Re: Vulnerability assessment for small business

From: Susan Bradley (sbradcpa@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 03:38:45 EDT


Advice them to get a server for heavens sake. 25 PCs ... peer and no
SERVER? No AD?

Jason Albuquerque wrote:

>A program (pay for) called BELARC ADVISOR can run a full audit of all
>machines on your network=2E=2E=2E=2E
>It will give you a report on each machine giving you OS, apps, patch
>levels for OS and Apps, logins, hardware audit=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E and much much
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>Jason Albuquerque
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>GIS Manager
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>Department of Information Systems
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>80 Boston Neck Road
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>Town of North Kingstown, RI 02852
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>Tel=2E (401) 268=2D1516
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>Fax (401) 295=2D2594
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>www=2Enorthkingstown=2Eorg
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> "There are 10 kinds of people in this world=2E The ones who understand
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>From: Billy Dodson [mailto:billy@pmicromart=2Ecom]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:34 PM
>To: pen=2Dtest@securityfocus=2Ecom
>Subject: Vulnerability assessment for small business
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>When doing a vuln assessment for a small business (25 PC's, no server)
>which is using a peer=2Dto=2Dpeer windows network, how do you approach this?
>Say the customer has a firewall=2E=2E=2Ebut they don't host any services=2E All
>of the PC's have local usernames and passwords that vary from machine to
>machine=2E There is no one single administrator account across the board,
>and you have little time=2E So you cant run many automated tools to check
>patch levels and what not because you cant get remote access to the
>registry=2E There are no services to be tested from the outside=2E Do you
>manually go to each machine and test them individually? Of course you
>can run null scans on the LAN, but that is not going to provide the
>depth you need=2E Any ideas and pointers would be great=2E
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