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I sure hope that someone will. I do not have access these devices, neither do I have any inclination to buying their commercial product in order to verify their
by elmo2you 7y ago
I sure hope that someone will. I do not have access these devices, neither do I have any inclination to buying their commercial product in order to verify their claims.
Maybe their product is brilliant, and/or maybe they did a lot of manual verification of their automated scans, in which case their report could be accurate (though still hard to verify).
That said, my experience with both static analysis and runtime security scanner is less than stellar. They are without a doubt useful tools, if not indispensable. But they usually generate more leads for further (manual) analyses, rather than generate (accurate) final verdicts.
Granted that pen-testing is a different animal (but one I have more experience with), I often have had to explain to customers that the reports they got from security auditing companies were full of false conclusion. More often than not because those companies were relying/trusting too much on automatically generated results, in addition to them trying to sell additional services. So, forgive me if I'm skeptical.
That Finite State apparently has a stake of their own here (promotion of their product), which makes me only less inclined towards giving them the benefit of a doubt.
As I mentioned before, this is of course all speculation on my part. Still, until Finite State publishes their factual/detailed scan results, I believe I have every reason to consider that this might be either a political motivated report, or more likely be an attempt to use/abuse the current political climate to promote their own product and services.