RE: [Full-Disclosure] Top 15 Reasons Why Admins Use Security Scan ners

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:04, Harlan Carvey wrote:
> > Someone should be.  Admins should be to confirm that
> > their environment is in
> > the state that they believe it to be.
>
> I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.  In my
> experience, the guy who set a system up shouldn't be
> the one to inspect it, or verify it.  

and
 
> With regards to the rest of your comments, I think
> you're missing the point.  I'm not saying that a
> security scanner shouldn't be run...I just don't think
> that admins should be the ones to run the scanner.



Heya Harlan, long time.

I think you are missing the point. I don't think Stuart is saying that
the admins should also be the auditors. But they should run scanners and
other security tools to verify that they did their job correctly. But
only to the extend to make corrections and such. They should not perform
an "audit" per se.

You still need independent (either outside the company or an audit
department) that runs those tools (and more) themselves during the audit
that will generate a report to management. This is probably what you are
thinking of. 

I don't think we're saying admins should audit themselves. But admins
should run tools to ensure that they did their job ok.

Cheers,
Frank

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