A security engineer is attempting to map a company's internal network. The engineer enters in the following NMAP command: NMAP -n -sS -P0 -p 80 ... What type of scan is this?

A quick scan uses the -F flag to scan a reduced set of ports, which is not present in this command.

An intense scan uses -T4 -A to enable OS detection, version scanning, and script scanning, none of which are specified here.

The -sS flag instructs NMAP to send a SYN packet and, upon receiving a SYN-ACK, respond with RST instead of completing the TCP handshake. This half-open technique avoids creating a full connection that would appear in application logs, making detection harder and earning it the name stealth scan.

A comprehensive scan typically combines -sS -sU -T4 -A -v across a broad port range, far beyond the single-port scan shown here.