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Scanning

nounid 3986·updated May 12, 2026
candidate

Sending packets or requests to another system to gain information to be used in a subsequent attack.

polysemous

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Scannings
possessive
Scanning's
pluralpossessive
Scannings'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Sending packets or requests to another system to gain information to be used in a subsequent attack.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Sending packets or requests to another system to gain information to be used in a subsequent attack.
Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
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
§2
the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Sending packets or requests to another system to gain information to be used in a subsequent attack.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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