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QualTech Solutions is a leading security services enterprise. Dickson, who works as an incident responder with this firm, is performing a vulnerability assessment to identify the security problems…
The correct answer is A. Active assessment. In the scenario described, Dickson is performing an active assessment. This type of vulnerability assessment involves using automated tools to actively scan and probe the network for identifying hosts, services, and vulnerabilities. Unlike passive assessments, which rely on…
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QualTech Solutions is a leading security services enterprise. Dickson, who works as an incident responder with this firm, is performing a vulnerability assessment to identify the security problems in the network by using automated tools for identifying the hosts, services, and vulnerabilities in the enterprise network. In the above scenario, which of the following types of vulnerability assessment is Dickson performing?
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- AActive assessment
- BExternal assessment
- CInternal assessment
- DPassive assessment
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A89% (24)
- C7% (2)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
In the scenario described, Dickson is performing an active assessment. This type of vulnerability assessment involves using automated tools to actively scan and probe the network for identifying hosts, services, and vulnerabilities. Unlike passive assessments, which rely on monitoring network traffic without direct interaction with the targets, active assessments engage directly with the network infrastructure to discover vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security issues by sending data to systems and analyzing the responses. This approach provides a more immediate and detailed view of the security posture but can also generate detectable traffic that might be noticed by defensive systems or affect the performance of live systems.
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