SATAN Reference

(Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks)

1. SATAN Architecture
   1. Architecture overview
   2. Magic cookie generator
   3. Policy engine
   4. Proximity levels
   5. Target acquisition
   6. Subnet scan
   7. Data acquisition
   8. Scanning levels
   9. Inference engine
   10. Reporting and Analysis

2. The SATAN User Interface
   1. The Basics
   2. Gathering Data
   3. Data Management
   4. Looking at and understanding the results
   5. Hints, Further tricky security implications, or Getting The Big Picture (tm)
   6. The Command-line Interface

3. The most important file of all - satan.cf

4. The SATAN database record format
   1. facts - just the facts, m'am
   2. all-hosts - all the hosts seen
   3. todo - all the things it did

5. SATAN Rulesets - what makes SATAN Go
   1. Overriding/dropping SATAN data
   2. Generating new facts
   3. Ascertaining host types
   4. Determining network services
   5. Creating internal task lists
   6. Trust relation classification

6. Adding your own probes and vulnerabilities