DEFENSICS™ 3.0
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Overview and History
Take Your Security Testing to a New Level
Since 2001, Codenomicon DEFENSICS™ test platform has been applying fuzzing techniques to provide preemptive security testing for network equipment manufacturers, operators, consumer electronics companies, enterprises and governmental organizations.
Codenomicon's heritage lies in university research, in the OUSPG/PROTOS research project started in 1996. During the last 12 years, both in academia and in a commercial environment, our world-class group of researchers has brought to life multiple ground-breaking advances in the field of software security and quality assurance. The original PROTOS research was pioneering work which raised awareness about software vulnerabilities both in technical and governmental communities. PROTOS represents the first systematic method for finding vulnerabilities in bulk.
True to the pioneering spirit of our academic research background, Codenomicon has been defining the way for preemptive security testing ever since, being the first company to roll out commercial standard tools for such areas as wireless protocol and digital media format testing. Today, DEFENSICS™ remains unparalleled both in breadth of protocol coverage and efficiency of finding new flaws, covering more than 140 interfaces and remaining the winner in head-to-head bakeoffs against other fuzzing technologies.
In the world of fuzzing, even the best can do better. Codenomicon DEFENSICS™ 3.0 bundles our accumulated experience from the past decade and takes security testing to a completely new level. The single most important aspect of fuzzers and security testing tools is their ability to find software vulnerabilities before the tested product hits the market. Improving test coverage and efficiency even further than before has been a key goal in the development of DEFENSICS™ 3.0. During the process, even our own researchers have been amazed by the amount of new flaws DEFENSICS™ 3.0 is finding from test targets which have previously been thought well-hardened.
In addition to improved efficiency, DEFENSICS™ 3.0 introduces several major enhancements in the areas of productivity, usability, and root cause analysis. DEFENSICS™ 3.0 is also easier to integrate with customer testing frameworks and test control systems. With the all-new DEFENSICS™ 3.0 tests, users can both extend the testing capabilities from what is offered by default, but also enjoy from an improved out-of-the-box experience. Our Test Case Editing feature provides a targeted approach for testing highly specific protocol areas, whereas the Instrumentation Script Library feature enables additional means for monitoring and controlling the system under test and test execution itself. A complete rewrite of our GUI provides a dashboard view with full control over multiple test runs with multiple protocols and file formats. Advances in reporting as well as the adoption of industry standard scoring mechanisms such as CVSS and CWE aid in assessing the severity and root cause of any found problems.
To support the launch of the DEFENSICS™ 3.0 platform, Codenomicon is proud to also announce upcoming support for several new and exiting protocols and digital media formats such as WiMAX, STUN, TURN, vCal, iCal, vCard, OCSP, SOAP, XMPP, and many more.
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