From: Ţórhallur Hálfdánarson (tolli@tol.li)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 20:39:58 EDT
Maybe I'm pointing out something said many times before, but I guess that comes with newcomers. :)
-*- Henry O. Farad <lrcrypto@red4est.com> [ 2003-06-24 23:36 ]:
> 1) On pen-testing and honeypots:
>
> This is the question I asked, rather than the one that I meant to
> ask. In many cases, the customer will say "Don't bother attacking
> these systems, they are honeypots". In this case the pen tester will
> end up testing the security of the "production machines" without
> wasting time on the honeypots. However, this will not test the system
> as a whole, since the honeypots are part of the complete security
> scenario.
Some point on situations where you have little as no information up front on the target.
The client will probably want to know how easily identifiable his honeypots are, before access has been gained on the honypot. If a decoy is a part of the security measures, it should be working.
Then again, the client might have gotten the idea to disguise a productional system as a honeypot to distract intruders... so I guess you'll have to perform the pentest anyway. ;) Although, as most intruders would, save it 'til the end.
For different client requests (like Acl Proxy mentioned), this obviously does not apply.
On a side note, Michael Boman brought up an interesting point:
"There is a viable scenario for this. Let's say ACME Inc. wants to do their own pen-tests because they [...] want to steal their tools and techniques".
A questioncrossed my mind yesterday that's related to this -- "Do pentesters have clauses in their contracts regarding the client re-using the methods used by pentesters" -- that is for knowledge gained by the client from information not-in-the-report, but through devices tested.
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