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Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities
From: Coderian <coderian () CHECKSUM ORG>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:19:06 +0200
Hallo terug, Well this is a legal aspect which nowadays can be put in court (if it will come that far) in different ways. So not to bother anyone with "Cyber" Law I redirect you to the book of Ryan Russell "Hack proofing you Network internet tradecraft" in the first chapter he explains the politics. But it as i said before it depends on the country you live in and it's law. Greets, Coderian Research & Development checksum.org
Hallo, I have some questions regarding the legal aspects of penetration testing (I'm hoping this hasn't be answered on the list before, I haven't had time to keep up for the past couple of weeks). 1.) Before a pen/sec test takes place, what type of legal documentation should be obtained (disclaimers, limitation of liability, etc..)? 2.) What are major topics that should be discussed and included in a contract between the pen/sec company and their client? Should a contract even be written up in the first place? 3.) When conducting a pen/sec test what legal issues should be kept in mind (e.g.. get out of jail free type of stuff). 5.) After a pen/sec test, if the client's network is cracked, can the pen/sec company be held responsible? 6.) If the pen/sec company offers services such as actual securing of systems, can they be held responsible if the systems they secured are cracked? I'd appreciate as much feed back as possible. Once again I apologize if this has already been discussed. Thanks, Ben Lull *** * Ben Lull * ValleyLocal Internet, Inc. * Systems Administrator ***
Current thread:
- [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Ben Lull (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Dan Ryan (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Tim Kramer (Sep 13)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Coderian (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Wandering One (Sep 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Bhanu Prasad (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Legalities and Liabilities Dan Ryan (Sep 12)