There are lots of reasons why a pentester would want a network diagram.
The foremost being a point to which they can say, these are the networks that I was given as a point of reference to pentest.
This is often a CYA policy for when people start complaining about the scanning that is going to occur and potentially break their systems.
Cheers, Harry On 06/05/2012 02:34 PM, Darden, Patrick S. wrote:
I'm with Barry--a network diagram showing everything from the pov of the pen team should be part of the end report. --p -----Original Message----- From: Barry Greene [mailto:bgre...@senki.org] Hi Tim, A _good_ pen test team would not need a network diagram. Their first round of penetration test would have them build their own network diagram from their analysis of your network. Barry
