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Audit network devices with ease
Assessing security posture of network devices like routers and firewalls can become a nightmare when a security practitioner is faced with tens of devices with hundreds (sometimes thousands) of lines of configuration data to go through. Manually going through the entire configuration data may not always be the right course of action especially when faced with tight deadlines.
There is help available and it comes in the form of automation tools that can make our life easier. I will discuss a couple of tools that I have worked with and how they can support in auditing and vulnerability assessment activities. Read the rest of this entry
A Google for your network infrastructure?
Paglo, a totally free “world’s first search engine for IT”, is a web-based service that lets IT professionals search their own IT infrastructure assets. I signed up for the beta in November last year but only received the invitation earlier this month.
Information about the target network is gathered by a software agent, Paglo crawler, which installs on a standard computer connected to the network. The crawler can put together an exhaustive set of information about network hosts with information such as device type, device name, IP address, installed software, disk space usage and so on. The crawler uploads the information to Paglo’s data center for storage and indexing. This information can later be retrieved through a web-based interface. Read the rest of this entry
