From: Juan Carlos Reyes Mu駉z (jcreyes@etb.net.co)
Date: Fri Aug 12 2005 - 11:26:00 EDT
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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?
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Brokken, Allen P. [mailto: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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