Your organization has a web application that processes sensitive customer data. As part of a routine vulnerability assessment, you decide to use ZAP to scan the application. What type of scan should you perform first to ensure you have a comprehensive understanding of the application's security posture without requiring authentication credentials?
Utilize a Forced Browse scan to uncover resources that were not found during the normal crawling process.
Perform a Spider scan to map out the publicly accessible areas of the application.
Initiate an AJAX Spider scan specifically focused on the JavaScript elements of the application.
Conduct an Active scan immediately to identify vulnerabilities in real-time interactions.
A Spider scan should be performed first as it crawls through the web application to identify the pages and content, providing a layout of the application's structure without the need for authentication. This is useful for gaining visibility into the publicly accessible areas of the application which could present immediate vulnerabilities. An AJAX Spider, on the other hand, is designed for more complex, JavaScript-heavy applications and requires settings tailored to the targeted application for effective crawling. Active and forced browse scans are not suitable as first steps because they are more aggressive and are better utilized after an initial understanding of the application's structure is established.
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