Press Release

SensePost partners with Paterva to offer improved security intelligence

We’ve been big fans of Maltego and the team at Paterva for a very long time now, and we frequently use this powerful tool for all kinds of fun and interesting stuff, like Using Maltego to explore threat & vulnerability data; Snoopy: A distributed tracking and profiling framework, ‘Scraping’ time servers; Using Maltego to Data Mine Twitter; and even an analyse on the Use of Social Media by ISIS. We go way back with Andrew and Roelof, who was in fact a founder of SensePost, so today we’re super excited to be able to announce a new, strengthened partnership with them under which we have been accredited as an Approved Maltego Solutions Provider. Basically this means the that with Paterva’s help we plan to use the powerful Maltego toolset to become better at our job – that is to provide information and information systems to our customer with which they can make sound security decisions. Here’s the official news:

Pfortner calls on SensePost expertise to validate their security posture

Pretoria South Africa — SensePost, a leader in penetration testing and information security services, announced today that Pfortner had called on their expertise to validate their encryption services in South Africa. With the financial services sector in South Africa being deeply competitive, Pfortner needed to provide a high-level of assurance for their clients as to the security of their encryption service. As a standard requirement Pfortner clients have to be totally confident in the security of their service before any further engagement.

Mobile Security – Observations from the developing world

By the year 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will have more people with mobile network access than with access to electricity at home. This remarkable fact from a 2011 MobileMonday report came to mind again as I read an article just yesterday about the introduction of Mobile Money in the UK: By the start of next year, every bank customer in the country may have the ability to transfer cash between bank accounts, using an app on their mobile phone.

Press Release – Jane Frankland joins SensePost

The SensePost marketing division, a highly skilled team of ruthless spin-doctors, is proud to announce that they have written … a press release. Indeed, this team of fawners, flunkeys, lackeys and puffers has been slaving since early 2009 to come up with the pristine example of literary art you will read below. If you’re intimidated by what I’ve just said, harbour a fanatical dislike for marketing folks or simply don’t read so good, then here’s the short version: