Author Archives: Alexander Leonov

About Alexander Leonov

Hi! My name is Alexander and I am a Vulnerability Management specialist. You can read more about me here. Currently, the best way to follow me is my Telegram channel @avleonovcom. I update it more often than this site. If you haven't used Telegram yet, give it a try. It's great. You can discuss my posts or ask questions at @avleonovchat. А всех русскоязычных я приглашаю в ещё один телеграмм канал @avleonovrus, первым делом теперь пишу туда.

An introduction to Rapid7 Nexpose API

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An introduction to Rapid7 Nexpose API. Another nice thing about Nexpose is that this vulnerability scanner has an open API. And even free Nexpose Community Edition supports it.

Rapid7 Nexpose API

It’s a really generous gift from Rapid7. That means that you can use Nexpose to scan your environment, easily manage it from your scripts and make any vulnerability assessment and remediation logic you need.

I haven’t found manuals about using Nexpose API to automate basic vulnerability management tasks and decided to write my own. Hope somebody will find it useful. All examples will be in form of curl requests.

Working with Nexpose API is nothing more than sending xml Post-requests to the https://[Nexpose Host]:3780/api/[API Version]/xml and receiving xml responses.
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Testing Rapid7 Nexpose CE vulnerability scanner

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Testing Rapid7 Nexpose CE vulnerability scanner. Today I want to write about another great vulnerability management solution – Nexpose Community Edition by Rapid7. What makes it special? Nexpose CE is a fully functional network vulnerability scanner that can be used for free not only by home users (Nessus Home, for example, has such restrictions), but also by the companies.

Nexpose Community Edition by Rapid7

However, the company should be quite small. By using Nexpose Community Edition you have a permission to scan only 32 ip addresses. But it could be any kind of host: Linux and Windows, Unix and network equipment. And you can scan it as often as you like, with different profiles and produce wide range of reports.

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Altx-Soft ComplianceCheck against cryptolockers and ransomware

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Altx-Soft ComplianceCheck against cryptolockers and ransomware. ComplianceChecker is a free Compliance Management tool made by Altx-Soft, a security product company from Moscow Region, Russia. Altx-Soft is known abroad mainly as a Top OVAL Contributor, they have been on award-list every quarter since 2012. Their flagman product, RedCheck, is a SCAP-compatible vulnerability and compliance scanner. They also produce family of “Check”-products for controlling and managing Windows operating systems.

Altx-Soft ComplianceChecker scanning results

ComplianceChecker is a promo product for the potential RedCheck buyers. It similar to RedCheck with the most management features cutted off. It can scan only the localhost.

ComplianceChecker is positioned mainly as an utility for SOHO/Home users and it’s not a secret, that on this market Compliance Management solutions are still an exotic. How could they attract the attention of an ordinary people? Altx-Soft took the hottest security topic of 2014-2015 – cryplockers and ransomware, that nowadays are the real threat for literally all kind of platform and especially Windows desktops. Altx-Soft tried to spread the message, that the best way to protect operating system from this kind of malware is to configure it properly. And it’s hard to disagree. So, they made a tool for the security assessment – ComplianceChecker, and made some other tools configure to operating systems (free for RedCheck users). Continue reading →

Testing Secpod Saner Personal vulnerability scanner

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Testing Secpod Saner Personal vulnerability scanner. SecPod Technologies is an information security products company located in Bangalore, India. They are also known as top OVAL Contributor and NVT vendor for OpenVAS. Besides the products designed for a big enterprises (vulnerability scanner Saner Business and threat intelligence platform Ancor), they have either vulnerability and compliance management solution for personal use – Saner Personal. And personal means that this scanner will scan only localhost. It’s free, SCAP-compatible, it has remediation capabilities. And it works. =)

Secpod Saner Personal scanning results

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Hello!

Hello! Thanks for visiting my website! Glad to see you here.

I have been working in information security since 2009, specializing in Vulnerability Management, Compliance Management, custom security automation and metrics. You can read more about my career path in LinkedIn.

All my Open Source projects are on Github. I am currently focusing mainly on my vulnerability prioritization tool Vulristics (read the posts about it).

I publish my posts in audio-video format as well. Here is my Youtube channel and you can open this podcast feed url in the podcast player (or try to search for “AVLEONOV Podcast”).

My main messenger is Telegram, and I have several projects there:

  • @avleonovcom – main channel with all the stuff
  • @avleonovrus – мой русскоязычный канал, обновляется чаще (my telegram channel in Russian)
  • @avleonovchat – our community; feel free to ask your questions there
  • @avleonovnews – channel with the latest security news; updates automatically

My pages in social networks:

My email: me@avleonov.com