Recently, Jacob was assigned a project to test the perimeter security of one of a client. As part of the project, Jacob wants to test whether or not a particular port on the firewall is open or closed. He used the hping utility with the following syntax: #hping -S -c 1 -p -t What response will indicate the particular port is allowed in the firewall?

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A lack of response (No Response) typically indicates that the port is open and allowed through the firewall, as the firewall does not block the SYN packet and the port does not send a RST packet back.

Recently, Jacob Was Assigned a Project to Test the Perimeter