Principles of Information Security (MindTap Course List)
Principles of Information Security (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337102063
Author: Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Reasons for banning the port scanning activities on the internal networks in an organization:

The below are the reasons to ban the organization’s port scanning activities of an internal network:

  • It would be easy for a hacker or intruder to easily find the active computers through which useful information such as port address and services that are offered on the network could be found and misused.
  • The information that is gathered can be used to access a network in an illegal way...

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