The National Cyber Security Center, National Cyber Security Center, scans for vulnerabilities all Internet devices posted in the UK.
The goal is to evaluate the vulnerability of Great Britain to cyber attacks and help owners of systems connected to the Internet to understand the level of their cybersecurity. By words ncsc, scanning covers any system available on the Internet and vulnerabilities that are common or especially important Because of their great impact.
NCSC scanning is performed using tools posted in the selected cloud environment from the site “Scanner.Scanning.Service.ncsc.gov.uk” and two IP addresses (18.171.7.246 and 35.177.10.231).
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According to message center, all tests for Vulnerability is carried out in its own NCSC environment to identify any problems before scanning the Internet in the UK. NCSC claims that all errors found will not be used for malicious purposes.
The data collected as a result of these scans includes any data sent back when connecting to services and web servers, for example, full of HTTP settings (including headlines). Requests are designed to collect the minimum amount of information necessary to verify whether the scanned vulnerability asset is subject to.
If any confidential or personal data is unintentional collected, NCSC states that “takes steps to delete data and prevent their re-collection in the future”.
British organizations can also refuse to scan their servers by sending an email list of IP addresses that they want to exclude at [email protected].