From: Mark Teicher (mht3@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 07:33:26 EDT
What do you mean by "official buy-in with upper management" Upper Management may not be aware of the ramifications of "accidental fallout". Most companies Modem Security Policy has not been reviewed since the age of the Mainframes, maybe.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Scheidell <scheidell@secnap.net>
>Sent: May 15, 2006 9:39 PM
>To: Karyn Pichnarczyk <karyn@sandstorm.net>, Mark Teicher <mht3@earthlink.net>
>Cc: pen-test@securityfocus.com
>Subject: RE: Modem assessment, was: Re: Pentester convicted..
>
>> Our company sells a wardialer (PhoneSweep) and we recommend
>> that before a scan is begun that there is some sort of
>> official buy-in with upper management so that if there is any
>> accidental fallout as a result of the scan you are covered.
>> Having a company approved Modem Security Policy also helps.
>> We recommend that a few short scans be done prior to the
>> actual scan, so that any abnormalities in PBX's, VM systems,
>> etc are dealt with prior to the company-wide scan commencing.
>
>As I read that, I thought 'hey, they should use phonesweep and its
>digital magic voice recognition stuff (if the modem supports it, and I
>recommend doing that!)
>
>I have used it, like it, and when they finally fixed that nasty mysql
>going to sleep thing it actually made the 'schedule this to run at
>night' portion useful.
>
>Great stuff, and I wrote my own back in the early 80's and like this one
>much better.
>
>Anyone doing any commercial wardialing should investigate it.
>
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