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Sandstorm's PhoneSweep 5.4

It doesn't matter how strongly you've locked the  front door, if you've left the  back door wide open

Has someone inside your organization attached a modem to your network?

• Has someone inside your organization attached a modem to your network?
• Are your authorized modems susceptible to a break-in with a wardialer?
• Are your modems revealing banners with their identity?
• Do your modems still have default manufacturer passwords?
• Is there unknown open access to a legacy system?
• Are you at risk by not conducting regular audits across your organization?

If you answered "Yes" or "I don't know" to any of these questions, then we can help. You've come to the right place to learn more about establishing a security perimeter using PhoneSweep.

Sandstorm's PhoneSweep telephone scanner was the world's first commercial wardialer. It's the most popular commercial telephone scanner in the world today, with over 80% of the worldwide market. Sandstorm holds two patents (6,490,349 and 6,744,864) on technology used in PhoneSweep.

BENEFITS of Using PhoneSweep

Establish a Comprehensive Security Perimeter for Your Organization

• PhoneSweep Dials Every Number In Your Organization
• PhoneSweep is a robust multi-line scanner which scales to meet your specific requirements
• Once the Process is Completed, PhoneSweep Will
  • Identify computers running remote-access software to bypass the corporate firewall
  • Identify over 460 systems and try to break in
  • Identify approved or unapproved modems that accept incoming calls
  • Identify critical backup modems that have failed
• PhoneSweep operates in the mode that you select
  • Connect - Quickly scanning all numbers using patent-pending Single Call Detect
  • Identify - Refine your scan and identify numbers that yielded a modem connection
  • Penetrate - This is the most aggressive setting, using brute-force passwords against identified modems
• PhoneSweep is unique with its patent-pending Single Call Detect technology
• PhoneSweep contains versatile username and password checking functionality
• PhoneSweep is solidly engineered providing for stops, starts, and system recovery mid-scan
• PhoneSweep produces several great looking customizable reports
• Sandstorm actively supports PhoneSweep with regular releases and new features

New Features in PhoneSweep 5.4 

• Reports now has email via SMTP (to a specified address) option
• Identification and display of Calling Station ID (CSID) of remote faxes for "Identify" and "Penetrate" levels
• Both Supports and Identifies MS-CHAP v2 protocol
• New section in Reports now lists all numbers categorized as "No Facsimile"
• Added format for importing a range of numbers from a file.
• Right clicking on a phone number allows copying the phone number/time period to clipboard option
• Any phone number type exported will also have the notes for the phone number written to the output file
• Alerts email messages now have the note fields for each phone number attached

• Users can customize Mail Text in Alert messages through an edit box added to the Alerts Tab.
• A "No Facsimile Detected" alert has been added to the Alerts Tab.

• Help menu now includes "Log Settings for Tech Support," for logging specific PhoneSweep settings to Psettings.log
• Status tab now includes the number of phone numbers assigned to dial
• Differential and Regular reports now include the Timeout Redial Calculation
• MySQL connection now remains open for a very long time while PhoneSweep is idle

• Fix to rescan issue; the sequence "Open profile from current list, Rescan" now results in the correct default profile being copied to the new profile
• When scanning for fax and modem with single call detect disabled, PhoneSweep now detects faxes as well as modems

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