Pen Testing Software

Core Security has recently launched new software named Core Insight Enterprise that can help keep a company’s computer systems more secure. Called penetration testing software, this product is designed to detect potential risks to computer systems by attempting to gain access to them. The company claims that this product will be better than the current scanners and security products that are on the market today because of the amount and quality of information that it will provide. As Core Security CEO Mark Hatton said, “You're not just going out and hiring a crazy guy with earrings to do pen tests anymore. We're giving you actionable information and solving that disconnect between what security teams are doing and what the business side wants them to do."

The Insight software will give users detailed information through a dashboard which will display a system’s basic security status and the progress of current penetration tests as well as store this information over time. The device will get this information by, like a white hat hacker, checking for access points to sensitive data in the system. If a path to the data is found, the dashboard will display the steps that were taken by the software to steal the data, hopefully giving the company the information that they need to fix the problem. As Hatton explained, the “tool was designed to make it easier for security professionals to create understandable metrics out of vulnerability data for executives and auditors.” Core Security hopes that their software will be able to detect more than the average scanner, checking things such as network configuration and server connections.

In the future, Core Security hopes that their software will be able to work together with information from security logs and vulnerability and patching data from other vendors. It will be interesting to see how this software fares in the market and if it really does have a significant impact on the security of computer systems.

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