Re: Pen-Test as a favor

From: Phil Frederick (flosofl@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 12:27:41 EDT


CYA. Everytime. It doesn't matter how much you trust someone.
Things can change.

Always get a contract outlining exactly what will be occuring, what
you are allowed to do, who is authorising it, etc...

I couldn't find a template per se, but I did find an old post from the
Network Security archive which has some great guidelines:

http://www.networksecurityarchive.org/html/Pen-Test/2006-05/msg00253.html

I'd send you a copy if I had one, but I don't handle the legal end of things...

On 7/12/06, Chris Benedict <chrisb@daemonnews.org> wrote:
> Hey, I'm working as an IT intern in a doctors office and I got
> permission to do a little pen-testing on their servers on my own time.
> How necessary would it be to get written permission before I take any
> action? The Admin/CTO is a pretty good friend and I doubt would even
> consider taking any legal action if anything happened.
>
> If I do need a contract or something could someone point me in the
> direction of a template. I have never even seen such a
> contract/agreement before and I would never be able to write one up on
> my own properly.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Benedict
>
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