Installing the software does not seem a problem; there seem to be enough tutorials and write-ups out there. But what sort of hardware hookup is required or recommended?
I'm running a Dachstein firewall between the internet and my mixed OS local lan - linux & several WinXX machines and I am guessing/assuming I'd have to be outside my firewall, but unless I can convince someone to allow me to install nessus on their system, I don't see how I can test my own setup, short of a mockup hardware system.
This isn't that high priority for me as I trust my current Dachstein system, but it would be interesting to be able to get more familiar with some of the security issues.
I did a bit of googling, but I'm not quite sure what search terms to use, so I did not find much that even came close.
Arnold
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:32, Terry Erickson wrote:
Now I want to learn about how to test how secure my setup is. Any
suggestions? I know next to nothing technically about network security;
I just barely made it through installing Bering uClibc here but I'm
relatively confident I did it right, thanks to the good documentation.
Still there's no reason why I shouldn't make sure.
Terry, Install Nessus, and test away. There are on-line services too, but they usually want money to test you external connection thoroughly.
Nessus http://www.nessus.org/
Security Scanning http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Internet/Services/Security_Scanning/
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