Re: How to Test Firewalls Guide?

From: Graham Bayley (grahamREMOVETHIS@thepostoffice.com.ANTISPAM)
Date: 10/15/02 

From: Graham Bayley <grahamREMOVETHIS@thepostoffice.com.ANTISPAM>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:12:54 GMT

My guide to test my firewalls is easy, try to hack in yourself.

Nessus is a great start, www.nessus.org and will really give your
systems a hard time, I would guess that most "hackers" use tools like
this to find standard weakness's in your wall, so you automatically
get a win on these guy's, as for the rest of the really clever people
well keep your patching up to date and pray ;-)

Cheers

Graham
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:06:51 -0700, "Speakeasy" <arptro@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I will be evaluation some software firewalls for laptops in my org and was
>wondering if anyone knows of a guide for testing firewalls. I'd like to know
>of some testing tools to scan ports, send different types of pings, or
>emulate attacks and what I should look for in the logs. A step by step "how
>to" would be great.
>
>If you want to make sure I'm on the up and up, contact me. Thanks
>
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