Re: Scanning tool that will track and report diffs

From: Scott M. Algatt (salgatt@turtleshell.net)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 21:20:05 EST


Nessus and differential scans.

http://www.nessus.org/doc/kb_saving.html
http://www.nessus.org/doc/diff_scan.html

Regards,

Scott M. Algatt

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Ben Nelson wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I'm looking for a scanning tool that I can run on a regular basis which
> will: track all results in a database (optional) and report differences
> between scan runs (primary functionality I'm looking for).
>
> I started down the road of writing a python wrapper for nmap which used
> nmap's XML result output to plug into a MySQL database. But, I thought
> that this has got to be something that a lot of network auditors have a
> need for; which is usually a good indication that there may be a tool
> that already does it.
>
> Another bit of functionality that I think would be pretty useful is the
> ability to 'base-line' a set of systems and then notify when they
> deviate from this baseline.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> - --Ben
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFAPR843cL8qXKvzcwRAtvkAJ4zkrFWiDLlaLbFrvohI4IkKAwQ8ACgu1Ng
> J5iMid2wbOqd02/4DuvKFkk=
> =5as/
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Sat Apr 12 2008 - 10:53:49 EDT