From: Rainer Duffner (rainer@ultra-secure.de)
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 15:23:46 EDT
Doty, Stephen (BearingPoint) wrote:
>How does something like CA's eTrust Vulnerability Manager product compare -
>so that continual scanning is not required using ISS, Nessus, Retina, etc ?
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How does this thing work then ?
I mean, NeVO uses passive scanning, and Nessus-scanning, but this "thing" ?
Oh, I see:
"Q: How does eTrust Vulnerability Manager detect vulnerabilities? "
"A: eTrust Vulnerability Manager uses non-intrusive methods to detect
vulnerabilities on an asset through a two-step process. Step one is the
identification of technologies running on an asset. This may be
accomplished through manual input or automatically by eTrust"
Vulnerability Manager Service, which identifies the version, patch and
hot fix level of technologies running on an asset. This information is
then correlated with CA s security database to identify the
vulnerabilities that apply to the asset."
Can anyone, who runs this, comment on wether this leads to lots of false
positives/false negatives ?
Does it need an agent ?
And, to be honest, I can't stand "appliances" with specs like that:
"eTrust Vulnerability Manager is an appliance-based solution that runs
on Windows 2000 Server Platform and can be accessed by Internet Explorer
5.0 and higher. "
A 'security-appliance' with the most bug-ridden, most-exploited OS on
the planet, to be used with the most bug-ridden, most-exploited
application running on top of it ?
And:
"In addition, eTrust Vulnerability Manager Service supports: " IBM AIX "
HP-UX " Red Hat Linux " Sun Solaris " Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003"
Does that mean it only detects vulnerabilities on those OSs ?
What about all the other stuff that floats around ? The printer that
runs some form of embedded Linux with a vulnerable Apache ?
Rainer
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