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| Subject: | Re: Nessus scanning and mainframe computers |
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| Date: | Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:20:27 +0100 |
On Tue Oct 31 2006 at 20:45, Kelly, Jim wrote:
Has anyone evaluated the appropriateness of using Nessus to scan mainframe computers?
Well... Mainframes usually run critical applications, so I never dared to launch a full scan against one of those big beasts.
I looked through the plugins and don't see any that seem particularly relevant.
Note that Nessus has many generic tests, but many of them are dangerous and will be only enabled in unrestricted (not safe_checks) mode. If you can afford to crash the mainframe or some services (i.e. if you are currently *not running production applications on it, just testing), try to run a full Nessus scan: - all 65K ports - no safe checks - enable experimental and thorough tests (in the "Prefs") - test SSL on all ports -- http://arboi.da.ru/ http://ma75.blogspot.com/ PGP key ID : 0x0BBABA91 - 0x1320924F0BBABA91 Fingerprint: 1048 B09B EEAF 20AA F645 2E1A 1320 924F 0BBA BA91 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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