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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0404301136230.14654-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: Top 15 Reasons Why Admins Use Security Scan
 ners

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Harlan Carvey wrote:

	[SNIP]
>
> But there's also another way to look at the original
> comment...security is a process.  Running a
> vulnerability scanner isn't a process...it's a
> point-in-time check, a snapshot.

Ad it's not in and of itself completely that;  it's a number of potentials
that need to be hand checked for accuracy.  Scanners are not a do all tool
of complete trust, they are a tool to provide pointers, at a point-in-time
for sure.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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