Re: Asset discovery and ICMP protocol

["Albert R. Campa" <abcampa () gmail com>]

you are able to scan with the -PN in nmap to skip ping scans and head
straight to port scanning.

You can do the same thing in Nessus.



On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Subba Rao <kleanchap () tanucoo com> wrote:
> I have a few questions on Vulnerability assessment.
>
> How can network assets in an Enterprise network be discovered if the
> ICMP is turned off on the network?
>
> Does NMap depend on the ICMP protocol for mapping the network assets?
>
> How do the commercial vulnerability scanners discover the assets?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Subba Rao
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