DHS Inspector General to use WebInspect 7 software
The software’s developers maintain that WebInspect 7 is better suited than rival software packages to keep pace with conditions prevailing in the fast-moving IT Security marketplace.
"If you look at the Web application scanning market today, you see a lot of products, most of which got their start around 1999 and pretty much everything since has followed the same pattern – (1) Crawl, (2) Audit, (3) Report," explains SPI Dynamics on its Web site. "We knew we needed a new way to analyze Web applications and the old legacy (1) Crawl, (2) Audit, (3) Report process had to go."
WebInspect 7 introduced what SPI Dynamics (now part of Hewlett-Packard) has called "Simultaneous Crawl and Audit" (SCA), which can point out vulnerabilities on a Web site immediately.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Public Debt, which issued a presolicitation notice for the software on behalf of the DHS inspector general’s office on February 28, expects to purchase this software for one user for a one-year base period plus four optional years.
"Simultaneous crawl and audit combines application crawl and audit phases into a single fluid process," said the presolicitation notice. "The scan is refined based on real-time audit findings, resulting in a comprehensive view of an entire Web application’s attack surface."
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