Content preview from Practical Network Scanning
- How many levels of vulnerability have Nessus categorised?
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 7
- Which of the following is not a part of system security hardening?
- Shutting down unused services
- Implementing an IDS
- Patching the operating system
- Logging analytics
- What is the most important reason to run the system utility, NetStat ?
- To mitigate DDoS attempts
- To edit system registry
- To check passwords
- To determine open ports on host
- What is the best approach when using scanners?
- Use an external scanner
- Use multiple scanners
- Use one scanner to scan all remote network
- To get the best results, use one scanner per network segment of an asset
- Which is not a network scanner?
- Qualys
- Openvas
- Nessus
- Radware
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