Category: Application Service Discovery
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Application Service Discovery – Week 15
Most of the work of this project has been concluded, a new module needs to be written which can manage the other three modules written: active discovery, passive discovery, and the mapping module. This manager module is fairly straightforward: initialise whatever files needed, execute the modules whenever needed, and make they continue executing based on […]
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Application Service Discovery – Week 9
Classify the discovered services, by attaching a tag name to each. Establish relationships between various services by looking at TCP port, IP address. Draw a dependency map after all relationships are established. Finally, show not only the dependency map, but a detailed list of all established relationships between services, servers, and hosts.
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Application Service Discovery – Week 8
I have extended the module to support a few more applications this week. I had to go back and change the pattern recognition methodology for wordpress and MySQL server (see previous week post) as they were not working for all cases.
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Application Service Discovery – Week 6
Last week when I was trying to read data from packets, I came across a lot of garbled or unreadable data. I thought I could be unpacking the packets wrong, but I verified that I wasn’t. I realised that that data was just encrypted data and thus, unless I had the session keys as well, […]
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Application Service Discovery – Week 5
After finishing a basic pcap parser that discovers web-servers running in a network, I wrote a simple wireshark-like program in python that can capture any packet either on the specified interface or on all interfaces.
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Application Service Discovery – Week 4
After collecting data by using Wireshark, I started thinking of ways to identify services and hosts in the network.
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Application Service Discovery – Week 2
How does ServiceNow service discovery work? Agentless discovery Two parts: Communications Data collection and processing
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Application Service Discovery – Week 1
DigitalOcean has an excellent series on The Docker Ecosystem, and part 3 of this series explains the general concepts of Application Service Discovery (ASD). I’d recommend it to anyone who has no clue what ASD is, and wants to understand it, from a fairly abstract point of view.
