Re: scanning ports for known vulnerabilities

Just so people know of the possible one, here is a list
that I found on the web.  I am looking for recommendations
on using any of these or other products.

These are cve compatible products:
http://cve.mitre.org/compatible/organizations.html

So can you (redhat list) make any recommendations?

Ian Douglas wrote:

>>I thought those were preventative measures, not
>>probing tools.
>>
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>Don't know about HackerShield, but yes tripwire is a preventative measure as
>well as a great reporting tool to see after the fact if key system files have
>changed. Warning though: this can get tedious to use if you install a lot of
>Perl libraries or upgrade RPM files...
>
>My understanding is that 'nmap' is more of a probing tool, but doesn't report
>how to fix any vulnerabilities. I could be wrong though.
>
>I don't know of any other tools that do both probing AND reporting on what to
>fix.
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