Your team is preparing to conduct a vulnerability assessment on a critical system during peak business hours with the requirement to minimize any potential disruptions to network traffic. Which type of vulnerability scanning should they opt for?
Passive scanning is designed not to interact directly with the systems being monitored; it listens to network traffic and infers vulnerabilities from the traffic flow, thus minimizing the risk of causing disruptions or outages.
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