Faraday: continuous scanning

by faraday 10 years ago

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Doing a security audit for your infrastructure, web site or services whether it be annually or every six months is a great first step to better securing your systems, but in many cases it is not enough.

Adding to that, if the audit only involves one tool, our attack surface unfortunately is pretty small.

The idea of this post is to tell everyone about how to use the Faraday platform to be able to do continuous scannings using almost all the auditing tools on the market.

The goal will be to do a scan every week or by events after a set of targets with different tools and obtain all the results on your Faraday platform. This should allow you to detect and mitigate new issues in your infrastructure.

While it is always necessary to conduct regular manual security audits (at least for the time being the software is not better than people). By doing continuous scannings it can help a company pick off a lot of the low hanging fruit and let them concentrate on trickier stuff.

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