Core Security Technologies today announced a major update to CORE IMPACT, their flagship penetration testing product. The major benefit of this solution is that it enables administrators a time saving option for doing and easy and cost effective point and click penetration testing against their networks.

The new addition presented in the version 4.0 of CORE IMPACT is Rapid Penetration Test, an industry first step-by-step automation of the penetration testing process. As you can see from the screenshots, CORE IMPACT offers the users possibility of going through all the penetration testing steps, including information gathering, attack and penetration, local information gathering, privilege escalation, clean up and reporting.

Besides this fundamental upgrade, CORE IMPACT 4.0 offers updated user interface which includes a "basic view" option for novice users, more powerful exploit search possibilities, automatic product updates and Exploit Payload Library, which can be used by advanced users for creating custom attacks. CORE IMPACT 4.0 is available immediately and the pricing begins at $2495.

Here are the screenshots of CORE IMPACT 4.0 taken exclusively for Help Net Security. Click on the screenshots to get the large version.