Metasploit Creator HD Moore's Latest Hack: IT Assets

Metasploit Creator HD Moore's Latest Hack: IT Assets
Moore has built a network asset discovery tool that wasn't intended to be a pure security tool, but it addresses a glaring security problem.

HD Moore, famed developer of the wildly popular Metasploit penetration testing tool, is about to go commercial with a new project he originally envisioned would give him a nice break from security.


Moore's IT asset discovery tool. Rumble Network Discovery. aims to solve one of the most basic yet confounding problems organizations face and have faced for years: getting a true inventory of all of the devices and services running in their increasingly diverse and growing networks. Misconfigured systems. misconfigured network settings, and unknown unpatched devices sitting on the network are among the most common weak links that expose enterprises today to attacks and data breaches. It's a problem getting exacerbated now with the official — and sometimes unofficial — arrival of Internet of Things (IoT) devices on networks.


The renowned security expert, who over the years has also conducted eye-opening research on millions of exposed corporate devices sitting vulnerable on the public Internet, had been bumping up against the network discovery process when building his security tools.


"Every time I've written a security product ... Metasploit Pro or working on the [Rapid7] Nexpose product, or my prior vulnerability management [tools] I worked on at DDI [Digital Defense Inc.] and BreakingPoint, the very first step of running these things is building a great discovery engine. I never felt like we had enough time," says Moore, founder and CEO of Critical Research Corp., and vice president of research and development at Atredis Partners.




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