Re: PINGWARE

[dagostin () killerbee jsc nasa gov (John D'Agostino)]

Jason,
Tools like COPS and RAXCO Unix Security Toolkit are tools that take a 
snapshot of the system security and the output advises the operator about 
the what it thinks is wrong or if somethings changed, etc..  I was told that 
PINGWARE is a tool that is used for penetration testing (i.e.,  it 
circumvents the target systems security and reports back.).  Or is this a 
tool where you have to install an agent on the machine you need to analyse 
and it comes back and reports on things like guessed passwords, improper 
file and directory permissions, exported file systems, etc.?

At 09:58 AM 8/8/94 EDT, Jason Prondak wrote:
>       We viewed this product and personally from the price
> alone I wouldn't use it. There are several public domain packages that
> do the same. All it seems to do is check for simple things that COPS
> does and has a facility to scan all the ports on a given a host. I am
> not saying this is all that that product does but in my opinion I
> would not buy the product
>
>
>                       --jason
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