Halberd v0.2.3 available : Load balancer configuration auditing

To cope with heavy traffic loads, web site administrators often install load balancer devices. These machines hide (possibly) many real web servers behind a virtual IP. They receive HTTP requests and redirect them to the real web servers in order to share the traffic between them.

Halberd is a tool aimed at discovering real servers behind virtual IPs

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Halberd should work in any system with Python version 2.4 or above. It has been successfully built and tested under GNU/Linux, Windows 2000 and Mac OS X.

Tool submitted by Sebastien Gioria (OWASP French Chapter Leader)

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Network Discovery :

    PCI DSS 11.2, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5


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