Vulnerable Task Manager
Redpoint Security has long believed in contributing to the improvement of the infosec and application security industry. In that vein, our founder has spent years providing advice for infosec professionals on his Absolute AppSec podcast as well as helping organize the local OWASP meetup group on Utah’s Wasatch Front. In addition, Redpoint Security developers have contributed to and spun up open-source projects which we invite early career professionals to take advantage of in expanding their security knowledge or advancing their careers.
First among Redpoint’s open source projects is Vulnerable Task Manager, an intentionally vulnerable application that can be used to learn about basic OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities and methods for exploiting those vulnerabilities in a running application.
Redpoint uses VTM for students who take the AppSec-101 or AppSec-102 course delivered by our Redpoint Training team, but it’s also been used in Capture-the-Flag activities at regional industry conferences. In both cases, we hope it works to help people achieve their career goals if they’re interested in learning more about application security.
Hacker Tracker App
About a decade ago, our founder had noticed that hacker conferences, especially large scale ones such as DEF CON, were sometimes difficult to navigate given the amount of information one needed at hand figure out which talks to attend or even where things were taking place. From that observation, HackerTracker was born. Today, the app has an official designation with DEF CON and helps conference attends across the globe navigate a whole host of security conferences. Seth worked to create HackerTracker based on the initial realization that it could be truly beneficial, and he continues to contribute to feature development for the iOS version of the application.
Redpoint developers have also worked a number of other Open-Source projects, including an application meant to improve security testing, the Security Payload Unit Test Repo or SPUTR. If your interested in learning more, you can look into our organization’s GitHub profile, or watch our blog or LinkedIn profile for future developments.