[359] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Internet Scanner (ISS) info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adamsb@un.org)
Tue Sep 26 03:33:53 1995
From: adamsb@un.org
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 18:29:42 EST
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Cc: aseymour@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
> Does anyone have any info regarding
> this product.
I believe that the people who sell it subscribe to this list.
People are reluctant to say what they actually use on Internet lists.
Personally, I use everything I can get my hands on. Of course I'm
paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? :-)
Earlier this year I took a look at the commercial version of ISS and
concluded that it is at least three times more powerful than SATAN.
I also took a look at Pingware from Bellcore, which has a different
design philisophy. Whereas ISS very efficiently probes for security
holes and will tell you what they are, Pingware is an automatic hacker
and highly effective.
If your company can afford it, get both ISS and Pingware. I believe
that if you use both and patch the holes you find, then nobody is going
to be able to crack your systems (unless they can get a packet sniffer
into your network, in which case you need to add encryption).
Hog Farmer,
Tropical Hog Improvement Programme
