A university wants to increase the security posture of its network by implementing vulnerability scans of both centrally managed and student/employee laptops. The solution should be able to scale, provide minimum false positives and high accuracy of results, and be centrally managed through an enterprise console. Which of the following scanning topologies is BEST suited for this environment?

A. A passive scanning engine located at the core of the network infrastructure

B. A combination of cloud-based and server-based scanning engines

C. A combination of server-based and agent-based scanning engines

D. An active scanning engine installed on the enterprise console

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Computers & Technology

Dixie Johnson

9 August, 04:46

A university wants to increase the security posture of its network by implementing vulnerability scans of both centrally managed and student/employee laptops. The solution should be able to scale, provide minimum false positives and high accuracy of results, and be centrally managed through an enterprise console. Which of the following scanning topologies is BEST suited for this environment?

A. A passive scanning engine located at the core of the network infrastructure

B. A combination of cloud-based and server-based scanning engines

C. A combination of server-based and agent-based scanning engines

D. An active scanning engine installed on the enterprise console

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Ana Kelly · Answer 1

Answer: D. An active scanning engine installed on the enterprise console

Alayna Willis · Answer 2

Answer: (D) An active scanning engine installed on the enterprise console

Explanation:

If an active scanning engine is installed on the enterprise console than it would be able to probe request and also listen other request for implementing vulnerability scans of both centrally managed and student/employee laptops.