At heart, BrowserCheck Business Edition is a business-oriented version of the useful BrowserCheck tool the company made available to single users last year. Employees install a plug-in from a custom URL which gathers data on installed plugins and browser versions, alerting admins to which are out of date and offering a link to updated versions.
The major difference with the business version is that employees conduct scans through a single unique URL in a way that gives admins a consolidated view of the results for an entire organisation over time.
The focus on browser insecurity is justified, Qualys said. Only last month, research by the company showed that browser plugins for common applications such as Adobe Flash and Reader and Java now accounted for the majority of software flaws that targeted by criminals.
"Bad browsers and bad plugins are the major entry point for malware today," said Qualys CTO, Wolfgang Kandek. "Small companies are [especially] affected by this." More
