PT BlackBox Scanner allows website owners to find vulnerabilities which are increasingly used by hackers as first point of breach
Positive Technologies have proved yet again, their dedication to provide free tools back to the cybersecurity community. In an announcement this week, Positive Technologies revealed the availability of beta testing on a free online service – giving businesses an efficient and effective way to uncover issues in their website applications.
By simply entering the sites URL into a web-based interface, the PT Black Box allows users to immediately begin a free scan, which works by tunnelling all requests through the user’s machine, confirming origination. Alternatively, they can validate their own website, by simply placing a confirmation code in the sites root directory prior to the scan.
As Yury Maskimov (CEO of Positive Technologies) explains, “Website application vulnerabilities are now one of the most common ways that cyber-attackers compromise companies. In a world where the increasing majority of business is now run on code, this is a big problem. For companies, both big and small, it means legal and financial risk. For people, the possibility of having personal details exposed and fraud.” This suggests that by providing the BlackBox scanner for free, Positive Technologies is allowing companies to take initiative and control of the growing threat facing their websites today.
With over 15 years of expertise in application security, this is not the first-time Positive Technologies has provided free tools like the Backbox scanner; in fact, it traces all the way back to their roots, when in 2000, they launched the popular vulnerability scanner ‘Xspider’.
“We believe in trying to put security back on the front foot, allowing people to be proactive and find the weak points in their infrastructure before an attacker does. We also believe in drawing on our expertise to help make the online world a safer place, which is why we are providing BlackBox Scanner for free, letting people take the initiative back and have more control over the security of their website.”
For more information on BlackBox Scanner, or to use the service, visit http://bbs.ptsecurity.com/en
