Continental is one of the leading suppliers for breaking systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics, tyres, and technical elastomer. Offering comprehensive know-how in tyre and brake technology, vehicle dynamics control, electronics, and sensor systems with the aim of making individual mobility safer and more comfortable.

Facilities exist in more than 100 locations (manufacturing facilities, research centers, and test tracks) in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK, and the USA.

The company reached a turn-over of €12.6 billion in 2004 and currently employs 81,000 people worldwide.

Chief Security Officer of Continental AG:
"The ever increasing number of vulnerabilities in software, and consequently attacks, forced Continental AG to reconsider vulnerability management from an annoying side issue for IT operations to an essential discipline. Therefore vulnerability management became essential for the the survival of the IT infrastructure as a whole.

The challenge for Continental AG was that our system is based on a variety of implemented components and versions and in a large corporation such as ours, manual vulnerability management was no longer possible.

Secunia's Enterprise Security Manager helps us to handle the risks originated in vulnerabilities. The easy to use operation allows an implementation without extensive training. The intuitive system of the vulnerability management fades into the background, and the focus is to deal with the actual vulnerabilities. Secunia delivers alerts within qualified advisories and compiles concise reports for relevant infrastructure components.

Each administrator is able to add his systems to the database through the web based interface. The status information are managed through the same on-line interface. The tailor made vulnerability advisories are received via email and SMS alerts.

Information about each of the systems is held in the Enterprise Security Manager at a central location and therefore gives an overview of the security level for the entire infrastructure. Consequently, problems can be identified quickly and eliminated immediately".

About the Secunia Enterprise Security Manager solution
Whether you handle security from a centralised unit or have a distributed environment, Secunia can help your organisation through management and distribution of vulnerability intelligence.

The Enterprise Security Manager is designed to help large organisations with fast and efficient tracking of vulnerability intelligence. It also aims to prevent several employees wasting time and effort investigating the same vulnerability or keeping track of a large amount of sources of vulnerability intelligence.