An open source penetration testing kit

Mantra can in fact be described as an unofficial distribution of Firefox with some extensions bundled with it; mainly extensions that are designed for security assessments. Being based on a browser, Mantra enjoys a nice graphical user interface. It's as well compact, portable and ready to run, and it works with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. From a developer's point of view, it's an interesting platform since they can develop extensions for Mantra very easily thanks to Mozilla.

How organisations

Are there any fundamental flaws with how organisations, or the IT community in the aggregate, are approaching IT security for the moment? And do you see any new security risks on the horizon that people should be particularly alert to? For instance, the increasing use of smartphones, Cloud computing adoption to cut a long story short on.

It's true that there are no systems out there that are completely secure. However it does not mean that you shouldn't close doors of your house when going out! Instead we should employ mechanisms that can make the attacker's task tougher. Organisations need to understand how these types of attack can occur and the scale of impact they can have on business.

Smartphones and Cloud computing are both growing platforms and they are imperfect like anything else. Better security mechanisms have to be introduced and are essential in both the areas. Considering the amount of personal and confidential formation that Cloud and smartphones handle, improved security is a necessity.