Which of the following should be used to complete this task?

Sara, the Chief Information Officer (CIO), has requested an audit take place to determine what services and operating systems are running on the corporate
network. Which of the following should be used to complete this task?

A.
Fingerprinting and password crackers

B.
Fuzzing and a port scan

C.
Vulnerability scan and fuzzing

D.
Port scan and fingerprinting

Explanation:
Different services use different ports. When a service is enabled on a computer, a network port is opened for that service. For example, enabling the HTTP service
on a web server will open port 80 on the server. By determining which ports are open on a remote server, we can determine which services are running on that
server.
A port scanner is a software application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to verify security policies of their
networks and by attackers to identify running services on a host with the view to compromise it. A port scan or portscan can be defined as a process that sends

client requests to a range of server port addresses on a host, with the goal of finding an active port. While not a nefarious process in and of itself, it is one used by
hackers to probe target machine services with the aim of exploiting a known vulnerability of that service. However the majority of uses of a port scan are not attacks
and are simple probes to determine services available on a remote machine.
Fingerprinting is a means of ascertaining the operating system of a remote computer on a network. Fingerprinting is more generally used to detect specific versions
of applications or protocols that are run on network servers. Fingerprinting can be accomplished “passively” by sniffing network packets passing between hosts, or
it can be accomplished “actively” by transmitting specially created packets to the target machine and analyzing the response
Incorrect Answers:
A: Fingerprinting is a means of ascertaining the operating system of a remote computer on a network. However, a password cracker is not used to determine which
services are running on network computers. Therefore, this answer is incorrect.
B: A port scan can be used to determine which services are running on network computers. However fuzzing is not used to determine which operating system the
computers are running. Fuzzing is a security assessment technique that allows testers to analyze the behavior of software applications by entering unexpected
input. Therefore, this answer is incorrect.
C: A vulnerability scanner is software designed to assess computers, computer systems, networks or applications for weaknesses. A vulnerability scan will scan for
weaknesses (vulnerabilities) in a system. It could provide information about which services are running but it is not specifically designed for this purpose. Fuzzing is
not used to determine which operating system the computers are running or which services are running on the computers. Fuzzing is a security assessment
technique that allows testers to analyze the behavior of software applications by entering unexpected input. Therefore, this answer is incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_scanner
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