Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: Web application security scanners
From: Steve Brukbacher <sab2 () UWM EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:48:01 -0600
Our auditors purchased Nexpose by Rapid 7 as a sort of all in one vulnerability scanner. http://www.rapid7.com/ Why did we buy it? Well it does a little bit of everything. HIPAA, PCI, web apps, pen testing. Does it do each as well as some specialized products? Maybe not but it's working well for us. Its really easy to use too and does very nice reporting. I have it set up to do regularly scheduled scans and it then emails those to the server admins. It also gives you the CVE for specific vulnerabilities and explains general how-to's for fixing common vulnerabilities. I could get you more info from our auditor if you are interested. -- Steve Brukbacher, CISSP University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Information Security Coordinator UWM Computer Security Web Site www.security.uwm.edu Phone: 414.229.2224 Brad Judy wrote:
We're starting to look into web application security scanning tools and I wanted to ping the group and see what people found when looking into this for themselves and what motivated their selection. After some initial digging, it looks like most people lean towards Spidynamics' WebInspect or Watchfire's AppScan. I plan on looking into both of those. Obviously, none of these products are the end-all-be-all of web app security, but they do address the basic need of common web app coding errors for an initial level of validation of both in-house developed apps as well as pre-purchase testing of commercial apps. So, what did you learn when looking into this space, what did you select and why? Thanks, Brad Judy IT Security Office Information Technology Services University of Colorado at Boulder
Current thread:
- Web application security scanners Brad Judy (Jan 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Web application security scanners Steve Brukbacher (Jan 18)
- Re: Web application security scanners Lovaas,Steven R (Jan 18)
- Re: Web application security scanners Chris Green (Jan 18)
- Re: Web application security scanners Lovaas,Steven R (Jan 18)