Re: False-negatives in several Vulnerability Assessment tools

From: Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka (mfrdat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 23:10:57 PDT

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    Very Informative article I must say, 
    However, 
    
    <quote>
    Numerous Vulnerability Assessment (VA) tools are available for security 
    engineers, pen-testers and network administrators. Their results are 
    mostly trusted by users since they don't have time nor competences to 
    validate that output. 
    </quote>
    
    Users should not be the one to validate the output, The result of (VA) 
    tools should be thoroughly identified and manually checked by the
     
    <quote> 
    security 
    engineers, pen-testers and network administrators 
    </quote>
    
    Another thing, now are we looking towards re-designing of several 
    plugins for other languages and accordingly newer plugins to have 
    different languages versions and it would effect several signatures in 
    various (IDS) too.
    
    Did you contacted most if not all (VA) and (IDS) vendors regarding this,
     and what's their response?
    
    
    Regards
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    Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
    
    
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