A penetration tester ran an Nmap scan on an Internet-facing network device with the -F option and found a few open ports. To further enumerate, the tester ran another scan using the following command: nmap -O -A -sS -p- 100.100.100.50 Nmap returned that all 65,535 ports were filtered. Which of the following MOST likely occurred on the second scan?
A) A firewall or IPS blocked the scan.
B) The penetration tester used unsupported flags.
C) The edge network device was disconnected.
D) The scan returned ICMP echo replies.

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A firewall or IPS likely blocked the scan, causing all ports to appear filtered.

A Penetration Tester Ran an Nmap Scan on an Internet-Facing