CIS


Cerberus' Internet Scanner

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CIS is a free security scanner written and maintained by Cerberus Information Security, Ltd and is designed to help administrators locate and fix security holes in their computer systems. This tool is a must! Click here for a screen shot. Runs on Windows NT or 2000. 
Features: 

* Takes a modular approach. Each scan module is implemented as a DLL so when
an update to a particular module occurs the user only needs to download the
updated DLL. Added to this the user can choose which modules they want to
run.

* Comprehensive  - pushing around 300 checks. As far as scanning web servers
goes CIS is one of the best. When compared against the market leading
scanners
CIS usually finds more security issues.

* Hidden Command line capability - run scans in the background. This means
that if a user wants to scan a large number of hosts they can implement this
in a batch file and once a scan has started control is returned to the
command prompt so the next and subsequent scans can start immediatley.
C:\CIS\>cis host

* Scan modules include WWW, SQL, ftp, various NT checks, SMTP, POP3, DNS,
finger and more

* Backed by one of the World's best security teams, the CST (Cerberus
Security Team).

* Reports generated are HTML based with hyper-text links to more information

* Easy to use Graphical User Interface

* Multi-threaded so scan time is minimized.

* Light on memory usage

* Updated on a very regular basis

* Currently CIS 5 is FREE! A commercial version of CIS, version 6, is
currently under development and should be available at the end of July 2000.

