bugtraq - Re: What can a Remote Vulnerability Scanner do in Future?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0602131010010.8318@tnelson.webalive.biz>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:16:22 +1100 (EST)
From: Tim Nelson <security@...alive.biz>
To: Alice Bryson <abryson@...efocus.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, vulnwatch@...nwatch.org,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, ntbugtraq@...ugtraq.com
Subject: Re: What can a Remote Vulnerability Scanner do in
	Future?

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Alice Bryson wrote:

...
>    Eeye scanner could not do remote local check too. So I am consider
> what can Remote Vulnerability Scanner do? Will this thing disappear in
> the future?

 	Scan for remote vulnerabilities.  Scanning for local 
vulnerabilities can obviously only be done locally.

 	Basically you need to have a remote access method before you can 
do anything remotely.  It might be useful to get a windows version of sshd 
or cfengine.  Another possibility would be to make the local scanner 
executable available on the network, and then have each machine 
individually download it and run it locally.

 	Basically, to check for local vulnerabilities, you need:
1.	A deployment process (hopefully simple)
2.	An execution process

 	This is exactly what cfengine was designed to solve in the Unix 
world.

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