Eoin & The Security

  The cyber security industry is full of solutions to make you more secure. Some are unproven and other approaches work if deployed properly. Our industry is very fragmented. for example a recent "Cyber Defense" award I noticed has 195 categories!  I suppose we need to ask ourselves as companies from time to time why we do what we do?  So, the following post is, I guess, the reason we developed Edgescan and why we believe its a decent solution to help organizations improve and be more resilient in relation to cyber security and system protection.... Vulnerability scanning alone did not work. The idea of software testing software for vulnerabilities is a good one but both sides of the equation may have bugs. Bugs in one side (The target) may result in vulnerabilities, whilst bugs on the other side (Scanner) may result in false negatives and false positives.  Accuracy : To that end we built edgescan as a combination of automation to discover vulnerabilities at scale bu...

Our Traditional approach to penetration testing, even large scale global penetration testing is to perform an annual/bi-annual pen test on our web applications. Question is who said once a year is enough? Most applications undergo at least quarterly updates and changes if not to provide value for customers but to ensure the web applications are fresh and to address any (hopefully) minor bugs. Cyber attackers can perform a continuous scan on your site to detect changes (code drops) and probe such changes to assess if any vulnerability has been introduced. Why do we think it is acceptable to perform a time-limited test of an application to help ensure security when a determined attacker may spend 10-100 times longer attempting to find a suitable vulnerability. The main reasons for a one-off test per year are simply economics: Testing takes resources Resources cost money Resources are scarce Push to deploy is stronger than push to secure Organisa...