Re: Disabling IPS for PENTEST

[Jose Fuertes <jfuertes () alaver com do>]

I agree with haZard0us.

I would ask for external and internal pentest.....remember a hacker won't ask you to disable you're protections.

And you are looking to measure your security.

Enjoy

Jose

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----- Original Message -----
From: haZard0us [mailto:hazard0us.pt () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 10:25 AM
To: Kid Tangerine <kidtangerine () gmail com>
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Subject: Re: Disabling IPS for PENTEST

I don't have any experience, but I think that disabling the IDS/allowing their IP is wrong.

The main purpose of a pen test is to assess the vulnerabilities on your system. An attacker has to deal with the IDS. 
If you disable for them, just makes their job easier.

If I were the one to decide, I would say no.

But, once again, I got no experience.

A 06/08/2012, às 14:57, Kid Tangerine escreveu:

> All,
>
> Corporate has requested we get a PENTEST for our Internet facing
> website from a third party, but the third party asked us to allow
> their ip address to be excluded from our IPS.
>
> Is that a common practice to basically turn off our protection and
> allow them in?
>
> Obviously we aren't developers, so If the code has sql injections,
> cross site scripting, etc vulnerabilities we cannot fix it within the
> corporate guidelines, and our only leverage from the IT infrastructure
> side is to include the needed filters in the IPS to prevent their
> crappy code from being exploited. It we turn off the IPS I am sure all
> kinds of things will show up.
>
> Any experience appreciated.
>
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