security issue. While this may be easy for commercial applications, the vulnerability can be difficult to find for custom applications that are hosted in your data centers.[...]
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JDisc Discovery and Log4j – CVE-2021-44228
Dear JDisc users, I am pretty sure that you are aware of the log4j security issue CVE-2021-44228. JDisc Discovery is mainly written in Java and we have investigated whether we are affected. One external library (yavijava – a library to access VMware ESX and VSphere servers) uses log4j in version 1.2.17. We have investigated the[...]
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Verify Passwords
In order to scan devices properly, JDisc Discovery users need to configure access credentials. For security reasons, we do not display the passwords in clear text (neither in the UI nor in the logs). But how do you verify that you made no mistake when you entered the password? Misconfigured passwords lead to an access[...]
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Pending Updates
Dear JDisc friends, upon a customer request, we have implemented a new feature to collect the list of pending updates on Windows and Linux computers. Three weeks ago, we added this feature for Linux and with build 5086 we finalized the data collection for Windows computers. We hope that this data helps to keep your[...]
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JDisc Discovery integrates with Thycotic’s SecretServer
Dear JDisc users, just recently, we have added support for the CyberArk solution for managing accounts and passwords within your enterprise. Due to customer requests, we have integrated the Thycotic second password management tool. Your passwords are no longer stored within JDisc Discovery’s database but stay in the Thycotic SecretServer. JDisc Discovery only requests the[...]
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Local User Password Information
Dear JDisc Users, we have extended our Security Add-On to collect information about local users and their password information. The issue with local users is that they are difficult to control. For users who are part of a Windows domain, it is pretty simple to configure policies to change the password on a regular basis.[...]
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