VULNERABILITY SCANNING/PEN TESTING QUESTIONS | TESTED AND PROVEN ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 100% (GRADE A+)

VULNERABILITY SCANNING/PEN TESTING
QUESTIONS | TESTED AND PROVEN ANSWERS |
LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 100% (GRADE A+)
penetration tests


Ans>> Focussed efforts to determine the effectiveness of security controls used to protect a

system.




Vulnerability Assessment


Ans>> Catalogs vulnerabilities into a system.




High risk aggregate


Ans>> When a series of low risk items can be sequentially exploited to gain access, they're

referred to as ________ _____________ ________.




1. Focus on the most commonly employed threat vectors seen in currentenvrionment. 2. Focus

on objectives of real world attackers.


Ans>> 2 Critical elements of Pen Testing



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, reconnaissance


Ans>> Obtaining an understanding of the system and its components that attackers may want to

attack.




Active Reconnaissance


Ans>> A penetration testing method that interacts with the network and systems in a manner that

their use can be observed. May alert defenders to impending attack.




Passive Reconnaissance


Ans>> Penetration testing that uses tools that do not provide information to the network or

systems under investigation.




Active Tools


Ans>> Tools suh as Nmap that interact with a target system in a fashion where their use can be

detected.




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