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What is a Tiger Box?

Before we discuss the inner workings of a Tiger Box, we need to identify the role of a Tiger Team.  Originally, a Tiger Team was a group whose purpose was to penetrate perimeter security, and test or analyze inner-security policies of corporations.  These people are paid professionals who hack into companies’ computer systems, phone systems and/or safes, etc.  After successful penetrations, these target businesses would revamp their policies and usually retire their security officers.  Recently, and more generally, a Tiger Team is any official inspection or special ops team called in to look at a security problem; a subset of tiger teams are professional hackers and crackers testing the security of computer installations by attempting remote attacks via networks or supposedly “secure” communication channels.  Currently, Tiger Teams are also called in to test programming code integrity.  Many software development companies outsource these teams to perform stringent dynamic code testing before putting software on the market.

Statistics proclaim that approximately 89% of the networks wired to the Internet are vulnerable to hack attacks.  With the growth of the Internet and continued advances in technology, these intrusions are becoming increasingly prevalent.   As innovative technologies continue to be developed, the scope of a Tiger Box, used by hackers and Tiger Teams, is to provide the necessary tools to recognize security weaknesses--a tool designed for sniffing, spoofing, cracking, scanning, and penetrating security vulnerabilities.  Basically, a Tiger Box is the ultimate mechanism used during security analyses, and TigerSuite is a crucial part of the Tiger Box core...

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