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Re: Pen Test success rate

Subject: Re: Pen Test success rate
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:49:21 +1000
How long is a piece of string?

Doing a blind test from the outside doesn't really test much. Perhaps
the skills of the tester within the allowed time limit and targets
monetary budget for security. Proper attack can take several month.
What about trojans?  Are they allowed to email those? Perhaps
mail-order some USB keys ;) into the the targets office ;) All through
the internet.

I think that this scenario is really at a mercy of factors such as:

Amount of application the target makes available for public access.
Type of applications publicly accessible.

I don't think this is something that could be easily quantified.

Just my sad AUD$0.2   :(

  Serg


On 30/08/2007, James Kelly <macubergeek@comcast.net> wrote:
Given this scenario: Red team pen test from the Internet with no
information or cooperation from IT staff.

What would be a reasonable success rate of breaking in to say at
least DMZ machines? Of internal hosts on private network?



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