Re: opinions on Vigliante's SecureScanNX for attack/pen work?

From: Zen (zen@kill-9.it)
Date: 11/30/01


Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:10:58 +0100
From: Zen <zen@kill-9.it>
To: John Lampe <j_lampe@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: opinions on Vigliante's SecureScanNX for attack/pen work?
Message-ID: <20011130111058.L2737@inferno.dsnet.it>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:25:16PM -0000, John Lampe wrote:
> > - it's not the fastest on earth (manually supervised,
> > but it will change in the future)
>
> Really? IMO, securescanx scanned a little too fast. I ran a scan against a
> /24 range of addresses off of a T-1 connection with both Nessus and
> vigilante whilst running a packet sniffer off of the spanned default gw
> port....The vigilante was so aggressive that it missed many of the ports

        I wasn't referring to the packet-rate speed, but to the <start
        the test>-<get the report> cycle.

        As automated test results are manually reviewed, it could take
        24/48 hours to be able to get the report after the scan has
        finished.

bye,

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