Re: Vulnerability assessment for small business

[ctg <plumme () gmail com>]

Hello Billy,

You can use any vulnerability scanner to find out any possible flaws
in your client machines. However, as your client don't have any
services, you should find out more about is their physical security up
to date. This is because your client cannot lose any of their
machines, due to fire, flood or theft etc.
It's also possible to try sniff their network and try to compromise
any external services, just to show them that they should trust always
to external service providers.

ctg

On 27/09/05, Billy Dodson <billy () pmicromart com> wrote:
> When doing a vuln assessment for a small business (25 PC's, no server)
> which is using a peer-to-peer windows network, how do you approach this?
> Say the customer has a firewall...but they don't host any services.  All
> of the PC's have local usernames and passwords that vary from machine to
> machine.  There is no one single administrator account across the board,
> and you have little time.  So you cant run many automated tools to check
> patch levels and what not because you cant get remote access to the
> registry.  There are no services to be tested from the outside.  Do you
> manually go to each machine and test them individually?  Of course you
> can run null scans on the LAN, but that is not going to provide the
> depth you need.  Any ideas and pointers would be great.

ctg

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