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Enhance Network Security With Optimized Port Scanning Techniques

Calendar Jun 14, 2003 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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NTSecurity writes, "Port scanning offers security professionals and systems administrators a fast and effective way to identify which services or applications their servers have open to the Internet or another network. Complex OSs, such as Windows 2000, support applications that can . . . NTSecurity writes, "Port scanning offers security professionals and systems administrators a fast and effective way to identify which services or applications their servers have open to the Internet or another network. Complex OSs, such as Windows 2000, support applications that can use hundreds of ports to communicate with other clients or servers. Long gone are the days of classifying a Web server as simply port 80. In a standard installation, running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 on Win2K leaves many ports open."

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