Retina™

The Network Security Scanner

Superior Vulnerability Detection & Remediation

An attacker need only detect one weakness to breach your network and take control; in other words, every potential security weakness must be identified — and secured — in order to protect your company’s digital assets.

Created by eEye Digital Security, a leading developer of advanced network security products, Retina Network Security Scanner is recognized as the best scanner on the market. Retina sets the standard in terms of speed, ease of use, reporting, non-intrusiveness and advanced scanning capabilities using AI technology. Retina can scan every machine on your network, including a variety of operating systems, networked devices and third-party or custom applications, all in record time. After scanning, Retina delivers a comprehensive report that details all vulnerabilities on your systems and suggests appropriate fixes such as downloading related patches or using Retina’s automatic repair capabilities.

Because eEye is a recognized digital security research powerhouse, Retina incorporates the most comprehensive and up-to-date vulnerabilities database. eEye’s almost daily stream of vulnerability updates can be automatically downloaded at the beginning of every Retina session. In addition to scanning against the most complete database of known vulnerabilities, Retina’s unique, artificial intelligence technology — called Common Hacking Attack Methods or CHAM — allows Retina to think like a hacker or network security analyst attempting to penetrate your network. In this way, Retina can actually detect previously unknown or hidden vulnerabilities, giving you the knowledge you need to better secure your networks.

Retina’s scanning engine is engineered to be faster, less intrusive, and produce better results than all other scanners available. With one of the highest levels of accuracy available, Retina can help you identify — and dramatically reduce — the number of software vulnerabilities and other weaknesses on your network. For the highest level of protection for your company’s valuable digital assets, rely on Retina.

Unrivaled Ease of Use

Despite its powerful capabilities, Retina was designed to be the easiest scanner to operate on the market. The award-winning graphical user interface provides easy control over all aspects of Retina’s scanning and reporting capabilities. Retina also features a number of automatic features that facilitate such functions as scheduling, repairing common system problems and updating the application.

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Non-Intrusive Scanning

Unlike most other security scanners on the market, eEye has gone to great lengths to design Retina with intelligent scanning techniques that are non-intrusive and do not test by exploitation during normal scanning operation. As a result, Retina can scan your network without overloading its resources and without causing systems to crash. This makes Retina especially powerful for remote scanning services.

Frequent Updates for New Vulnerabilities

Unlike many commercial scanners that are updated once a month or less, updates to Retina’s vulnerability database are available on a near-daily basis. Retina’s Auto-Update function provides easy Internet access for downloading the latest vulnerability checks from eEye Digital Security, a recognized digital security research powerhouse. Auto-Update can be launched manually or set to run automatically at the beginning of every Retina session.

Ability to Uncover Unknown Vulnerabilities

In addition to scanning against the most complete database of known vulnerabilities, Retina’s unique, artificial intelligence technology — called Common Hacker Attack Methods or CHAM — delivers a capability beyond what other security scanners can provide. With CHAM, Retina is able to think like a hacker or network security analyst attempting to penetrate your network. In this way, Retina can actually detect previously unknown or hidden vulnerabilities, giving you the knowledge you need to better secure your networks.

High-Speed Scanning Ability

Retina is recognized as the fastest security scanner on the market. It has the ability to scan every machine on your network, all types of operating systems, networked devices and third-party or custom applications in record time. In fact, Retina is able to scan an entire Class C network in about 15 minutes.

Remote Repair Capabilities

Retina’s Auto-Fix function allows you to automatically correct common system security issues such as registry settings, file permissions and more. Because Auto-Fix can function remotely across any size network, you have the freedom and flexibility of operating from a single location.

Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Vulnerabilities Database

Because eEye is a recognized digital security research powerhouse, Retina incorporates the most comprehensive and up-to-date vulnerabilities database. Along with constantly monitoring security advisories, eEye frequently has advanced knowledge of security issues due to discoveries made by its own team of security experts. In fact, the eEye research team has itself issued a number of advisories regarding major security issues that its members have personally detected. With Retina’s Auto-Update feature, this almost daily stream of vulnerability updates can be automatically downloaded at the beginning of every Retina session.

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Superior OS Detection

Retina is the first and only commercial scanner to license and incorporate the Nmap (Network Mapper) Fingerprint Database, an open-source utility for network exploration and the most complete database of OS TCP/IP stack fingerprints available. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine which hosts are available on the network, which services or ports they are offering, which operating system they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Incorporating Nmap allows Retina to perform remote operating system detection for subsequently smarter scanning.

Smart Protocol Scanning

Unlike most other security scanners, Retina does not make assumptions about typical protocols running behind specific ports such as a web server running behind Port 80. Instead, the scanner actually analyzes the input/output data on each port to determine which protocol and service is actually running. In this way, Retina makes adjustments for custom or unconventional machine setup.


Generates Highly Customized – and Customizable – Reports

Rather than providing boilerplate text, Retina automatically customizes the content of its network audit reports to reflect the severity of the vulnerabilities discovered and the level of security risk involved. You can further customize these reports by rewriting specific content and/or by incorporating your logo or other text in the header and footer sections. Retina offers two different reporting options: Technical Reports with intricate details to satisfy IT personnel and Executive Reports for high-level management summaries.

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Custom Audit Wizard

In addition to a comprehensive database of security audits, Retina’s Audit Wizard gives you the ability to create new audits to check for security vulnerabilities in custom applications or other configurations that may be unique to your network. Audit Wizard simplifies the process of building custom checks and getting them integrated into Retina for use in your very next scan.

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Advanced Scheduling Capabilities

Retina’s scheduler function allows you to set the scanner to run on a regular basis to periodically check for vulnerabilities. And because Retina is non-intrusive in its scanning operations, you can pre-schedule your scans to be run without having to worry about unplanned network downtime.

Open Architecture for Advanced Customization

Retina is built with an open architecture that allows you to develop vulnerability tests and auditing modules tailored to your organization's own specific requirements. You can also fine-tune the included audits, make custom changes to the Retina interface and more. A documented set of APIs is provided to simplify the process of building custom scans in your preferred programming language and integrating them into Retina. Retina also has a Policies Wizard that walks you through the creation of a custom scan.

Highly Engineered Scanning Engine

Retina’s scanning engine is engineered to be faster, less intrusive, and produce better results than all other scanners available. With each new feature update, Retina is fine tuned to deliver more optimized scanning for networks of all sizes and all levels of complexity.

Breadth of Systems and Services Audited

Retina runs on Windows NT/200 and XP platforms, but, unlike other scanners, it is not limited to scanning only Windows networks. In fact, Retina has the ability to scan all types of operating systems for vulnerabilities, including Unix-based operating systems (Solaris, Linux, *BSD, etc.) as well as networked devices (such as routers and firewalls) that run “home-grown” operating systems. Retina includes vulnerability auditing modules for many systems and services such as NetBIOS, HTTP, CGI and WinCGI, FTP, DNS, DoS vulnerabilities, POP3, SMTP, LDAP, TCP/IP, UDP, Registry, Services, Users and Accounts, password vulnerabilities, publishing extensions, and more. Retina also supports the auditing of wireless networks.

System Requirements

· Windows NT 4.0 SP6a/2000/XP
· Internet Explorer Version 4.01 or higher
· 64 MB of memory
· 20 MB of free disk space
· Internet connection (optional for remote scanning)