A county IT team needs a repeatable way to find missing patches and known weaknesses on the public web farm before citizens notice outages. Which vulnerability-management activity best identifies those known issues?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of a scheduled health check on the city's fleet—scans poke the web farm for missing patches and known CVEs so you find problems before callers do. That identification step is the scanner's job, not waiting for tickets or turning logs off.
Full Explanation
Vulnerability scanning systematically probes hosts and applications for missing patches, misconfigurations, and signatures of known weaknesses. In a municipal web farm it is a primary identification method within vulnerability management, feeding prioritization and remediation. Reactive tickets or disabling telemetry do not substitute for proactive discovery of known issues.