Chris Sullo

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Chris Sullo is the CFO and Treasurer of Open Security Foundation. He is a distinguished security expert known as the author of Nikto scanner. He is specialised in web-security and pen-testing.

Contents 1 OSVDB 2 Nikto 3 Security Advisories 4 References

[edit] OSVDB

He is acting as a Moderator and Vulnerability Manger of OSVDB. ^[1] He has been a mentor of Google Summer Code since OSVDB was accepted as a mentor organization for Google's Summer of Code 2006. He currently handles and approves all new vulnerabilities that are added to the database as well as manages the web checks. In addition, Chris is co-founder and Treasurer of the Open Security Foundation.

[edit] Nikto

Chris Sullo is the author of Nikto, the leading open source web security assessment tool. It is an open source web server scanner. Nikto is known to perform comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over thousands of potentially dangerous files or CGI scripts, etc.

[edit] Security Advisories

He has long been involved with the world of electronic crime and security. He has also published a few security advisories. One of his noteworthy advisory was a CIRT advisory on cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. ^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ ["http://www.osvdb.org/contributors.php" "OSVDB Contributors"].
2. ^ ["http://www.cirt.net/advisories/cpanel_xss.shtml" "Advisory: cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities"].