OT: vulnerability scanner (TARA)

[Jamie Bohr]

Hello All,

Does any one use TARA?  The company I work for uses TARA for Linux and SunOS
and an internal tool for HP-UX.  I will be starting a Senior capstone class
for college soon and was wondering how useful would an update to TARA be to
the Open Source community.  I invision it as a client-server application
where either the client or server can initiate a scan and the results go
into a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL).  From the DB risk acceptance filters
can be applied and reports (Web & email) can be generated.  The web
interface could generate reports for each site or support region.  This
could be used by managment to see how security compliant a given region is.


The DB could also have tables in it to support determining how patch
compliant systems are.  I would like the DB flexable enough to support other
security concerns in the furture.

I would like to hear your thoughts on how useful this would be before I
spend a lot of time working on it.  Of cource it also comes down to if the
professor will accept it as a project.

-- 
Jamie Bohr
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