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RE: How to check an Executive's notebook
From: "Shenk, Jerry A" <jshenk () decommunications com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:28:51 -0400
Does this guy log into the domain? Do you have local administrator access? How about running something like MBSA against it from the outside to get an initial look? Find out what his security concerns are and maybe seed the discussion with some of your own; Is there confidential data on your laptop? Is the data on your drive encrypted? What would happen if your laptop was stolen? Maybe suggest booting from a Linux forensic CD (something that mounts the drive Read Only) and see if you can view the files on his drive. Perhaps manually traverse the tree to his My Documents directory and ask him if there is a file that would be ok for your to see if you can display. Some rather obvious things like Anti-Virus, patch levels (you might have most of that from MBSA), personal firewall. How about auto-run on his CD-ROM drive...what would happen if somebody gave him a CD that automatically ran a process that shipped data off his laptop to a competitor? A "High Powered Executive" is generally very time conscious and often rather intimidating. I think I'd develop a script ahead of time of EXACTLY what I was planning to talk about and what I was planning to check. Run through EVEYRTHING ahead of time so you don't end up fumbling around and looking like a fool. Take notes while you're working so that you can give him a report of what you found and some recommendations. Depending how "high" this guy is, it may be well worth spending 6-8 hours ahead of time planning for a meeting with him. I'd also ask him for a specific amount of time, at least 30 minutes, maybe 45...if you're lucky, you might get an hour....then stick to it. Get your testing done ahead of time so that 5 minutes before the end of your time, you've booted his laptop back up, asked him to log back in and make sure everything is functioning as before...of course, you know you didn't change anything but this will show him that you didn't change anything and will also show your desire to avoid any possible problems. -----Original Message----- From: itsec.info [mailto:itsec.info () gmail com] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:19 AM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: How to check an Executive's notebook Hi I have a client who is a very high powered Executive and he asked me to check his notebook regarding security etc. Actually this would be any easy task but he is not willing to hand over his notebook to me and I am not allowed to retrieve any data from it. Well how can you assess such a notebook and also the person's behaviour regarding security (e.g. reading his private email via smtp and the like)? The only idea I found so far is to re-direct the notebook's Internet traffic through a proxy and then I can examine this traffic and give him some advice. Any other ideas are very welcomed. -- Regards, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ This List Sponsored by: Cenzic Concerned about Web Application Security? Why not go with the #1 solution - Cenzic, the only one to win the Analyst's Choice Award from eWeek. As attacks through web applications continue to rise, you need to proactively protect your applications from hackers. Cenzic has the most comprehensive solutions to meet your application security penetration testing and vulnerability management needs. You have an option to go with a managed service (Cenzic ClickToSecure) or an enterprise software (Cenzic Hailstorm). 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- How to check an Executive's notebook itsec.info (Aug 05)
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- RE: How to check an Executive's notebook Andrej Budja (Aug 05)
- Re: How to check an Executive's notebook itsec.info (Aug 06)
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