
YuChakTinMichael‘sGIACGCFWProjectAssignment
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Therefore,theservershouldbeinvestigatedsuchthat
theservicesusingtheseportsareentirelydisabled.
ThefactthattheOStypeoftheserverisdetected
deservesahighlynegativecomment.Thisallowsa
hackertoinitiateOS/platform/productspecific
attacks.
TheRASserverdoesnothaveIDSinstalled.So, by
itselftheintrusionattemptcouldnotbedetected.The
RASserverisalikelyattacktarget,anditis
recommendedthatafirewall/IDSbeimplementedon
ittoprovideacertaindegreeofprotection.
Otherassessmentmethods
ConfigureamodemdialupclienttodialintotheRASserver.Testthe
authenticationmechanismandthecallbacksecuritysetting:
n Trytomakemultipleloginattemptswiththewrongpasswordstodetermine
ifaccountlockoutworks.
n TrytodisablecallerIDandmakecallsfromdifferentphonenumberstosee
ifcallbacksecurityworks.
TheRASServersuccessfullyauthenticatedthe
legitimateusersandrejectedthenonlegitimate
clients.
AlthoughtheRASservercansatisfactorilyauthenticate
usersandmaintainacertainlevelofsecurity,itis
importanttorealizethepointsbelow:
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