[Techtalk] Gender as a weapon? Pen-testing and female auditors

Sue Stones suzo at spin.net.au
Thu Mar 18 19:50:09 EST 2004


On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:23 am, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> For those who do not know it already, pen-test stands for Penetration
> Testing.
> This is basically white/grey hats breaking into your systems to test if
> your security measures are appropriate and good enough.
> It is a way of finding out where you have holes in your defenses, and
> how to fix those holes.
> Penetration testing can range from simple blackbox testing (just remote
> attacks like port scanning, network mapping, vulnerability scanning,
> attempting to break in into various public services, etc) to full
> fledged penetration testing (which is where the social engineering comes
> in).

Oh well that puts a whole different slant on the whole discussion.  Though i 
don't think that it would change much of what I said. Thanks Devdas.

sue


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