Re: Open Source Application Vulnerability Assessment Tools

["Aman Raheja" <araheja () techquotes com>]

Some tools are listed here

http://sectools.org/web-scanners.html

Aman Raheja, CISSP
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:40:19 -0500, "Brokken, Allen P." 
<BrokkenA () missouri edu> wrote :

>       
> On this list we talk a lot about various vendor provided tools quite a
> bit.  In general it appears most solutions are Windows-centric in their
> installation even if they work against multiple platforms.  
>
> With the prevalence of LAMP systems I would figure there must be some
> means of doing a security assessment on their applications with native
> tools.  It seems odd to me that there isn't a NESSUS equivalent for
> application testing.  I'm wondering what is available from the Open
> Source community in the way of
>
> * Black Box web assessment software
> * Source code assessment software
> * Assessment management software
>
> I'm more looking for names/urls to projects than I am for any
> comparisons or descriptions.
>
> Allen Brokken
>
> Information Security and Account Management - IAT Services - University
> of Missouri -brokkena () missouri edu - (573)884-8708
>
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