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BALAYAGE VULNERABILITES [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

The automated process of proactively identifying security vulnerabilities of computing systems in a network in order to determine if and where a system can be exploited and/or threatened.

CONT

Vulnerability scanning employs software that seeks out security flaws based on a database of known flaws, testing systems for the occurrence of these flaws and generating a report of the findings that an individual or an enterprise can use to tighten the network's security.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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