K9SECURE

K9 SSL/TLS vulnerability scanners: why are they needed?

To ensure your certificate parameters are correct, SSL and TLS verification are required. There are multiple ways to check the SSL and TLS certificate online. A K9 test, however, provides a great deal of useful information. K9 tells you which SSL/TLS certificate is used on a website, about any errors, about its expiration date, and who the issuer is and DNS resolver will be provided, as well as the SSL cipher that is supported by the server and the certificate details. You can also schedule an automatic renewal of your SSL/TLS certificate using this tool. If you are troubleshooting or validating ciphers, you get detailed cipher suite details. By identifying any issues beforehand, you can avoid having users complain about them later. It is possible for your website to be vulnerable if SSL/TLS is misconfigured.

Here's how it works!

SSL/TLS Vulnerability Scanner analyzes the SSL/TLS configuration of a target service for security vulnerabilities. An analysis of vulnerabilities and weaknesses is followed by detailed recommendations for repairing them. As part of the scanning process, the scanner connects to the target SSL server and tries various protocols and ciphers to locate any vulnerabilities. A human-readable report is generated after our scanner interprets all issues found.

We are dealing with something different here. Various checks of the client are performed, including:

• Support for session clocks
• Supported Protocol Version
• Condensation
• Cipher Supported