Host discovery using twigs

As described in the earlier blog article – Getting started with twigs, one of the discovery modes supported by twigs is host discovery. In the host discovery mode, twigs will collect required metadata from the host to perform no-scan vulnerability assessments. The host discovery mode supports local and remote discovery. Local refers to discovery of the […]

Getting started with ‘twigs’

Introduction The bedrock of asset discovery in ThreatWatch is ‘twigs’ (short for ThreatWatch Inventory Gathering Script). twigs is a python based open source utility script maintained by ThreatWatch. twigs aims to provide a simple extensible interface to all types of assets and asset management systems in order to discover the metadata required by ThreatWatch to […]

Avoid vulnerability creep via 3rd party softwares

Earlier last month NIST released a draft copy of CyberSecurity White paper titled “Mitigating the risk of Software Vulnerabilities by adopting a Secure Software Development Framework [SSDF]” for comments. The paper highlights how few software development lifecycle [SDLC] models explicitly address software security in detail and it recommends a core set of high-level secure software […]