RE: FW: Tools comparison and evaluation question (AppScan)

["Erwin Geirnaert" <egeirnaert () securityinnovation be>]

Nobody played with HailStorm from Cenzic yet?
> From my personal experience: it looks great and has a good performance
to scan web apps. It allows to automate certain things like boundary
testing, privilege escalation or bypass authorization. 

Because I do a lot of manual security testing with open-source tools, I
don't like tools that only scan things by fuzzing parameters and show a
lot of false positives. If I can't see how attacks are executed and I
can't customize the attack patterns it has no usage for me.

All depends on what you are looking for: low hanging fruit or an
assessment tool that can be used and shared in the development phase by
developers nd testers.

I hope that the project at Owasp about the web app scan market (is it a
project or an individual initiative?) is able to shed some light on the
real power of commercial tools. I can imagine that when you need
automated assessment tools and only can rely on Google or banners on
security sites (or even mailing list adds :)) to learn about these
products, you don't know what to choose.

Erwin




-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Wood [mailto:peterw () firstbase co uk] 
Sent: vrijdag 17 februari 2006 16:06
To: webappsec () securityfocus com
Cc: Charles'
Subject: Re: FW: Tools comparison and evaluation question (AppScan)

We use WebInspect on a daily basis too, and have done so since version
1.0.  It's an excellent tool with some excellent (and constantly
improving) utilities.

Pete

At 13:46 17/02/2006 +0000, Xyberpix wrote:
> I use WebInspect pretty much ona  daily basis, and wouldn't trade it
> for anything.
> As far as tools go, it really is a worthwhile addition.
>
> xyberpix
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Burke, Charles
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 7:47 AM
> > To: 'Serg Belokamen'
> > Subject: RE: Tools comparison and evaluation question (AppScan)  >>
> > Also, WebInspect is a very good (commercial) tool.  It also includes
> > some invaluable utilities (Sql Injector, etc) that are a step above
> > their open source competitors.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Serg Belokamen [serg.belokamen () gmail com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:04 AM
> > To: webappsec () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Tools comparison and evaluation question (AppScan)  >>  >>
> > Hi All,  >>  >>I am currently looking at using/evaluating a tool
called AppScan (by  >>watchfire.com).
> > So the question is in two parts and ASAP reply would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > First:
> > Without starting a flame war (hopefully) or marketing campaign
(another
> > hopefully) can any one tell me abut their experience with the
software,  >>what you find useful about it, what not, any annoyances,
missing  >>functionality, etc.
> > Second:
> > Can anyone recommend any simular type of software, preferably open
> > source (although not at all essential), and describe its performance,
> > usability and "usefulness" so to speak using AppScan as a reference
> > point.
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >       Serg


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