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_________ is the process of scanning the network to find out which Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are attached to potentially vulnerable resources such as Web servers or database servers. Hardening Intrusive testing Host discovery Nonintrusive testing

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Host discovery

Step-by-step explanation:

Hot discovery is one of the preliminary stages of network reconnaissance, it begins with different IP addresses that belongs to a particular network and adopts various methods to scan and know if a host is at the IP address. Host discovery is also known as ping scan when a sonar analogy is used.

Host discovery helps to scan the particular type of host on one's network.

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