Re: Ethical Hacking Training

From: Jimi Thompson (jimit_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 01/19/04

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    Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:28:02 -0600
To: "Teicher, Mark (Mark)" <teicher@avaya.com>

    <SNIP>

    >Why not spend the time in researching how to correct security exploits
    >in enforcing secure coding standards and forcing vendors to clean up
    >their act and making their products work more efficiently and securely.
    >
    >
    </SNIP>

    Precisely how do you think that the aforementioned "security exploits"
    are discovered?

    My experience has been that unless you know how to hack and how to look
    at your network from the outside like one of the bad guys, that you
    aren't going to have much of an idea of what is vulnerable, what is
    poorly coded, and what does not work efficiently and securely.

    2 cents,

    Jimi

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