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[Discuss] Penetration testing



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAINT_(software)

Derived from SATAN.

Also handy:
http://www.openvas.org/



*Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) *


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Chris Wallace <cbwcjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, since I work for "a consulting company" that seems very attractive ;)
>
> You could try OWASP ZAP, but again that's a little raw.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:26 PM, scottmarydavidsam at gmail.com <
> scottmarydavidsam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We need to run security / vulnerability scans against our web server and
> > business application (on the same server), I'm looking for suggestion,
> pro
> > and con on scanning tools and any concerns (legal?) around using them.
> The
> > tools don't need to be free but should cost less than $1000.
> >
> > I'm open to learning to use the tools, I've tried Metasploit, NeXpose and
> > Nmap but I'm not sure I have the time and the output data provided seems
> a
> > bit raw.
> >
> > I'm also looking at Acunetix, they have a cloud based vulnerability
> > scanner, you get three scans for $810.
> >
> > Any help or suggestions other than "hire a consulting company" would be
> > appreciated we just don't have the budget to do that right now.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
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>
>
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