Hands-on Lab 5 - Vulnerability Assessment
(DUE November 10, 2005 by midnight EST) "An attacker need only detect one weakness to breach your network and take control; in other words, every potential security weakness must be identified — and secured — in order to protect your company's digital assets." [eEye Digital Security - Retina® Network Security Scanner "One step that can immediately improve information security efficiency is to conduct routine security assessments." [The nuts and bolts of a security assessment
- Download Retina® Network Security Scanner
- Install and run this fifteen-day evaluation on your home computer (DO NOT run it on any other network without written permission before hand!!!)
- Test it on your own personal computer (DO NOT test it on another person's computer without written permission!!!)
- Save your report
- Upload the report (.rtd file) into the dropbox for this assignment.
- Use Retina to answer the following questions.
- What open ports were found? Are any of these vulnerabilities?
- What other vulnerabilities were found?
- Select one of these vulnerabilities and discuss how you would patch it.
- Explore the features of the Retina Network Security Scanner and brief discuss how you would use this software in
- a home environment.
- a corporate environment.
- Upload your answers to the dropbox for this assignment.
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