Your organization has varied OS, applications, and hardware from multiple vendors, and the team is missing critical updates because each system is labeled differently. A security engineer proposes a recognized naming method that includes vendor, product, and version details for each system. Which method best addresses this requirement?
Enabling wildcard discovery rules in all vulnerability scanners to unify results
Basing host labels on individual user accounts to differentiate systems
Adopting a naming convention that references each system’s attributes, including vendor and version
Relying on IP addresses to categorize devices throughout the network
Referencing a recognized naming method that reflects vendor, product, and version details allows consistent identification across different environments. This improves the accuracy of scans and patching workflows. The other choices either rely on inconsistent or partial approaches that can lead to misidentified entries and gaps in coverage.
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