Re: RE: Application Assessment

[RUI PEREIRA - WCG <wavefront1 () shaw ca>]

Juan,

Approx 1 year ago we did an evaluation between Appscan, Kavado, WebInspect and AppDetective. We chose WebInspect for 
the range of vulnerabilities tested for, the granularity of test selection, the flexibility of use, etc. Contact me 
offline if you want more detail on our selection process.

Thank You

Rui Pereira,B.Sc.(Hons),CIPS ISP,CISSP,CISA
Principal Consultant

WaveFront Consulting Group
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals

wavefront1 () shaw ca | 1 (604) 961-0701


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From: Juan Carlos Reyes Muñoz <jcreyes () etb net co>
Date: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:26 am
Subject: RE: Application Assessment

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> Allen,
>
> One question... have you ever tried Watchfire's Appscan? If so, 
> which tool
> could be better between Appscan and Webinspect?
>
> Juan Carlos Reyes Muñoz
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> > De: Brokken, Allen P. [BrokkenA () missouri edu]
> > Enviado el: Jueves, 11 de Agosto de 2005 01:43 p.m.
> > Para: Glyn Geoghegan; goenw
> > CC: pen-test () securityfocus com; Webappsec
> > Asunto: RE: Application Assessment
> >
> > I am a Security Analyst for the University of Missouri - 
> Columbia Campus.
> > I came from a systems administration background, and in the past 
> 18 months
> > have been tasked with application security as just part of a greater
> > Information Systems Auditing program.
> >
> > I personally have used
> >
> > SpikeProxy from www.insecure.org
> > Paros, mentioned by others
> > and evaluated a handful of other Proxy/Automated Attack Methods.
> >
> > However, the best tool I've seen and the one we finally 
> purchased is
> > WebInspect from SPI Dynamics
> > http://www.spidynamics.com
> >
> > I did some independent test between SpikeProxy and WebInspect on 
> the a few
> > different applications.  With SpikeProxy it took basically 1 
> working day
> > to run the tool, and verify false positives, look up good 
> references for
> > the vulnerabilities and write the report.  The same application with
> > WebInspect took approximately 15 minutes of my time to 
> configure, and
> > generate the final report while taking about 2 hours to actually run
> > without my intervention.  It typically found 20% more 
> vulnerabilities than
> > I could find by the more manual method with SpikeProxy, and produced
> > extensive reports that not only explained the vulnerabilities, 
> but gave
> > code references the developers could use to fix their problem.
> >
> > Those were results I got prior to training.  I got some 
> extensive training
> > with the tool and on web application testing in general at 
> Security-PS
> > http://www.securityps.com.  They are a Professional Application 
> Security> auditing company and they use this as their core tool 
> because of both the
> > accuracy of the tool and the responsiveness of the company.  In the
> > training I got to learn how to effectively use the a whole suite 
> of tools
> > including a Web Brute force attacker, SQL Injector, Proxy, 
> Encoders /
> > Decoders, and Web Service assessment tools to name a few.
> >
> > The tool is a little pricey, but I work with litterally dozens 
> of campus
> > departments and have evaluated LAMP, JAVA/ORACLE, ASP.NET/SQL 
> Server and
> > even VBScript/Access systems with the WebInspect Suite of tools. 
> The #1
> > comment I get from the developers is how helpful the report was in
> > correcting their code. For that broad spectrum of coding 
> enviroments I
> > couldn't possibly provide code level help to the developers 
> without this
> > product.
> >
> > We've been using it now for almost a year and the responsiveness 
> of their
> > Sales and Technial staff has been extreme.  I haven't had a 
> single issue
> > that wasn't resolved in less than 24 hours.  I've also gotten a 
> lot of
> > support from their sales staff regarding application security 
> awareness> for our campus developers in general.
> > One last thing to mention is the updates.  I have never seen a 
> tool that
> > is so consistently updated.  I have run 2 or 3 assessments in 
> the same day
> > and had updates for new vulnerabilities made available each time 
> I ran the
> > tool.  If a week goes by without using it there can be 
> litterally 100's of
> > new signatures it needs to add to the list.
> >
> > If you have more questions and want to talk offline I'd be happy 
> to answer
> > them.
> >
> > Allen Brokken
> > Systems Security Analyst - Principal
> > Univeristy of Missouri
> > brokkena () missouri edu
>
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