>From: rodney @
subasic .
sciatl .
com (Rodney Garner)
>Subject: SATAN
>
>I am looking forward to having SATAN in my tool set.
>Like ISS, COPS, TIGER it will be a tool that I will use to keep
>my networks and envirement clean.
>If I have holes in the network I want to know about them so I can
>deal with the problem.
>
>The only threat from SATAN is to those that don't want to admit that they might
>have holes in there network and don't want to know about them.
>
Precisely! The people who refuse to admit they have a problem and need to
do something about it.
"I'm OK, I've got a programmer who takes care of that kind of thing".
OH Yea, What does he actually DO ? Show me!
The point isn't that SATAN does something which has never been done before,
but rather the way it has been publicised. Management can no longer ignore
problem, pretend it doesn't matter.
/anton
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Anton J Aylward
The Strahn and Strachan Group Inc
Information Security Consultants
Voice: (416) 494-8661 Fax: (416) 494-8803
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