A complete diagram makes their life easier, may make for a more complete test, but they are working for you, so if you don't have it, you don't have. I'm not a big fan of having a single diagram with everything laid out anyway, but I'm from the old shcool. -jim On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Green, Timothy <Timothy.Green@mantech.com> wrote:
Howdy all,
I'm a Security Manager of a large network, we are conducting a Pentest next month and the testers are demanding a complete network diagram of the entire network. We don't have a "complete" network diagram that shows everything and everywhere we are. At most we have a bunch of network diagrams that show what we have in various areas throughout the country. I've been asking the network engineers for over a month and they seem to be too lazy to put it together or they have no idea where everything is.
I've never been in this situation before. Should I be honest to the testers and tell them here is what we have, we aren't sure if it's accurate; find everything else? How would they access those areas that we haven't identified? How can I give them access to stuff that I didn't know existed?
What do you all do with your large networks? One huge network diagram, a bunch of network diagrams separated by region, or both? Any pentest horror stories?
Thanks,
Tim
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