Labs
We build innovative, sustainable solutions that solve real-world problems for our customers and ourselves.
What is Labs?
Labs is a small team at Praetorian doing big things. Our mission is to reliably build innovative and sustainable solutions that meaningfully solve real-world problems for ourselves and our customers. We're a small team making major impacts on the company and the industry. Our projects vary greatly, from developing new product and service capabilities to meet emerging customer needs to providing subject matter expertise and advise and assist operations to our product, engineering, and services teams.
Nathan Sportsman CEO, Praetorian
Labs is at the core of Praetorian's next wave of innovation, and our relentless pursuit to solve the cybersecurity problem.
Recent Projects
From product support to building out radical new technologies, we approach projects that align with our company strategy, with the speed and ambition of a startup.
Do you have a challenging problem you think might be right for Praetorian Labs? Contact Us
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GoKart
An open source, next generation SAST tool for GoLang
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Chariot by Praetorian
Currently in alpha: Chariot by Praetorian is a truly next generation application security orchestration and automation platform.
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pentestly
Python and Powershell internal penetration testing framework
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trudy
A transparent proxy that can modify and drop traffic for arbitrary TCP connections
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pyshell
PyShell makes interacting with web-based command injection less painful, emulating the feel of an interactive shell as much as possible
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trident
An automated password spraying tool
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What’s New at Praetorian Labs
What catches our attention? Game changing ideas and advancements with the potential for a 10X impact on the world’s most challenging problems.
What We’re Reading
January 1, 2021Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection
Not for the faint at heart, but this book offers thorough, scholarly coverage of an area that is growing in importance in cybersecurityChristian Collberg's take on Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection
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New campaign targeting security researchers
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Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2020 - nominations open
PortSwigger
Our Writings
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“Always a New Challenge to Work On”: 2022 Summer Internship Program
At Praetorian, we’ve never asked interns to file or fetch coffee. How boring would that be, and what a waste of curiosity and talent! Instead, we focus on providing actual work experience and teaching hard skills our interns can’t learn in a classroom. In fact, we go above and beyond to give our interns practical […]
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Introducing FingerprintX: The fastest port fingerprint scanner
Introduction Port fingerprinting can detect specific services running on a network, which makes it useful during penetration tests. It expands visibility into potential attack surfaces and vulnerabilities within the network environment. Over the summer, our interns worked towards developing a new tool for port fingerprinting services: Fingerprintx Fingerprintx is a port fingerprinting utility tool useful […]
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Developing a Hidden Virtual File System Capability That Emulates the Uroburos Rootkit
A few years ago, I read the “Uroburos: The Snake Rootkit” [1] paper written by Artem Baranov and Deresz and was captivated by the hidden kernel-mode Virtual File System (VFS) functionality implemented within Uroburos. Later, I decided to learn Windows device driver programming and thought replicating this functionality within my own rootkit would be an […]
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