Theres been alot of discussion lately about an issue thats near and dear to my heart. The capabilities and of web application security scanning is something I have been living and breathing for about 5 years with NT OBJECTIves. AT NTO I lead the development and research teams involved in building our own scanner called NTOSpider,  and have been trying to increase what is possible to test for in an automated tool.

This is a really difficult and challenging issue, with a bunch of issues that are fuzzy at best. I have high hopes that the WASSEC Project thats being hosted by the Web Application Security Consortium, because its going to bring a bunch of us from the app sec tool vendor space and the web app sec community  together to discuss the issue and attempt to come up with a good reference document for the ways to evaluate scanners.

I’m curious how we will be able to come up with any consensus, but with any luck and some hard work and compromise I think this could be a turning point to helping public understanding of this issue.