One easy for them to understand reason would be something like this. For
example many Virii and trojans phone home and allow the owner a reverse
shell effectivelly bypassing the firewall and no they are nolonger
attacking from the public side but the internal side. A hard shell is
nice but a soft chewy center is only nice for the hackers need some nuts
in there
Larry Offley
www.offley.ca
mr.nasty@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Thanks for the responses. You've confirmed what I had passed to mgmt. But I
still have a problem (with mgmt) understanding why?...
I perform vulnerability analysis on our outside (public) web presense, usually
during development and then after it's been deployed. I basically use the same
tools for each.
Mgmt wants me to only test through the firewall as if I'm coming in like the
public. The rational is that the fw will prevent any attacks though ports other
than 80 and 443. Therefore, there is no reason to change this configuration.
What would be the reason to test behind the firewall?
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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