It depends on what the focus of the test is.

Are you trying to see how vulnerable your website is to attack on its own or are you trying to assess how secure it is in your environment?

If it's the latter, the IDS should be part of the test and left on as turning it off only makes the report look worse.

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To: Kid Tangerine
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Subject: Re: Disabling IPS for PENTEST

I don't have any experience, but I think that disabling the IDS/allowing their IP is wrong.

The main purpose of a pen test is to assess the vulnerabilities on your system. An attacker has to deal with the IDS. If you disable for them, just makes their job easier.

If I were the one to decide, I would say no.

But, once again, I got no experience.

A 06/08/2012, às 14:57, Kid Tangerine escreveu:

> 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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