RE: Single Sign On

2003-03-12 Thread Walter Williams
If your unix is solaris, it can use LDAPS for an authentication protocol, allowing you to leverage AD as a single account store. Unfortunately, unless you rewrite the GINA, NT/w2k can't leverage a third party directory service. This would allow for not for single signon, which implies that you au

RE: network audit

2003-03-12 Thread YashPal Singh
Have a look at NetDetector from Niksun. Its a Network IDS and records all packets. Moreover it alerts the user when threshold value is reached. It can also recreate TCP sessions. Thanks, Yash -Original Message- From: Marendra Nutriaji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2

RE: Security Issues in Mobile Banking

2003-03-12 Thread Aigar Käis
Hi > User sends his user name and password to the service provider > as an SMS, the > ISP processes the request by running a script which initiates > an "https" > session with the Bank's Internet Banking Server, and does a > balance inquiry > using the username and password. > > If the crede

Re: Justifying the spend on a vulnerability scanner

2003-03-12 Thread Gerhard Rickert
Just a thought in this area...what do you think of Observer. Is it an overpriced tool? Would it work for what Mr. Berry wants? - Original Message - From: "JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leon Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:49 PM Subject: RE: J

NTP recommedations

2003-03-12 Thread Jennifer Fountain
I am currently looking into configuring my company's time servers. My initial thoughts were setting up two or three in the dmz and configuring them to update their time on a regular basis (haven't defined regular yet) and then install two or three interal time servers that query these servers.

RE: Firewall recommendations?

2003-03-12 Thread Bhavin
I have no comments on the technical support of NetScreen but there is one more thing to be considered. As a tech support engineer for both the products (SonicWALL as well NetScreen), NetScreen has more features compared to SonicWALL. You ask it and NetScreen has it. Thanks, Bhavin. -Origina

RE: Firewall recommendations?

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Donahue
I have a Watchguard Firebox, and it makes a great firewall, unfortuantly the VPN features never seemed to work correctly for me (yes, I'm sure it was the way that I was configuring it, but I . In the end I ended up configuring a old workstation (P3 450, 256 MB of ram, and this is overkill) with Op

RE: Critical/Security Updates as well as other Patch Management

2003-03-12 Thread Jed Needle
On Microsoft platforms there is a patch management util called SUS "software update service?? (I think) Once configured, the server will automatically download relevant patches, you then point the clients to the sus server and push updates to clients that way. Jed -Original Message- Fro

GroupWise - Guinevere - Klez.H traffic Increase

2003-03-12 Thread Eric Zatko
Good afternoon my friends. I am wondering if any of you can shed some light on this bit of information that I have. Here is the background: We are running GroupWise e-mail... with Guinevere antivirus scanner for inbound and outbound Internet e-mail... which integrates with our Norton AV to dete

DataBase encryption, decryption question?

2003-03-12 Thread Daniel Williams
Hi, Why would you allow the database to encryption and decryption information? Regards /Daniel

RE: Any good method to check network overload?

2003-03-12 Thread JAVIER OTERO
First you must define the problem: What is network overload? It can be a lot of diferent situations, the most common: bad response time, Ok it is bad response time. Second: what is the origin of bad response time. No easy answer, a lot of diferent sources and incredible combinations of this. Do

RE: Any good method to check network overload?

2003-03-12 Thread crawford charles
collisions are not particularly useful in a "fully-switched" (sub-) network. For that you really would need to sample the LAN port octet counters on the switch/router and compare them against maximum expected (or SLA) bandwidth. And even that would usually be far above what your servers could t

RE: WLAN AUDITING [SANS Institute webcast slides...]

2003-03-12 Thread Sigmon Cheri Y GS-09 DLIELC/LETA
Hello, Akash et al: I saved the "slides" of a recent webcast on this specific topic from the SANS Institute. Perhaps you're interested in reviewing those for an overview or educational purposes? It is a large file (419 KB), so with respect for others who may or may not have access to a broadban

RE: Justifying the spend on a vulnerability scanner

2003-03-12 Thread David Gillett
> From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As the subject says, this is what I have got to do. > > I could dream up loads of examples of; > if we don't detect a code read virus and we get it, then it > will knock out our webservers and others until we fix it. > if we have open null shares on the network, and

Re: Qmail passing sendmail vulnerability downstream

2003-03-12 Thread Joerg Over
Am 19:12 10.03.03 - teilte Tim Thornton mir folgendes mit: -> I understand that Qmail is not vulnerable to the ->recent Sendmail issue, but I want to know if Qmail will ->still forward the sendmail vulnerability "modified ->oversized header" downstream to other MTA's, thus ->leaving downstrea

RE: Firewall recommendations?

2003-03-12 Thread Jacob
http://www.netscreen.com/products/firewall_wpaper.html Right on their website ;-) At 10:47 AM 3/10/2003 -0800, you wrote: While I see people recommend NetScreen, I can not based on my experience with their techs, which includes level 2 techs. While researching options for a firewall for a client,

Re: Qmail passing sendmail vulnerability downstream

2003-03-12 Thread Bennett Todd
2003-03-10T14:12:04 Tim Thornton: > I understand that Qmail is not vulnerable to the > recent Sendmail issue, but I want to know if Qmail will > still forward the sendmail vulnerability "modified > oversized header" downstream to other MTA's, thus > leaving downstream sendmail servers open to the

Re: Single Sign On

2003-03-12 Thread John O'Connor
It depends on how integrated an environment you need. I have used Samba, Windows services for UNIX, and a NetApps system successfully for file sharing in a mixed Windows, UNIX, and Linux enviroment. There were a few MAC's to using Dave. Windows Services for UNIX is suppose to synchronize Windows

RE: Single Sign On

2003-03-12 Thread Depp, Dennis M.
SAIC sells a product called UCAMS http://www.saic.com/products/software/ucams/ucams-tech.html It is not a single sign on application, but it is a password distribution application. I.e. You have to sign on to each system but your userid and password are the same. UCAMS has various clients inclu

network stress tool

2003-03-12 Thread Gene Yoo
does anyone have a recommendation for open source network stress tool, specifically on a cisco switch? tia -- <> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iQCUAwUBPhxERRxoVYCzmrKXAQJK5gP3Y7CTsFyKpEz2p5W4GWI9+qSm+kWfdJ0R xNlma0Ma

RE: sniffing packets on a switch

2003-03-12 Thread Brad Davenport
On Cisco's switches you can use the SPAN feature to send a mirror of data received on a given port to another port. IE, your firewall port is spanned to another switchport to allow your IDS to sample all incoming data destined for the trusted net. --BD -Original Message- From: David Gill

Re: sniffing packets on a switch

2003-03-12 Thread Valerio Bellizzomi
The "some" problems you are talking about are that since a switch has no shared medium, with tcpdump you will see only your own traffic and broadcast traffic, not the traffic of other hosts (except the broadcast). On 07/03/2003, at 15.54, Scott Borre wrote: >I am interested in what people recomm

Re: ip id numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Carlos Eduardo Pinheiro
Hi doug, ID flag indicates which datagram fragments belong together so datagrams do not get mismatched and sequence numbers are used to reassemble data in the order in which it was sent. Carlos Eduardo Pinheiro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #: 134439332 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&sea

Re: Justifying the spend on a vulnerability scanner

2003-03-12 Thread Pierre A. Cadieux
I some respects it depends on the type of business/computer network you are protecting. You can get low/no cost scanners (NMAP, etc.) that will tell you ports are open, and you can then do the leg work to verify that the services should be running, and are patched etc. In large commercial envi