Question: Is a there a product, application or suiet of software that will scan web sites page by page and produce a hash sum that will allow me to day by day proof sites/pages as un-changed?
The objective being that I am responcible for some of the security for my orginization and I would like to script a daily check of web pages to insure that no changes have been slipped in with out me knowing about it. If I had a scriptable spider that would do the hash sums that I could store then hash changes without page changes would be the red flag.
George
If your website is completely static this approach could work and you would likely want to use something like tripwire on the webserver to identify if any content had been changed.
However, these days most websites are dynamic in nature and would probably create different hashes for the same page even though no malicious person changed them. Even something as minor as having the date displayed on the page would change the hash of that page each day. This is why this is typically not the approach people take - they usually would put something like tripwire on their web server to identify when the static content or scripts on their server are changed.
hope this helps