Re: Targeting Vista

Hi Drew,

On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Flickema, Drew W. wrote:

> If Nessus is sourcing from a forested Vista install, then it should be
> able to communicate and perform it's authenticated assessment when
> targeting other clients in the forest.  If Nessus is sourcing from  
> a non
> forested client or installed on a non-windows platform, then
> authenticated checks will always fail since Nessus does not talk  
> IPSec.
>
>
> Will there be any effort to develop Nessus communications so that  
> it too
> will attempt to negotiate IPSec or fail back to clear channel?  If  
> this
> moves forward, what is the perceived impact to scan times when
> considering a global enterprise consisting of multiple Oses?

The question you're asking is not really Nessus related, although it  
does affect it -- it will depend on the configuration of the  
underlying IPSsec API (ok, in terms of packet forgery Nessus will  
also be affected a bit and we'll have to fix this).

We're going to test this setup and determine what can be done to help  
the user configure his IP stack so that IPSec is used whenever possible.


                            -- Renaud
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