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Startup Prepares Cracker Attack Emulator
Startup.Blog writes "A startup company MuSecurity is shipping a product that emulates multitude of known attacks and integrates the security checks into quality assurance processes. The company 'will soon begin selling a new vulnerability assessment product that lets technology vendors and enterprise developers test their products with known hacker techniques, allowing them to fix bugs before products are put into use.'"
They are making it sound like checking for these things before systems go into production is a new concept.
You make it sound like hyperbole in marketting is something outrageous and previously unheard of.
It's a company, fer crissake. If it were an academic research group making out that they had invented a new concept, then that would be different and your criticism would be more valid.
If their product has no technical novelty, then your remarks should be directed at Slasdot editors for accepting it as News For Nerds. The company seems to be offering another competing product in this market. And that surely is A Good Thing.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
Almost all the staff is ex-Juniper. Talk about running off with corporate assets
I'm sorry to say, but it takes less.
It takes less than is necessary to download a firewall and an anti-virus program, which was something I had to do recently. Unimaginable fun.
Ignore this signature. By order.
So pay the experts for the really creative stuff and get the robot to do the 'basic' drudge work. Once your product has passed the robot then have the experts look at it.
If it doesn't get passed the robot then you just saved a bunch of money by not bothering the expensive experts. If it does get passed the robot, then hopefully the so-called experts will no what its already passed and will focus their expensive time on being 'creative'.
We generally let our compilers proof-read our code for errors before we have it peer-reviewed. This could be the same thing. No point in wasting someones time to find flaws that the machine can find on its own.
MuSecurity looks like MicroSecurity (picture the little-mu greek character in front). Or, in ISO units, "very little security". Strange choice for a name.