Hi,

For blackbox, greybox testing, NO. But for whitebox, you MAY if its an internal one not the internet facing.

-- Rajiv

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:18:46

To: Kid Tangerine<kidtangerine (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]>

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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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