Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning

Question 1

Penetration Testing (Pentest)

Answer 1

Simulate an attack

Question 2

Non-intrusive scans

Answer 2

Gather information, don’t try to exploit a vulnerability

Question 3

Intrusive scans

Answer 3

You’ll try out the vulnerability to see if it works

Question 4

Non-credentialed scans

Answer 4

The scanner can’t login to the remote device

Question 5

Credentialed scan

Answer 5

You’re a normal user, emulates an insider attack