Vulnerability Assessment Tools Flashcards
What are network mapping tools?
A tool used to discover and document the physical and logical connectivity in a network.
Note: This is usually one of the first tools used in a vulnerability assessment.
What are vulnerability scanning tools?
Tools designed to identify threats/vulnerabilities without exploiting them.
What is banner grabbing?
A technique to gain information about a server and track the systems or services.
What is network sniffing?
The process of finding/investigating other computers on the network by capturing sent packets or analyzing network traffic.
These are commonly known as packet sniffers, network sniffers, and protocol analyzers. They seek to packet capture.
What can a protocol analyzer do?
Capture, reassemble, and analyze packets on the network.
Note: Wireshark is the most used one, very powerful.
What is the last type of tool?
Password Analysis
Note: Will be covered later, just know about it
