[geeks] Security People haven't heard of OpenBSD!

Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri Nov 2 17:05:56 CST 2001


On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:26:18PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> I have talked to 'security people' that don't know what SSH is. Mind you he
> only knew Windows. Never even touched *nix. He also paid $5k for software
> that pretty much did exactly what nmap does (he said nmap was to hard to
> use).
> shawn

We (not me, someone way over my head) paid some "auditing company" to do a
"Security audit" of our network.  What they handed us was a Nessus report
printout. (www.nessus.org).  The UNIX admins groaned and said "we could
have saved you whatever you paid them.." but they were a BIG NAME COMPANY..

It was full of stuff like "this system is running NFS".  We were like 
"no shit."

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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