Cisco has opened up access to Kvasir, which helps penetration testers worldwide assess the security levels of computer systems at a glance.
In a blog post, Kurt Grutzmacher, solutions architect at Cisco's Security Practice Advanced Services team, said that the tool was initially created for the Cisco Systems Advanced Services Security Posture Assessment (SPA) team to keep track of the tests and data collected by the firm's penetration testers.
A pen test is a way to test a system's security standard by simulating a cyberattack.
During typical assessments of network security, pen testers may analyze between 2,000 and 10,000 hosts for vulnerabilities, perform various exploitation methods such as account enumeration and password attempts, and then they have to collect, sift through and document the results.
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