Re: Allowing scanning from home

From: tony tony (tonytorri_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:51:25 -0700 (PDT)
    To: ericaldrc51@netscape.net, security-basics@securityfocus.com
    
    

    Why may I ask you do not agree with this? I work in the Security Group and do
    it all of the time. Our network is scanned all the time by hackers. So what is
    the big deal..if everything is hardened you have nothing to worry about.

    .net wrote:

    >
    > What's the group's consensus on allowing security staff to scan the company's
    > external interfaces from their home, to get a true external assessment. I
    > personally don't agree with this for audit and other reasons. Just looking
    > for some other professional viewpoints. Thx.
    >
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    Tony T. CISSP, CISA, CDP, CIA
    Senior IS Security & Risk Manager
    360.906.7893 (Work)
    Northern Telecom LLP

                    
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