Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts

Friday, 21 October 2011

What is OSSAMS?


As information security professionals, we conduct security assessments for companies. One of the biggest problems we have is after all the data is collected, how can we correlate the data accurately. So we decided to start a project to solve this problem, and we are calling it Open Source Security Assessment Management System (OSSAMS). OSSAMS is a framework for putting configuration files, security scan data files (like Nessus), and other data collected, during a security assessment or penetration test, into a RDBMS.


The framework is going to be designed in a fashion similar to Metasploit, SNORT, or other systems that allow the security community to create plugins for new tasks as needed. The primary goal of OSSAMS is to normalize the data, there by allowing the security professional to better assess the current state of security for an organization.
Completed:
acunetix, burp, grendel, nessus, netsparker, nexpose community, nikto, nmap, ratproxy, retina community, skipfish, sslscan, w3af, wapiti, watcher, websecurify, zap.
Roadmap:
Appscan, arachni, core impact, fierce, httprint, iss, languard, metasploit, ncircle, nexpose, n-stalker, ntospider, openvas, proxystrike, retina, saint, sandcat, webcruiser, webinspect, wsfuzzer…
Requires:
Python > 2.5;
Python-mysqldb; and
Lxml.
Download OSSAMS Alpha

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Check your Browser security



Microsoft launched a website today designed to give users a detailed look at how secure their browser is. The site, called Your Browser Matters, automatically detects the visitor's browser and returns a browser security score on a scale of four points.

When you visit the site, called Your Browser Matters, it allows you to see a score for the browser you’re using. Well, if you’re using IE, Chrome, or Firefox—other browsers are excluded. Not surprisingly, Microsoft’s latest release, Internet Explorer 9, gets a perfect 4 out of 4:
If you visit the site with the most recent public releases of Firefox or Google Chrome, however, the results are less than perfect. Here, for example, are the detailed results for Chrome 14 and Firefox 7:
Microsoft's new site is primarily intended to encourage users of older versions of Internet Explorer to upgrade. The bane of the existence of Web developers everywhere, Internet Explorer 6, only gets one point. To its credit, Microsoft has gone to great lengths to ensure that the next version of its browser is both secure and compliant with Web standards.