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cdist vs skipfish

A side-by-side look at cdist and skipfish. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

cdist

cdist

System & Hardware

cdist is an open source configuration management tool written in Python. It allows system administrators to define the configuration of servers and deploy it to multiple machines in parallel. cdist works by running small scripts called 'manifests' on remote hosts.

configuration-managementautomationpython
skipfish

skipfish

Security & Privacy

Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. Skipfish is useful for quickly analyzing web applications for potential security flaws.

web-applicationsecurity-testingreconnaissance

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