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Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning
From: Warren Raquel <wraquel () UIUC EDU>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:26:00 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Connie, ~ We are currently in the process of releasing a scanning tool to our campus using Purdue's Vulnerability Scanning Cluster tool. It was rather trivial to modify it for use within our environment. The cluster can easily be distributed among a single system to however many you want to distribute the scans. It uses Nessus to perform the scans while the frontend uses a mix of php and either perl or python for the back end to run scheduled scans. With this our admins have the ability to do quick one-time scans or recurring scans as needed. If you would like more info feel free to contact me off-list. - -Warren Sadler, Connie wrote: | | | Does anyone use a commercial scanner ? something like Tenable? The | software would allow us to set up accounts and delegate rights for some | of our system administrators to run their own scans. The management | console would allow us to review results from all of the scans. Does | anyone use a commercial appliance and if not, does anyone have a | home-grown Nessus interface that makes using Nessus in a distributed | environment easier? | | | | Thanks? | | | | Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM, GIAC GSLC | Director, IT Security, Brown University | Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912 | Connie_Sadler () Brown edu | Office: 401-863-7266 | PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x91E38EFB | <blocked::http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x91E38EFB> | PGP Fingerprint: DA5F ED84 06D7 1635 4BC7 560D 9A07 80BA 91E3 8EFB | - -- Warren Raquel Security Officer, Security Services and Information Privacy Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign PGP/GPG: F88E 960B 6193 A3ED 0BB2 45C7 7DF9 57DB 6DCF 34C1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDC2o4fflX223PNMERAhl0AKCUH8nwEq0Cf1BQt68S/i/fJmBLsgCfSq1o 32idYI+bGcUuREEbdKQG/D4= =vb8g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Sadler, Connie (Aug 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Bruce Barrett (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Phillip G Deneault (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Jeff Giacobbe (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning H. Morrow Long (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Warren Raquel (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Christopher E. Cramer (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Chad McDonald (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Graham Toal (Aug 23)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning Tristan RHODES (Aug 24)
- Re: Distributed Vulnerability Scanning patrick cain (Aug 25)