From: John Skinner (john.skinner@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2006 - 09:49:20 EDT
On 8/9/06 4:22 PM, "Lyndon Barry" <lyndon.barry@d-a-p.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> First post, so please be gentle.
>
> I'm a support engineer for a firewall developer, and part of my role
> involves keeping the network safe. The problem is, I don't know enough
> about penetration attacks to know what I should look for. I do have
> access to testbeds & test networks with which to practice, but I was
> hoping someone on here could point me to a good source of ethical
> information/tools in order to start getting the right knowledge.
>
> Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted.
>
> Lyndon
You can start buy looking through INSECURE.ORG's top 100 Network Security
Tools at http://sectools.org/ to learn of the popular tools used. Then you
could search the web to learn how to use each one that sparks your interest.
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Computer Systems Administrator
Vanderbilt University
john.skinner@vanderbilt.edu
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