Penetration Testing: Re: Pentest Letter of Achievement/Certificate

["blowfish 448" <blowfish448 () hotmail com>]

Ron,

I won't go that far to say they are looking for golden stars and blinking 
seals on the web site
or anything. They merely need such letter as a statement to their customers 
to show they take
security serious and their environment/applications are verified according 
to a certain
procedure/methodology prior to launching it. The final report however they 
do not want to disclose
due to the sensitive, confidential information it contains. Also do they 
accept and understand such
statement does not provide any warranty whatsoever and only represents a 
certain situation in time.

Thanks




> From: "R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>
> To: <julie.holmwood>
> CC: "blowfish 448" <blowfish448 () hotmail com>,<pen-test () securityfocus com>
> Subject: Re: Pentest Letter of Achievement/Certificate
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:45:52 +0100
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> Isn;t the final report pentesters report what is being asked for here?(0) 
> Or are companies really hung up on and seeking gold stars to post in public 
> areas and at the bottom of stationary?  Kinda like the certifications that 
> M$ got for NT back in the late 90's I guess, meaningless in any env other 
> then the single system they had tested....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
>
> (0) in most cases that pentesters report is likely to be backed with the 
> corp documentation showing how they mitigated the issues found during the 
> pentest.  Afterall, few companeis should ever comeout of a thourough 
> penttest unscathed.  So they document how they corrected what was 
> discerovered, and perhaps have another outside party verify the 
> 'corrections'.  but gold starts and report cards, or neat little 
> certificates in frames?  <shakes his head>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, John Kinsella wrote:
>
> > I think http://www.isecom.org/osstmm/ might cover what you're looking
> > for...
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:52:42PM +0200, blowfish 448 wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > any of you know if any 'standards' or accepted guidelines exist for a
> > > letter or certification
> > > of succesfull resistance to Penetration Testing/Vulnerability Assessment.
> > > Customers often
> > > demand to have a proof delivered by their Penetration Test service 
> > > provider
> > > to show to their
> > > partners and customers.
> > >
> > > The idea of course is not to disclose sensitive information but to 
> > > briefly
> > > describe
> > > the environment tested and how - according to which methodologies and the
> > > attack vectors
> > > tested for.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
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