Mu Security, a leader in the security analysis space, today announced a new certification program called MUSIC (Mu Security Industrial Control). If you haven’t heard of Mu Security before, take a look at this Hack Report article, in a nutshell, Mu Security’s appliances automate the security testing an analysis of an IP-based product or application against a whole array of attack scenarios. In other words anyone who needs to test systems, software or appliances against vulnerabilities on ongoing basis will benfit from Mu’s appliances. The list of of Mu’s customers includes network equipment manufacturers like Motorola, Juniper, Alcatel or F5 and service providers like Sprint.
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Some people call it “a hacker in a box”, “DOS attack in a box”, or “vulnerability torture chamber”, the official name is Mu-4000. An appliance produced by one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups. Mu Security, today announced an important enhancement for their Security analyzer.

What the automobile industry has been doing for a long time – crashing a car into a wall and see what happens, is gaining increasing support amongst companies and organizations that want to proactively test their products against every imaginable type of attack. It’s called negative testing and Mu Security’s tagline could also be – “We break stuff”. Once unleashed, it’ll create a fury of attack scenarios that will only stop once it knocked the target object off the network.
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