What does Secure-Me concentrate on?
Evaluating security of corporate networks cannot be done with anything so simple as an automated tool, so Secure-Me is aimed at auditing the security of a simple home PC or a simple small business gateway machine, in the context of the increase in the number of machines now hooked to the net fulltime. In this situation, the possible security loopholes are fewer, and the evaluation becomes easier to automate On the other hand however, the number of people with access to scanning tools and the amount of bandwidth they have to use them are growing, so anyone who is running an insecure service or a misconfigured computer can easily be found and “owned”. Simply put, Secure-Me gives the machine a brief scan for what open services it runs, then uses some common crack scripts and programs that are in use now by the net underground to probe for possible risks with those services. The tools Secure-Me uses are really just an automated collection of cracking scripts and programs, orchestrated to r
