A Company Contracts a Security Engineer to Perform a Penetration

question 237

Multiple Choice

A company contracts a security engineer to perform a penetration test of its client-facing web portal. Which of the following activities would be MOST appropriate?

• A) Use a protocol analyzer against the site to see if data input can be replayed from the browser
• B) Scan the website through an interception proxy and identify areas for the code injection
• C) Scan the site with a port scanner to identify vulnerable services running on the web server
• D) Use network enumeration tools to identify if the server is running behind a load balancer

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