Port Scanning
What is Port Scanning?
The process of sending packets to specific ports on a host to determine which services are running. Port scanning is used both by security professionals for vulnerability assessment and by attackers for reconnaissance.
Frameworks that govern port scanning
What the standards actually require on port scanning
Requirements naming port scanning across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Periodic technical security tests on production, as the regulator requires, guarantee no vulnerabilities put the system's security and operation at risk: a third-party attack simulation following a known methodology, with vulnerability analysis identifying and...
gli-33-gaming-laboratories-international-event-wagering-systems::B.9.1 · B.9.1 Technical Security Testing →Extends ISO/IEC 27002:2013 16.1.1. Every information security incident leads the processor, inside its incident management process, to check whether PII has been breached (the text refers to A.9.1, the first edition's number for the breach notification control...
iso-27018-2019::16.1.1 · Responsibilities and procedures →Extends ISO/IEC 27002:2022 5.26. Each information security incident leads the processor, inside its incident management process, to check whether PII has been breached (then A.10.1 applies).
iso-iec-27018-2025::5.26 · Response to information security incidents →Where segmentation is used to separate the CDE from other networks, the segmentation controls must be penetration tested: at least every 12 months, plus whenever segmentation controls or methods change; covering every segmentation control or method in use;
11.4.5 · 11.4.5 Annual segmentation penetration testing →Questions people ask about port scanning
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