Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform - Faraday v2.4

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time, letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time without the need for a single email. Developed with a specialized set of functionalities that helps users improve their own work, the main purpose is to re-use the available tools in the community taking advantage of them in a collaborative way!

LDAP support

Yes, Faraday’s bucket list is an item shorter as of this release! LDAP support has been on the horizon for quite some time now, but not anymore - this brand new version comes with LDAP support out of the box, no additional modules required, isn’t that neat?

Why LDAP? Well, because a great number of companies around the world use it to centralize their user account management. The protocol provides total control over the credentials in all the platforms, which comes in pretty handy when managing large volumes of data. In fact, LDAP is so popular that some companies have a policy to only use tools that support LDAP authentication.

By adding LDAP support to Faraday, we give our clients the possibility to manage larger teams, implement large-scale installations and maintain a granular and simple control over their user accounts.

In addition, using Faraday over LDAP provides better configuration than ever, allowing complex credential policies such as password expiration and quality standards, or credential lockout.

Faraday Plugin

There are some changes to the Faraday Plugin, improving its functionality by allowing users to run it through the GTK interface, performing actions in batch and filtering objects.

One of the best things about this new version of the Plugin is that you can now use it to script some of the most boring tasks needed in every assessment.

Example of task automation using Faraday Plugin - Running ping for every host that has a service on port 22

We also added a menu option to run directly from GTK!

New menu item in GTK allows users to run Fplugin without having to type anything!
Read more about FPlugin in our documentation

Details are everything

And that is what this release is all about. We believe that correcting very specific details and introducing small improvements also adds quality and efficiency to a platform like ours. So it is in those items that we focused on the last iteration.

Changes

Added LDAP support for authentication
Removed grouping by issue tracker option in status report

Added command line option to automatically install the license files before launching Faraday
Fixed bug when editing workspaces with maximum allowed workspaces reached
Improved login in Web UI
Improved the validation applied to passwords when editing them in the Web UI

Better password validation

Improved UX in users list Web UI
Improved GTK UX when the client loses connection to the server

Added link to name column in Hosts list

Host names with links

Fixed bug in SQLMap plugin that made the client freeze
Fixed bug when creating/updating Credentials
Fixed bug in the WEB UI - menu explanation bubbles were hidden behind inputs

Fixed conflict resolution when the object was deleted from another client before resolving the conflict
Improved FPlugin
Improved the installation process
Improved SQLMap plugin to support –tables and –columns options
Improved navigation in Web UI
Merged PR #137 - CScan improvements: bug fixing, change plugin format and removed unnecessary file output
Merged PR #173 - Hostnames: added hostnames to plugins
Merged PR #105 - OSint: added the possibility of using a DB other than Shodan
The Status Report now remembers the sorting column and order
Created a requirements_extras.txt file to handle optional packages for specific features