Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread dennis
) and slow and low attacks. Best of Luck, Dennis -- From: "Baklarz, Ron" Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:41 PM To: "Green, Timothy" Cc: Subject: RE: Penetration Test Assistance Not discounting the need for network

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Brett Watson
On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:34 AM, 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. Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on the scope of the engagement. I've had customers ask for very specific pen test o

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 12-06-05 03:48 PM, Brett Watson wrote: On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: As far as horror stories... yeah. My most memorable experience was a guy (with a CISSP designation, working for a company who came highly recommended) who: - Spent a day trying to get his Ba

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Bacon Zombie
You should have a look at the Pentest Standards page, it was created by some very skilled Pen Testers how are trying to create a minimum standard for all tests and reporting. http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/Main_Page Also you should just have to give them your external net-block allocat

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Brett Watson
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: > > As far as horror stories... yeah. My most memorable experience was a guy > (with a CISSP designation, working for a company who came highly recommended) > who: >- Spent a day trying to get his Backtrack CD to "work properly". Whe

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Leo Bicknell
The bit of information that's missing here is what are you trying to pentest, and by extension how much do you want to pay your pentest firm? For some folks a pentest means starting with zero information and trying to get IP packets passed a firewall or IDS's undetected. Basically pentesting laye

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Harry Hoffman
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 t

RE: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
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 t

RE: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Seriously. --p -Original Message- From: Aled Morris [mailto:al...@qix.co.uk] I'd treat this as the first of their pen tests - a social engineering attack to obtain secret information about the network, and refuse. Aled

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Barry Greene
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 On Jun 5, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Green, Timothy wrote: > Howdy all, > > I'm a Security Manager of a l

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Jun 5, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: > In general, my experience with most "pen testers" is a severe disappointment, > and isn't anything that couldn't be done in-house by taking the person in > your department who has the most ingrained hacker/geek personality, giving > them

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Aled Morris
On 5 June 2012 15:52, Green, Timothy wrote: > Howdy all, > > I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest > next month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the > entire network. > > I'd treat this as the first of their pen tests - a social engineer

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread William Herrin
On 6/5/12, Green, Timothy wrote: > I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest next > month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the entire > network. We don't have a "complete" network diagram that shows everything > and everywhere we are. At mo

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 12-06-05 11:32 AM, Andrew Latham wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Green, Timothy wrote: Howdy all, I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest next month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the entire network. We don't have a "

RE: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Baklarz, Ron
Passenger Railroad Corporation (AMTRAK) 10 G Street, NE Office 6E606 Washington, DC 20002 bakl...@amtrak.com -Original Message- From: Green, Timothy [mailto:timothy.gr...@mantech.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 10:53 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Penetration Test Assistance Howdy a

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Quinn Kuzmich
It's not much of a penetration test, imho, if the "attackers" have detailed knowledge of your network and systems before the attack. You should determine what kind of a scenario you are trying to simulate, and how the results will be used to improve security. Is this a "black box" situation, wher

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 6/5/12 07:52 , Green, Timothy wrote: > Howdy all, > > I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a > Pentest next month and the testers are demanding a complete network > diagram of the entire network. We don't have a "complete" network > diagram that shows everything and eve

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread jim deleskie
A complete diagram makes their life easier, may make for a more complete test, but they are working for you, so if you don't have it, you don't have. I'm not a big fan of having a single diagram with everything laid out anyway, but I'm from the old shcool. -jim On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM,

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Green, Timothy wrote: I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest next month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the entire network. We don't have a "complete" network diagram that shows everything and everywhere we are.

Re: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Andrew Latham
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Green, Timothy wrote: > Howdy all, > > I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest next > month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the entire > network.  We don't have a "complete" network diagram that shows eve

Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Green, Timothy
Howdy all, I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest next month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the entire network. We don't have a "complete" network diagram that shows everything and everywhere we are. At most we have a bunch of netwo