CIAC Notes 7: A Look at SATAN

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As a good citizen I should have past this on sooner.
frank
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Number 95-07                                               March 29, 1995

In order to provide timely, useful information on the upcoming release
of the SATAN tool, CIAC is releasing a special issue of CIAC
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A Look at SATAN
John Fisher
CIAC Team
ciac@llnl.gov


Introduction

Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, or SATAN, is a
tool for investigating the vulnerabilities of remote systems.
Systematically moving through a given Internet subdomain, it
probes for weakness in each responding system. The vulnerabilities
uncovered are then reported to the user.

Due to be released April 5, SATAN is the join

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