SandCat Web Scanner 3.3 available
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Sandcat allows web administrators to perform aggressive and comprehensive scans of an organization’s web server to isolate vulnerabilities and identify security holes. The Sandcat scanner requires basic inputs such as host names, start URLs and port numbers to scan a complete web site and test all the web applications for security vulnerabilitiesSandcat provides more than 30,000 security checks for all leading web server platforms
Provides over 260 web application security checks, covering over 38 types of web security attacks — a target server can be local or remote
Crawls web sites and detects cross-site scripting, directory transversal problems, attempts to execute commands and multiple other attacks
Scans web servers for the SANS Top Twenty (C1), the OWASP Top 10 and the OWASP PHP Top 5 vulnerabilities
Allows to scan for specific vulnerabilities, such as Fault Injection, SQL Injection and XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerabilities
Allows to define a range or list of IP addresses to be scanned
Allows to define multiple start URLs
Allows to perform destructive and non-destructive scans
Allows to edit the crawling depth: maximum number of links per server, maximum links per page, maximum URL length and maximum response size and more
Allows to create user signatures for detecting application vulnerabilities
Prevents logout
Tests intrusion detection systems
Exploits AJAX-based web applications
Supports host authentication (basic and web form authentication)
Supports OSVDB, NVD, CVE and CWE
Stores and allows you to view the HTTP request and response for each successful test
Automatically discovers and analyzes the server’s configuration to determine which tests are needed
Analyzes robots.txt file and javascript
Includes a Baseline Security Scanner — ensures security against outdated server software
Expansion Tools - Sandcat® Log Analyzer and Sandcat® Hardener
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20 November 2007 : SandCat Web Scanner 3.3 available
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1 May 2007 : SandCat version 3.08 just released
30 April 2007 : SandCat version 3.07 released
9 February 2007 : SandCat 3.0.5 released
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