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Question
An analyst ran a Nessus scan with Dangerous plugins enabled for performing a vulnerability scan against a business critical system running on the production network. This brought down the target host, without alerting on it while the scan was occurring. How could the scan have avoided crashing the target host?
Options
- ANever scan production networks, since they are business critical at all times
- BScan the business critical systems, after you disable dangerous plugins
- CDo not scan any business critical systems, since they have other priorities
- DUse a different vulnerability scanner, since Nessus is dangerous in this situation
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