ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
During a quarterly compliance audit you are preparing to run an authenticated vulnerability scan against a mission-critical ERP server that must remain available to users. To reduce the chance of disrupting production during business hours, which scanner configuration should you verify first before launching the assessment?
Select a report template that outputs scores using CVSS v3 metrics.
Disable ICMP echo requests in the discovery phase to reduce traffic.
Confirm that scan performance is throttled (low-intensity mode with limited concurrent probes).
Enable all exploit and denial-of-service test plugins for maximum coverage.
The most immediate safeguard is to ensure the scanner's performance or rate-limiting (sometimes called low-intensity or safe-throttle mode) is enabled. This restricts the number of concurrent checks, connection threads, or packets per second so the ERP server is not overwhelmed. Disabling exploit plugins can further reduce risk but will not protect the server if the scan still hammers it with too many simultaneous probes. Blocking ICMP echo or choosing a CVSS v3 report template has little to no effect on the operational load the scan imposes.
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