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Whats a good way to check the security of a server on the internet? Ive
tried several differant companies software, and so far, am not impressed.
Anyone have any suggestions on testing the security of a server?

Weasle wrote:

>Whats a good way to check the security of a server on the internet? Ive
>tried several differant companies software, and so far, am not impressed.
>Anyone have any suggestions on testing the security of a server?

Post a message from your server in alt.hackers.malicious requesting a
penetration test. You will quickly become familiar with how insecure
it is.

Most security professionals charge for pen-testing, but there's a few
people in there that will probably help you out for free.

One more thing, you may want to have a backup image handy.

Doesn't Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer run in Server 2003?

Microsoft has some info here, including a pointer to a new Threats and
Countermeasures Guide for WinXP and Server 2003:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...s/default.mspx

Here is a list you might want to check out:

http://www.insecure.org/tools.html

Bit Tamer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Weasle" <>
Newsgroups: alt.computer.security
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Server 2003 Security


> Whats a good way to check the security of a server on the internet? Ive
> tried several differant companies software, and so far, am not impressed.
> Anyone have any suggestions on testing the security of a server?
>
>

Bit Tamer wrote:

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Weasle" <>
>Newsgroups: alt.computer.security
>Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:04 PM
>Subject: Server 2003 Security
>
>
>> Whats a good way to check the security of a server on the internet? Ive
>> tried several differant companies software, and so far, am not impressed.
>> Anyone have any suggestions on testing the security of a server?
>>
>Doesn't Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer run in Server 2003?

That's pretty funny. Letting Micro$loth analyze it's own products.
LMAO!