Well as I've already seen the light and am migrating to HP-UX I just needed something 
to tide me over through the migration.

And it has the distinct bonus of being free.. my favourite price and well within my 
budget ;)

Stuart Eddleston
Network Administrator
SwampEast Missouri

>>> Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/11/02 10:45AM >>>
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Stuart Eddleston wrote:

> Microsoft also released a new tool today. The Microsoft Baseline
> Security Analyzer, Its only good For MS Servers of course but seems to
> do a reasonably credible job of scanning its servers for
> vulnerabilities - Whats nice about it is that it points you at the
> fixes and patches for the problems it finds so its fairly idiot proof.

HFNetcheck was a necessary and incredibly good thing.  Idiot-proofing it
is simply of incremental value.

>
> I hate to say it but it really seems that they're trying to get things
> a little better

One might however wonder about the conflict-of-interest between producing
security tools to secure products and producing security-poor products
that need such tools.  Making money off of errors, omissions and lack of
configurability in your own products isn't exactly saving the world.

Paul
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