Initial Progress Report
Tristan Besser, Derron Ward, Jesse Cable
Initial Findings
Since the main goal of our project is to produce a penetration test, we have taken this
module to research/explore possible entry points into a system. We found the effective
“Nmap” tool that helps us in evaluating open ports within a system that could potentially
receive attacks. After initial testing between our local machines, we came up with little
luck. This was one of our downfalls. We set up test ports to open so we could see if
Nmap could find them. We assume the reason behind this is because of firewall
configurations. We tried this between Linux and Windows based systems. This
upcoming module, we plan on running more test scenarios and finding more information
on how to obtain open ports as well as how to access them from the outside. Once we
figure out how to do that, we can then move on to phase 2 of the project, which is
actually penetrating and then phase 3 will finally be to see how well the system
responds to the threat.