From: Curt Purdy (purdy@tecman.com)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2006 - 16:11:02 EDT
Intel96 wrote:
> You also need to determine how much manual testing may have to be
> performed on the systems. Such as cracking logins, cracking cookies,
> etc, or searching the systems for embedded passwords in script or
> configurations files and looking at the database schemes.
<snip>
Unfortunately, most pentest companies don't do manual testing. Like the
bank that I was ISO at hired NetBankAudit to "pentest" them. They likely
had a young tech running scripts on a dozen clients that night and found one
minor problem on our acquistion. The next Sunday night between 10pm and
6am, I manually tested and found six serious problems.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA
Information Security Officer
Information Systems Security
infosysec.net
443.846.4231
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What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke
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