A consultant is hired to perform a passive vulnerability assessment of a company to determine what information might be collected about the company and its employees. The assessment will be considered successful if the consultant can discover the name of one of the IT administrators. Which of the following is MOST likely to produce the needed information?
A) Whois
B) DNS enumeration
C) Vulnerability scanner
D) Fingerprinting

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Whois is a protocol used to query databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name. It can provide information about the domain owner, which might include the name of an IT administrator.

A Consultant Is Hired to Perform a Passive Vulnerability Assessment