Re: Patch management tool - pen-test

[Alvin Oga <alvin.sec () Mail Linux-Consulting com>]

hi ya miles

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Miles Stevenson wrote:

> Milind,
>
>  I don't see what your question has to do with pen-testing. Please try and 
> keep your questions relevant to the discussion topic of the list. This post 
> would be more appropriate for the security-basics list.

guess thats true too ..

a pen-test assumes there may be an exploit it can detect ..
a patched box will hopefully have patched all known exploits

or one can patch the lastest/greatest pen-test tools too :-)

c ya
alvin


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