The first release of ifmapcli,  our IF-MAP command line tools for Java, is now available for download. ifmapcli enables you to simulate the behaviour of  MAP clients by using simple command line tools. You can find further information and a first how to in our wiki.

A new version of our IF-MAP 2.0 server irond is now available for download. The new release includes the following changes:

• performance tweaks for better scaling when large amounts of metadata objects (millions) are published
• a configuration option to enable/disbale some sanity checks - disabling further improves performance
• updated keystore that now includes the default certificate for ironvas

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Today we're proud to announce the release of a new IF-MAP client: ironvas. ironvas is an IF-MAP 2.0 client that can publish vulnerability reports generated by OpenVAS to an IF-MAP server. It is written in Java and Scala. Future versions will provide subscribe functionality (trigger OpenVAS via IF-MAP) and the possibility to filter vulnerabilites, depending on their risk factor. Further information about installation and usage can be found in our Redmine and the Readme-file within the distribution packages.

You can find the current version in the download section.

We're proud to announce the start of a new research project within our Trust@FHH group: VisITMeta

VisITMeta stands for "Visualizing the security of modern IT infrastructures based on metadata" - or "Visualisierung der Sicherheit moderner IT-Infrastrukturen auf der Basis von Metadaten" as its original german title. It will be based on our experience with irongui, our tool to visualizie IF-MAP metadata of any IF-MAP server, and will enhance its functionality with more sophisticated features for handling and rendering large metadata graphs, including history functionality.

The project is funded by the german Federal Ministry of Education and Research and has started on April 1st, 2012.

Until an own website is launched, information can be found within this website's project section or in our public Redmine. 

The new version 0.3.0 of our IF-MAP server irond is now available. This versions includes pretty nice enhancements, such as:

• support for raw logging of requests/responses
• configurable validation of XML schema
• performance boost when dealing with large graphs and complex subscriptions

You can find the binary and the source archives in our download section.

The new version 0.3.1 of irongui is now available for download. It provides numerous bugfixes and some new nice features you might want to have a look at.

The new version 0.1.3 of ifmapj and ifmapj-examples are now available. The most relevant changes are:

• Fixed typo 'disoverer-id' in standard metadata factory
• Updated testing keystore
• Fix Device identifier parsing
• Introduce ifmapj.communication.verifypeercert and  ifmapj.communication.verifypeerhost system properties

ifmapj is an IF-MAP client library that eases development of IF-MAP clients. You can find the latest release in our download section.