Browser Based Security Framework - Mantra Janus
OWASP Mantra is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for students, penetration testers, web application developers,security professionals etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows the true spirit of free and open source software.
Browser Based Security Framework: Mantra Janus
OWASP Mantra is a free and open source security toolkit with a collection of add-ons and scripts based on Firefox and Chromium. It is intended for web application penetration testers, web application developers, security professionals, etc. Earlier versions of Mantra used Firefox as base named “Mantra Security Toolkit’. From September 2011 onwards Mantra started offering a new distribution called ‘MoC’, based on Google Chrome. As of May 2012, both the products are available and are active.
Features
Mantra comes packed with many tools and other extensions that are useful for web application penetration testing. Some additional changes are applied to the normal Firefox to avoid extra traffic and noises.
Other notable features include:
ºFireCAT/ KromCAT menu structure makes the tools menu more organised and easy to access.
ºSidebar of Mantra provides quick access to tools and other features
ºThe awesome bar acts as URL bar and search bar at the same time. Various details about the currently visited webpage are also shown in the awesome bar.
ºAdd to search bar feature helps users to customise default search feature of awesome bar.
ºURL increment/ decrement buttons helps in applying quick changes to the URL.
ºHackery aka The Open Pentest Bokkmarks Collection gives links to various resources and portal that are related to penetration testing.
ºGalley bookmarks provides links to various on-line penetration testing related services.
ºProxy, Cookie and Cache management tools
ºFTP, SSH, REST and SQLite clients
Tools
The OWASP Mantra Security Toolkit has tools under the following categories:
ºInformation gathering
ºEditors
ºNetwork utilities
ºMiscellaneous
ºApplication auditing
ºProxy
Mantra is lite, flexible, portable and user friendly with a nice graphical user interface. You can carry it in memory cards, flash drives, CD/DVDs, etc. It can be run natively on Linux, Windows and Mac platforms. It can also be installed on to your system within minutes. Mantra is absolutely free of cost and takes no time for you to set up.
