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December 19, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web assessment and defense software developer NT OBJECTives Inc. (NTOBJECTives.com) announced on Wednesday that it has introduced the Fire & Water Toolkit v1.0, a collection of command-line tools performing Web server assessment and defense.
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According to NTOBJECTives, Fire & Water provides a quick and easy way to discover and map network systems and architecture, identify Web servers vulnerable to hackers and worms, protect systems from high-risk Web vulnerabilities, trend Web security posture from a hacker’s perspective, deliver custom reports via HTML and integrate Web server security into other systems via XML.
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“While there are other products out there that can perform similar functions, there simply isn’t anything else available that helps IT administrators deal with day-to-day security concerns in such a cohesive package. The data is accurate and the reports are top notch,” said Mubashar Iqbal – CTO of Money.net.
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The Fire & Water Toolkit, says the company, includes: ntoscan, a port scanner that identifies live hosts and their open ports; ntoweb, a Web server scanner that checks for common, high-exposure vulnerabilities; ntoroute, a traceroute tool that collects data from each of the hosts; ntomap, a map generator that graphically documents the scanned network and vulnerabilities; ntotrend, an analysis tool that compares data from multiple scans; and ntowire, an IIS ISAPI filter that enforces strong security policy on Web servers.
