The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of specifications designed to standardize and automate processes related to security management, including vulnerability assessment, configuration management, and compliance auditing. SCAP provides tools and frameworks for ensuring systems are configured securely and meet compliance standards by:
Automating Vulnerability Management: SCAP uses standardized formats to assess vulnerabilities and their impact on systems.
Configuration Assessment: It evaluates system configurations against defined security baselines (e.g., CIS benchmarks).
Scoring: SCAP calculates security scores to help organizations prioritize remediation efforts.
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) itself is not software but rather a framework of open standards. It defines how tools, software, and systems can exchange information about security configurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance in a consistent, standardized format. You don't "install SCAP" directly; instead, you use software tools that implement SCAP standards to perform specific tasks.
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A) describes a function related to encryption protocols like TLS/SSL, not SCAP.
B) describes a highly restricted vulnerability disclosure model, the opposite of SCAP's open and standardized approach.
C) describes a next-generation firewall (NGFW) or intrusion prevention system (IPS), not SCAP.