Mitsubishi Electric develops world’s first penetration-test support tool, CATSploit, to generate lists of possible attack scenarios and their effectiveness automatically.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has developed the world’s first penetration-test support tool, CATSploit, which automatically generates attack scenarios based on the test objectives of a penetration tester, such as the theft of confidential information, further evaluating the effectiveness of test attacks.
With the ever-growing risk of cyber vulnerabilities in the last few years, the need to implement security measures in connected systems has become an essential defence mechanism against cyber attacks.
ISA/IEC 62443 standards require that fuzzing and penetration security tests be performed on systems and equipment to evaluate their resistance to cyberattacks, including vulnerabilities due to implementation or configuration errors.
However, penetration testing is highly sophisticated and requires the involvement of white-hat hackers to attack the system or product being tested. However, such individuals, who must possess very high levels of expertise, are scarce and difficult to find.
Even inexperienced security engineers can easily perform penetration tests using the attack scenarios and resulting test scores.
