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Re: Limited vs full blown testing
From: Peter Wood <peterw () firstbase co uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:02:09 +0100
At 09:27 23/06/2004 -0700, Toby Barrick wrote:
During my many years of pen testing one common thread when dealing with customers has been the request to not perform any destructive or DOS type testing. When I speak of DOS, I'm not talking about DDOS, I'm talking just a single machine and the tests that can be accomplished with that machine. IMHO abiding by that request is really short changing the customer and skewing the results. Additionally a lot of companies don't want their applications poked at either.What has been the experience of the members on this list? Do you just gleefully accept the check and any limitations imposed on testing or do you push for a "complete" suite of tests?
We accept a brief excluding DoS attacks, as most clients just won't support DoS testing. However we include appripriate caveats in our report and continue to suggest they do these tests.
regards Pete -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.fbtechies.co.uk
Current thread:
- Limited vs full blown testing Toby Barrick (Jun 24)
- RE: Limited vs full blown testing Jerry Shenk (Jun 24)
- Re: Limited vs full blown testing Richard Rager (Jun 24)
- Re: Limited vs full blown testing Peter Wood (Jun 24)
- Re: Limited vs full blown testing R. DuFresne (Jun 24)
- RE: Limited vs full blown testing Jerry Shenk (Jun 27)
- RE: Limited vs full blown testing R. DuFresne (Jun 27)
- Re: Limited vs full blown testing R. DuFresne (Jun 24)
- Re: Limited vs full blown testing Martin Mačok (Jun 25)
- RE: Limited vs full blown testing Markowsky, Tyler (Jun 27)
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