Can your systems really benefit from penetration testing?
My system was clearly under attack. But by whom? Then I remembered: I had asked SPI Dynamics to unleash its website auditing tool, WebInspect, against my home server. Not just any auditing tool, WebInspect is specifically designed for penetration testing Web-based applications. The program uses a Web spider to map out every page on the server, examines each page for Web errors that an outsider could exploit, and then tries to exploit them.
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