Disabling IPS for PENTEST

[Kid Tangerine <kidtangerine () gmail com>]

All,

Corporate has requested we get a PENTEST for our Internet facing
website from a third party, but the third party asked us to allow
their ip address to be excluded from our IPS.

Is that a common practice to basically turn off our protection and
allow them in?

Obviously we aren't developers, so If the code has sql injections,
cross site scripting, etc vulnerabilities we cannot fix it within the
corporate guidelines, and our only leverage from the IT infrastructure
side is to include the needed filters in the IPS to prevent their
crappy code from being exploited. It we turn off the IPS I am sure all
kinds of things will show up.

Any experience appreciated.

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