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Re: Effective Location For The Scan ---- What is the minimum requirement

from [George A. Theall] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Effective Location For The Scan ---- What is the minimum requirement to insure scans are not distorted.
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:52:22 -0400 
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:40:18AM -0700, -soundlux- wrote:

But assuming that they insist that the Nessus scan must be run from outside the firewall, the question is:

Is there configuration setting/requirement that must exist on the the firewall (or any other security appliance) to ensure that Nessus scans from a box outside the firewall won't be block or the resultant scan results wont't be distorted?

If you're running scans from outside the network to see what the *external* threats are, you shouldn't be making any changes to the firewall for Nessus. You will, though, need to take care when configuring the scans themselves, especially in the area of the port scanners.

George
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