-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

All,

On 7/14/16 9:22 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> On 7/14/16 4:14 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 14/07/2016 19:36, uzair rashid wrote:
>>> Jeffrey,
>>> 
>>> Working for a corporation that has strict ssl and security 
>>> requirements.. There is no way to use the tools you suggested, 
>>> since the tomcat URLs are not exposed.
> 
>> That doesn't stop you setting up a stand-alone test instance
>> using the same settings (with a different cert if you are
>> especially paranoid) and checking those settings using the
>> excellent ssllabs.
> 
>> Keeping your Tomcat and JVM versions up to date will also help. 
>> The Tomcat team periodically reviews Tomcat's default TLS 
>> configuration and adjusts it accordingly. For details of the
>> most recent review see:
>> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Security/Ciphers
> 
> A few thoughts:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 6. Qualys has a tool called ssllabs-scan available on GitHub: 
> https://github.com/ssllabs/ssllabs-scan/
> 
> [snip]
> 
> The existence of the ssllabs-scan tool means it's also possible to 
> set-up automated periodic scanning of your own site(s). If you
> expect to get an "A" rating and one day you aren't "A" quality any
> more, you should get an alarm without having to remember to
> manually-run the web-based tool when you get around to doing it.

And of course, such a thing already exists:
https://www.unixadm.org/nagios/check_sslscan

This tool uses SSLLabs's online tool so it would be subject to the
same restrictions as the web-based version (e.g. no internal hosts).

- -chris
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

iEYEARECAAYFAleI6bYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDDlgCgprkU2h++wmgOafv+mYsTwZOr
iikAnRyy1gBncREDypbnvb7sk27fypid
=Q6bW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org

Reply via email to