The new Seccubus logo

Last month our coworker Frank Breedijk rechristened his vulnerability management tool Seccubus. Today he has launched his new website Seccubus.com

With the new website author Frank also unveiled the new logo for Seccubus drawn bij Schuberg Philis collegue Robert Heuvel.

Slide deck “Seccubus Confidence 2009.02 v0.1″

On the 19th of November Frank Breedijk announced that Jason Mansfield, who runs the website http:/clinicallyawasome.com, has won the contest by sending in the name Seccubus. A bottle of Vueve Clinquot champaing will be sent to him shortly.

The author has provided the following explanation of the name Seccubus:

Seccubus is a mythical creature that helps security professionals analyze and report the results of, repeated, vulnerability scans. Like its distant cousins the Succubus and Incubus the Seccubus is also a creature of the night. At night, or any other scheduled time, the Seccubus draws its energy from repeatedly performing vulnerability scans  of infrastructures until the vulnerabilities become exhausted or die.
The Inseccubus is the male counterpart of the Seccubus. While the Inseccubus draws his life energy from the assessor by repeatedly requiring him to (re-)analyse the same findings, the Seccubus get her energy from pleasing the assessor by reducing the number of findings by means of delta reporting.

The name Seccubus was chosen from a list of over 50 ideas sent after the contest was announced via the AutoNessus.com website, Hacker Public Radio, Paul dot com and various other social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

“I wanted a name that was completely different from AutoNessus” said Frank Breedijk, explaining why suggestions like AutoVAS and AutoVAMP where turned down. Other suggestions where turned down because their name was already taken on media like twitter (e.g. VAsak, Vulnerability Assessment Swiss Army Knife) or “simply because I didn’t like them” (e.g. Mick Douglass is awesome).

Now that the new name has been announced the “rebranding” will be complete before the end of the year. The website www.seccubus.com is already live but still points to the AutoNessus.com site. Also Frank’s twitter account, @autonessus, will be renamed to @seccubus soon.

The response to the renaming contest was overwhelming and we would like to thank everybody who participated.

To my surprise the interview turned out a lot better then I remembered it.

This afternoon/evening, Security Justice will hold their 1st Annual International Podcast BBQ to celebrate US labor day.

The BBQ will feature our Schuberg Philis colleague Frank Breedijk as blogger for cupfighter.net and author of AutoNessus

At 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT) they will kick off by firing up the grill and opening the (probably not first) beers. After this there will be a series of interviews:

16:00 EST (21:00 GMT)  – Our own Frank Breedijk (@autonessus)
17:00 EST (22:00 GMT) – Chris John Riley (@ChrisJohnRiley) and Robin Wood (@digininja)
18:00 EST (23:00 GMT) – James Arlen (@myrcurial)
19:00 EST (00:00 GMT) – Nick Owen (@wikidsystems)
20:00 EST (01:00 GMT) – Clean-up and the usual banter…

The podcast will be streamed live via hak5radio.com and IRC: irc.freenode.net #securityjustice will be used for audience participation.