AUTOMATED COMPUTER SYSTEM SECURITY COMPROMISE

• Main Authors: QUESADA, RICARDO, BURRONI, JAVIER, RICHARTE, GERARDO GABRIEL, FRIEDMAN, AUGUSTIN AZUBEL, FRIEDRICHS, OLIVER, CACERES, MAXIMILIANO GERARDO, LEIDL, BRUCE, AJZENMAN, GUSTAVO, NOTARFRANCESCO, LUCIANO, BECEDILLAS, GABRIEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 23.01.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A system is provided for performing penetration testing of a target computer network by installing a remote agent (120) in the target computer network (100). The system includes a local agent (135) provided in a computer consol e (105) and configured to receive and execute commands. A user interface (150) is provided in the console and configured to send commands to and receive information from the local agent (135), process the information, and present the processed information. A database (155) is configured to store the information received from the local agent. A network interface (140) is connected to the local agent and configured to communicate with the remote agent installed in the target computer network (100) via a network (110). Security vulnerability exploitation modules are provided for execution by th e local agent (135) and/or the remote agent (130).