[157562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan White)
Mon Oct 29 15:52:45 2012
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:46:46 -0500
From: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
To: "Pedersen, Sean" <Sean.Pedersen@usairways.com>
In-Reply-To: <7EF4A8B03B0A3A44858C8B42E0DB236A0121BCA40E2B@PHX-52N-EXM04A.lcc.usairways.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/29/12 12:10 -0700, Pedersen, Sean wrote:
>We're evaluating several tools at the moment, and one vendor wants to
>dynamically scan our network to pick up hosts - SNMP, port-scans, WMI, the
>works. I was curious if anyone had any particularly gruesome horror
>stories of scanning tools run amok.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=334&articleid=20121002_11_A1_CUTLIN325691
A > layer 7 failure. Make sure all members of your organization are aware
of your plans.
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Dan White
