{
  "port": 8292,
  "protocol": "both",
  "service": "blp3 — Bloomberg professional",
  "oneLiner": "Registered to Bloomberg for the Bloomberg Professional service; no public protocol documentation.",
  "whatItIs": "IANA assigns the service name blp3 on TCP and UDP 8292 to Bloomberg, described only as \"Bloomberg professional\", registered in May 2006. Bloomberg's terminal software is a proprietary client that reaches out to Bloomberg's network, so this normally appears as an outbound flow on a trading-floor workstation rather than as a listener you can scan. The wire protocol is not published. Nmap sees the port open on roughly 0.02% of hosts, which is registry noise more than deployment.",
  "exposure": {
    "verdict": "careful",
    "note": "If something is actually listening here it is not the Bloomberg client, which is an outbound connector. Identify the process before deciding anything about exposure."
  },
  "checkCommand": "sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:8292 -sTCP:LISTEN",
  "links": [
    {
      "title": "IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry",
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml",
      "kind": "iana"
    },
    {
      "title": "nmap-services — Nmap port frequency data",
      "url": "https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/nmap-services",
      "kind": "github"
    }
  ]
}