Penetration Testing: Re: ATM & token-ring review

From: Ryan Russell <ryan_at_securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:14:13 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 jbourne_at_excite.com wrote:

> I am about to carry out a light review of a client using atm over
> token-ring.

I've never heard of atm over token ring, do you mean the other way around?
(token-ring over atm).

> Unfortunately, I don't know much about the security risks /
> benefits of such an architecture.
> If someone could give me some starting points I'd be grateful.

The majority of the fun problems will be vendor-specific, I'd recommend
determining which network equipment vendor(s) is in use.

Ryan

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Received on Jul 03 2001