Re: False-negatives in several Vulnerability Assessment tools

From: Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka <mfrd(at)attitudex.com>
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 02:10:57 EDT

Very Informative article I must say,
However,

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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.
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Users should not be the one to validate the output, The result of (VA) tools should be thoroughly identified and manually checked by the  

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security
engineers, pen-testers and network administrators
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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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Received on Wed Apr 16 11:48:47 2003