Archived SAINT News

6/17/04
SAINT Releases WebSAINT® 2.0 on-line scanner.
The new version includes scheduling, license flexibility, and more scanning options.

4/14/04
SAINT's partners with Stony Hill Mgmt.
This partnership brings vulnerability scanning solutions to the home healthcare and hospice markets.

3/16/04
SAINT Introduces SAINTbox™
SAINT Corporation's new plug and play network scanning appliance comes ready to scan.

3/04
MITRE Corporation awards SAINT®5 CVE Compatibility Certificate.
During an awards ceremony at the 13th Annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, SAINT® was honored along with nine other companies out of more than 90 vendors, for their work in this effort and passing the final and most rigorous phase of the compatibility process.

12/03
PC Magazine awards SAINT®5 4 stars.
PC Magazine's reviewers discuss SAINT's easy installation, comprehensive scan results, and "extrordinary" reports in this review.

10/03
SecureMac.com gives SAINT high marks.
SecureMac.com reviewers discuss the "staggering amount of vulnerabilities" SAINT includes as well as the professionalism of SAINT reports.

7/03
SAINT Corporation announces the release of SAINT® 5.0.
This release features easy navigation tabs; scan stop, pause, and resume capabilities, and ability to recover interrupted scans; an option to view results in progress while scan runs; "Exclude All" option to exclude all instances of a particular vulnerability;reorganized documentation, with index and search capabilities; ability to sort hosts by software type (e.g. IIS, Apache, Sendmail);e-mail notification; support for Mac OS X.

11/02
IAVA references added to the SAINT scanner.
SAINT Corporation announced today that SAINT® 4.1 will include Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert vulnerability (IAVA) assessments.

10/02
SAINT Corporation announces the release of SAINT® 4.0.
The new release features all-new vulnerability checks, automatic updates, and comprehensive reporting features.

2/28/02
SAINT™ is Finalist for Top Security Award.
Information Security magazine has named SAINT® network security products as a finalist for its 2002 Information Security Excellence Awards.

3/2001
SysAdmin Magazine gives SAINT a favorable review.
The author reports that SAINT™ "...is definitely a great tool to have..."

11/2000
"A Survey of the Basic Functionality of SAINT" SANS Institute Information Security Reading Room reports: "...SAINT is one of a growing number of auditing tools available to security administrators. What differentiates it from the rest is its multiple modes of operation, configurable scan levels, and good reporting tools...Overall SAINT is an excellent tool for the auditing of networks and hosts.”

2/2000
"Securing Linux", Information Security, refers to SAINT™ as a scanner that is "indispensable for checking system vulnerabilities."

1/30/2000
"Why Linux Security Will Succeed", linux.com, refers to SAINT™ as "a popular vulnerability scanner ... that is a highly evolved version of its predecessor SATAN."

2/8/1999
"Network Security Scanners", InfoWorld Magazine, (February 8, 1999 Vol. 21,
Issue 6), refers to SAINT™ as "one of the only publicly available products that leverages the SATAN platform."