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RE: Intrusion Prevention


From: Frank Knobbe <fknobbe () knobbeits com>
Date: 11 Dec 2002 15:51:39 -0600

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:30, Matthew L. McGuirl wrote:
ActiveScout's whole approach to the issue of reducing false positives is to assume that all attacks occur after a 
reconnaissance effort has been conducted. While this is certainly true in many cases it is unlikely that _all_ 
attacks follow recon.

... or that all attacks are coming from the same source IP address.
Anyone that, during a pen test, scans the target from the same IP
address that he performs attacks from, should seriously revisit his
pen-test methodology.

Regards,
Frank

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