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Re: Advice requested

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue May 29 15:57:54 2007

To: Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 May 2007 08:21:47 PDT."
             <web-13441896@remus.csulb.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:51:48 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Tue, 29 May 2007 08:21:47 PDT, Matthew Black said:

> What would you do if a major US computer security firm
> attempted to hack your site's servers and networks?
> Would you tell the company or let their experts figure
> it out?

Step 0: Define "attempted to hack"?

Step 1: Ask whoever acts as your CTO/CIO if you contracted for a pen test
from the company.

Step 2: If you're not a customer of the security company, contact the company,
and explain the concept of "negative advertising" to them.

 


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