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Best practices for Vulnerability assessmt & penetrating test scans

Q1:
Does anyone scan Disaster recovery site, UAT, SIT & Development
sites?  

Q2:
For cold DR site that uses the same public & even the same
internal IP (as in ours) & same URL, I presume external it's not
possible as we'll hv duplicate IP.  One PCI-DSS doc suggests to
do VA & PT scans only for warm & hot sites: is this the common
practice?

Q3:
What about internal VA?  Do we do it on UAT, SIT & cold DR?

Q4:
Assuming cold site DR is powered down / isolated (ie not used
by even internal users), still worth doing external pentest &
internal VA?  When we apply fixes/patches/address vulnerabilities,
we propagate to our cold DR

Any best practice papers / authoritative links will be appreciated
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Thanks for the PCI doc.

The local financial regulators only suggest to do pentest/VA for new servers introduced to Production
Noted. Risk appetite differ from different industry and public sector. Thanks
For author to advice closure and any further queries.