RE: OTish: Penetration Testing...

["Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxx>]

GFI Languard is a good free LAN scanner as well.
http://www.gfi.com/lannetscan/index.htm

HTH,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: James Fidell [mailto:james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:26 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OTish: Penetration Testing...


Quoting Mark Harrison (Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx):
> At work, we pay quite large sums of money to specialist who try to
hack
> our networks/sites, and then report on where our vulnerabilities
are.
> 
> This is known as "penetration testing", or "pen
testing".
> 
> Anyone know of any (free) services which will try this on a home
LAN???
> 
> Mark, setting up firewall, Harrison

Look for "nessus".

It needs a unix box to run the actual tests, but will check far more
potential vulnerabilities than any other freely-available testing tool
I've seen.

If you don't have a unix box, contact me off-list and I might be able
to
run it from here.

James

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