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Design goals
Vulnerability checking plug-in description
Vulnerability checking plug-in list
Output modes description
Core overview
Readme file
System requirements
Slideshow overview of Ferret (PDF format)
A. Sharma, J. R. Martin, N. Anand, M. Cukier, and W. H. Sanders, "Ferret: A Host Vulnerability Checking Tool", Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC-10), Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, March 3-5, 2004, to appear. (PDF format)

The Ferret project has been supported by DARPA contract F30602-00-C-0172, NSF ITR contract 0086096, and NSF CAREER award 0237493. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Research Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Maryland DARPA project network security tool Ferret Security Auditing Toolset evaluate current security state individual host security concerns individual host Unix OS architecture specific plug-ins PERL existing vulnerabilities Unix based Linux Sun Solaris HP-UX Michel Cukier Nitin Anand Anil Sharma unix perl unix security information security vulnerability analysis intrusion detection virtual private network firewalls patches anti virus authentication design principles