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The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a method for using specific standards to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation of systems deployed in an organization, including e.g., FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act, 2002) compliance. The National Vulnerability Database ...
This is a list of available software and hardware tools that are designed for or are particularly suited to various kinds of security assessment and security testing. Operating systems and tool suites
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language. Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) is an international, information security, community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services.
Python. PyCharm – Cross-platform Python IDE with code inspections available for analyzing code on-the-fly in the editor and bulk analysis of the whole project. PyDev – Eclipse-based Python IDE with code analysis available on-the-fly in the editor or at save time. Pylint – Static code analyzer.
Yasca is an open source program which looks for security vulnerabilities, code-quality, performance, and conformance to best practices in program source code. It leverages external open source programs, such as FindBugs, PMD, JLint, JavaScript Lint, PHPLint, Cppcheck, ClamAV, Pixy, and RATS to scan specific file types, [1] and also contains ...
Burp Suite. Burp Suite is a proprietary software tool for security assessment and penetration testing of web applications. [1][2] It software was initially developed in 2003-2006 by Dafydd Stuttard [3] to automate his own security testing needs, after realizing the capabilities of automatable web tools like Selenium. [4]
Purpose of security assessment. The goal of a security assessment (also known as a security audit, security review, or network assessment [1]), is to ensure that necessary security controls are integrated into the design and implementation of a project. A properly completed security assessment should provide documentation outlining any security ...
Dynamic application security testing (DAST) represents a non-functional testing process to identify security weaknesses and vulnerabilities in an application. This testing process can be carried out either manually or by using automated tools. Manual assessment of an application involves human intervention to identify the security flaws which ...