Kaplan University
IT286
Unit 7
Jennifer Polisano
Question 7-1: Write a one page comparison of penetration testing versus the vulnerability scans.
What are the differences and what are the similarities? Outline the steps for a penetration test.
Discuss approaches to a penetration test and vulnerability scan in terms of black box, white box and gray box tests.
Answer 7-1: A vulnerability scan, also known as a vulnerability assessment, scans for known vulnerabilities within a system and reports potential exposures. Whereas a penetration test goes further to exploit weaknesses within a system architecture or computing environment. Another difference is where the vulnerability scan can be automated, the penetration test requires various levels of tester expertise. This goes back to the difference between an IT Professional and a hacker. An IT Professional would be the one to run a vulnerability scan, whereas, a hacker would perform a penetration test.
Penetration testing is usually performed once a year. The test is designed to be short and to the point at identifying what, if anything, has been compromised.
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10. There are four phases of penetration testing, according to NIST. They are planning, discovery, attack, and reporting. In the planning phase, rules are identified, management approval is finalized, and testing goals are set. The discovery phase starts the actual testing. Techniques commonly used in the discovery phase include port scanning, DNS interrogation, whois queries, search of the target organizations web servers, search of the LDAP, packet capture, NetBIOS enumeration, and Banner grabbing. While vulnerability scanners only check that a vulnerability may exist, the attack phase of a penetration test exploits the vulnerability, confirming its existence. The reporting phase occurs simultaneously with the other three phases of the penetration test.
12. What constitutes a situation in which a penetration tester should not compromise or access a system as part of a controlled penetration test?
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