Re: Vulnerability Scanning - Prioritising Remediation

[John Morrison <john.morrison101 () gmail com>]

If you have an IPS as part of your security system should you not scan
with it switched on? It is one of your controls. If you run a VA scan
without the IPS won't you get incorrect results?

What do other subscribers to this list do?

Regards




John

On 20 September 2011 06:37, J Teddy <jteddylists () gmail com> wrote:
> I'm currently documenting how to prioritise remediation efforts from
> my last vulnerability scan.  As my assets have all had information
> risk assessments conducted, I can easily calculate my CVSS score using
> the CVSS2 calculator.
>
> I then started thinking about compensating controls in my network
> where I could possibly lower the priority of the remediation.  For
> example the SSH vulnerability priority may be lowered as there is a
> signature for prevention on my IPS.
>
> The question I can not answer is if my IPS has prevention for such a
> signature, and I’m running a vulnerability scan through that IPS, will
> my IPS block those packets, with the end result being my VA scan does
> not detect the vulnerability?
>
> Thanks.
>
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install and use a thawte Digital Certificate on your Apache web server. Throughout, best practices for set-up are 
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