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Re: Effective Location For The Scan

Subject: Re: Effective Location For The Scan
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:01:57 -0500
I agree that scans should be completed from the inside. One explanation that I give is if a internal user browses the Internet for any reason, they may (unknowingly) bring inside some application - trojan or otherwise. This trojan could now attack your servers from the inside, thus bypassing the firewall. If your servers haven't been hardened, then someone is going to complain.

Safest thing to do is scan them as though there is no firewall present, review the results, and determine from the results whether patches need to be applied, holes patched, ports disabled, etc.

Todd Adamson
tadamson@routers.com


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