Dear JDisc friends, as usual, we are working on enhancing our discovery product to support more and more cloud platforms. With the coming release (5118), we have added the Google Cloud Platform to our scan capabilities. The first release gets the Google Cloud structure (domains, folders, projects, regions, and zones) as well as the virtual[...]

We have created a series of videos to explain the basic concepts of the new user interfaces that reached public preview.

Dear JDisc friends, with the coming build 5136, we have implemented a new feature to the Security and Dependency Mapping Add-On. As you might know, the Dependency Add-On detects the list of open TCP/IP and UDP ports. A customer asked us whether we could get information about the SSL certificates and encryption algorithms for each[...]

Dear JDisc user, have you already been asked by your IT security department not to use local or domain users with administrator rights on Windows computers for network discovery? Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t offer Linux-like privilege elevation methods like SU or SUDO. Of course, security folks want you to embrace the principle of least privilege (PoLP)[...]

Dear JDisc users, As usual, we are constantly enhancing our data collection capabilities. This time, we have enhanced our security add-on to collect information about the SSH cipher, MAC, and key-exchange algorithms. When the security add-on is installed and licensed, the discovery configuration dialog offers a new setting for security-related data collections. When JDisc Discovery[...]