SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) is designed to automate vulnerability management, configuration assessment, and compliance checking. According to CompTIA Security+ SY0-701, SCAP standardizes how vulnerability information is expressed, measured, and shared, allowing security tools to automatically scan systems, identify weaknesses, and assess compliance against predefined baselines.
SCAP integrates multiple standards such as CVE, CVSS, CPE, and XCCDF, enabling automated vulnerability scanning, scoring, and reporting across large environments. This makes it a core technology for continuous vulnerability management and compliance automation.
CVE (A) is a catalog of known vulnerabilities, not an automation framework. OSINT (C) provides publicly available intelligence but does not automate remediation or assessment. CVSS (D) provides severity scoring but does not automate vulnerability management.
Because SCAP enables automated identification, assessment, and reporting of vulnerabilities, the correct answer is B: SCAP.
