What does vulnerability scanning do?

What does vulnerability scanning do?

Vulnerability scanning is the process of scanning software and systems for known vulnerabilities. A vulnerability scanner will maintain and refer to a massive database of known vulnerabilities in order to compare and classify anything it finds. Vulnerability scanners...
How do you perform a vulnerability scan?

How do you perform a vulnerability scan?

How do you perform a vulnerability scan? A vulnerability scan is performed by a piece of software that resides either on a system inside the network, or more often on a cloud service. Modern scanners are very powerful and have a lot of automation built-in, so for a...
Vulnerability scanning

Vulnerability scanning

What does vulnerability scanning do? Vulnerability scanning is the process of scanning software and systems for known vulnerabilities. A vulnerability scanner will maintain and refer to a massive database of known vulnerabilities in order to compare and classify...
What is a virtual CISO? When and how to hire one

What is a virtual CISO? When and how to hire one

Chief information security officers (CISOs) are in high demand, and good ones are expensive and difficult to find. Following a rash of high-profile data breaches, and knowing that such breaches have far-reaching consequences that are far more costly than the cost of...