Penetration Testing: Re: [PEN-TEST] Penetration X Auditing Teste & other misteries

["Christopher M. Bergeron" <ChrisB () HGSS COM>]

> > I can still guarantee that 'agreed' test will be much more productive than
> > the 'stealth' one.
> > Vanja Hrustic
Is it possible that if the Net admins 'know' you'll be trying to get, they may try even harder to make it difficult for 
you?  I.e. they go out of their way to apply the last 42 patches that they've been neglecting before you can find 
something... and thus produce an "inaccurate" portrait of the network.  Had the admins not been aware of the test, the 
network would have been left in a "truer" state.  A state more like what a potential black-hat would find in a real 
world scenario.  Or do you consider this a "special case" and not typical?