“A legacy workhorse for compliance scanning, overshadowed by more agile and comprehensive platforms.”
However, for organizations embracing DevOps, cloud-native architectures, continuous monitoring, and modern risk prioritization (exploit prediction, asset context, attack simulation), BeSECURE is no longer competitive. It is a product of an earlier era in vulnerability management—functional, but not future-proof. globalscape besecure
This piece explores BeSECURE’s architecture, capabilities, market positioning, strengths, weaknesses, and its place in a world increasingly dominated by cloud-native, agent-based, and continuous threat exposure management platforms. To understand BeSECURE, one must understand its lineage. It originated as Retina , a flagship product of eEye Digital Security, a pioneer in vulnerability research. eEye was famous for discovering critical flaws in Microsoft’s codebase and for building Retina as a high-fidelity network scanner. In 2012, BeyondTrust acquired eEye, and Retina became BeyondTrust Retina . To understand BeSECURE, one must understand its lineage