Hand-held, wireless penetration testing tool
The eWeek security blog includes an interesting discussion of the Silica (c/o Immunity) hand-held pen testing device.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2003853,00.asp
The device has hundreds of attacks built in, and can be used by testers in a variety of ways.
The price, about $3,000 makes it an easy acquisition for attackers as well.
I like the idea of packaging up a pen testing tool box, but the value of human based penetration testing should not be discounted. The tool can only penetrate using the vectors and attacks stored in it. If the vendor is lax about adding new attacks, or the tester does not update the device regularly, critical vulnerabilities might be missed.
All in all, I’d like to get my hands on one of these for testing :)
Bill