The Foundstone SiteDigger 2.0 tool, released yesterday, uses Google's search system to help businesses detect vulnerabilities that could cause their information to leak on the web.
According to Mark Curphy, director of consultancy services for McAfee, SiteDigger 2.0 is eight times more powerful than its predecessor (released in August 2004) to identify the risk of information loss.
This tool uses data collected through Google to quickly identify threats to passwords, personal information, financial records and confidential documents ... on business websites they do not want to reveal. to the public.
Google's powerful search system has recently been used by bad guys to exploit information from defective systems, most notably the recent discovery of thousands of security cameras in the index system. of the online search engine. Therefore, the purpose of the automatic update tool SiteDigger 2.0 is to detect the tricks of exploiting the search engine. SiteDigger 2.0 is available for free download here
In addition to SiteDigger 2.0, McAfee has also released Entercept 5.1 intrusion detection system , designed to block attacks identified through signature detection and digital signature authentication. This solution covers the entire enterprise network, including from desktops, laptops to high-end servers. Entercept 5.1 allows dispersed units of a business to manage a global Entercept system. The ePolicy Orchestrator management utility in this tool can support up to 250,000 individual Entercept components.
Entercept 5.1 supports Windows XP Service Pack 2 and can be tailor-made for enterprise-wide corporate security as well as web-based applications, combining all the security processes of different units into one. a single environment.
