Jim performed a vulnerability analysis on his network and found no potential problems. He runs another utility that executes exploits against his system to verify the results of the vulnerability test. The second utility executes five known exploits against his network in which the vulnerability analysis said were not exploitable. What kind of results did Jim receive from his vulnerability analysis?

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Jim received false negatives because the vulnerability analysis failed to identify vulnerabilities that were actually exploitable, as demonstrated by the second utility successfully executing known exploits.

Jim Performed a Vulnerability Analysis on His Network and Found