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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Communication with prospects, partners and customers are one of the most important pillars JDisc relies on. But not only the personal contact and the associated service are relevant here. JDisc nowadays also relies on diverse and modern communication channels, which we would like to introduce in more detail. Classically, customers and interested parties have the…
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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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What has network discovery and data quality to do with systems thinking? If you’re wondering now what is systems thinking and anyhow what is the author talking about? Then take the time and read on. We would delve today into a slightly philosophical contemplation about relations in the large and in the small. Network discovery…
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IT Service Management (ITSM) needs reliable and current data, be it for service monitoring, IT documentation or help desk systems. Therefore a reliable current network discovery with very good-quality is absolutely necessary. Like monitoring systems, a network discovery system needs privileged access to the monitored systems in the environment to fulfill its important function. Agent-less…
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Dear JDisc friends, find the German translation from our long term partner i-doit: https://www.i-doit.com/blog/log4j-linux-skript-von-jdisc/ 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…
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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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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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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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Dear JDisc friends, we understand that storing your crown jewels (administrative accounts and passwords) in products like JDisc Discovery is not something that IT security departments really like. There is always the conflict between being as secure as possible and getting current inventory information (which often requires administrative accounts). Therefore, we implemented on request from…
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