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PTHelper: An open source tool to support the Penetration Testing process

Cryptography and Security 2024-06-13 v1

Abstract

Offensive security is one of the state of the art measures to protect enterprises and organizations. Penetration testing, broadly called pentesting, is a branch of offensive security designed to find, rate and exploit these vulnerabilities, in order to assess the security posture of an organization. This process is often time-consuming and the quantity of information that pentesters need to manage might also be difficult to handle. This project takes a practical approach to solve the automation of pentesting and proposes a usable tool, called PTHelper. This open-source tool has been designed in a modular way to be easily upgradable by the pentesting community, and uses state of the art tools and artificial intelligence to achieve its objective.

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@article{arxiv.2406.08242,
  title  = {PTHelper: An open source tool to support the Penetration Testing process},
  author = {Jacobo Casado de Gracia and Alfonso Sánchez-Macián},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08242},
  year   = {2024}
}
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