From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 25 6:53:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D3837B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA19145; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:53:39 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda19143; Mon Sep 25 06:53:39 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA63378; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdq63376; Mon Sep 25 06:53:25 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e8PDrPx04495; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009251353.e8PDrPx04495@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdev4486; Mon Sep 25 06:52:54 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: William Woods Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Penetration testing question.... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:54:58 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:52:54 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , William Woods writes: > Please excuse me and point me in the right direction if this is not the > best list (I suspect it isnt...) > > I currently run FreeBSD at home and on my personal system at work. The > company I work for is developing a security hardware/software solution for > windows and since I am the only person in the group with any type of *nix > experiance they have asked me to do some penetration tests. They said I > could use any OS I want for my platform (I am going to use FreeBSD because > I am most familiar with it, linux is an option but I would rather > stick with FreeBSD). They want me to get the the most commonly > used scanners (I am currently useing SAINT and NMAP to test my > persoanl LAN) and tools hackers use and test the devel systems for > security. [deleted] We do penetration testing using nmap and nessus on a periodic basis from two locations in our own network and from outside of our network. These are great firewall testing tools. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message