Scanning
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Sending packets or requests to another system to gain information to be used in a subsequent attack.
polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
Wordset Dictionary
the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
Wordset Dictionary
the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Scannings
- possessive
- Scanning's
- pluralpossessive
- Scannings'