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I was told by a "product manager" that in order to properly scan/test/etc
a Windows network the network scanner had to run on a windw2os box doing
windows network to avoid reimplemeting all the windows network protocols.
Thus the ISS ISS had to use NT for scanning windows machines. To simplify
support ISs then moved all of ISS to there and built the console platorm there
to take advantage of the "wonderful" aka cheap support for databases and
report generating in that platform. This wins points with corporate clients
who think all microsoft/all windows/all the time. And thats where the money
is.
So what if its a publicity disaster waiting to happen when a high profile
customer has an NT box compromised and decides not to cover it up. Most will
cover it up and I guess ISS expect s to blame the victim inthe other cases.
Of course a good architecture would have portable data collection / selection /
reporting tools that ran on NT or Unix systems, that used real databases to
store information and that could talk to Platofmr specific sensors, scanners,
etc. and even platform specific consoles so we could remotely access and manage
the clients from the server engine securely without using any Micro$oft based
tools, just well defined, well understood ones. Oh how I LONG for ascii
output of reports from ISS ISS so I can easilly edit and mail them around.
This is of course really bad from a security point of view.
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> Hiyas,
> Quick question, apologies if it's off topic. I just been put on
> the system scanner team at work and want to check on a couple of
> things. They tell me that it's NT only for console/database. Is there a
> Unix/Solaris/Oracle version? What's the last version that could be ran off
> a unix box (not talking about the agent).
> Anyone have any ideas why it went all NT for 4.2, I know of many
> places that will not deploy an NT based solution if at all possible.
> -Tai
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