Hi Allen,
On 28 Sep 2006, at 02:40, Brokken, Allen P. wrote:
On this list we talk a lot about various vendor provided tools quite a
bit. In general it appears most solutions are Windows-centric in
their
installation even if they work against multiple platforms.
With the prevalence of LAMP systems I would figure there must be some
means of doing a security assessment on their applications with native
tools. It seems odd to me that there isn't a NESSUS equivalent for
application testing. I'm wondering what is available from the Open
Source community in the way of
* Black Box web assessment software
- Paros (www.parosproxy.org) - Java based, does automated spidering
and scanning
- WebScarab (www.owasp.org) - Java based, more manual approach, very
flexible and includes a beanshell console
- Burp (http://www.portswigger.net/proxy/)
- Odysseus proxy http://www.wastelands.gen.nz/odysseus/index.php
- Spike proxy http://www.immunitysec.com/resources-freesoftware.shtml
- and many more
* Source code assessment software
- LAPSE Source code analysis, for scanning Java applications
(http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_LAPSE_Project)
- Findbugs, Checkstyle, PMD (you can google them), all source code
analysis tools for finding common Java software bugs, have some
elementary security tests but are fully customisable so you can
easily write your own signatures.
regards,
--
Stephen de Vries
Corsaire Ltd
E-mail: stephen@corsaire.com
Tel: +44 1483 226014
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