Automated Vulnerability Scan To Protect Your Business

What Constitutes a Vulnerability Scan?

A vulnerability scan is an automated process that detects security holes in software, operating systems, or networks that malicious actors could exploit. Essentially, it is a core part of vulnerability management aimed at shielding businesses from breaches and the exposure of sensitive data.

Vulnerability Scan vs. Penetration Testing

Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are sometimes mistaken for each other because both methods seek to uncover vulnerabilities. Yet their distinctions strengthen network security when you use them together. Let's look at the differences:

• Vulnerability scanning is an automated process that produces vulnerability findings within minutes or over extended hours. Penetration testing, however, calls for an ethical white-hat hacker to examine the intricacies of your network and exploit weaknesses in your systems.
• A vulnerability scan allows you to identify vulnerabilities only, whereas a penetration tester lets you uncover the root cause of the vulnerability.
• The tester also relies on penetration testing tools to seek out business logic vulnerabilities that an automatic scanner could overlook.
• Vulnerability scanner tools show the possible solutions for each vulnerability, while the penetration tester remediates vulnerabilities for you.

How Do Vulnerability Scanner Tools Operate?

Even though a vulnerability scanning tool operates automatically, you still need to add the IP or IP range you want to scan. For each device, the scanner detects any user authentication, application, system, open ports, sensitive information, or event that could be a potential vulnerability. These vulnerability results are found by evaluating each host item against rules defined in the databases of Network Vulnerability Test (NVT).

After the scan process, vulnerability scanner tools typically present a list of vulnerabilities with their severity, possible solutions, and other details. Remember that this scan only reveals gaps in your security environment. Taking action to correct them is up to you.

What can you find within Unified Security Stack's Vulnerability Management?

Unified Security Stack Provides, within its Vulnerability Management solution, a feature-rich vulnerability scanner. Its functions encompass:

• Testing in unauthenticated and authenticated modes.
• A range of high-level and low-level Internet and industrial protocols.
• Tuning performance for scans at large scale.
• A robust internal programming language for implementing any type of vulnerability test.

A vulnerability tests feed with a long history and daily updates comes with the scanner. It is powered by the Greenbone Community Feed, which contains more than 50,000 vulnerability tests. It is also reinforced by Unified Security Stack additional AI-powered event correlation engine.

Cloud assessments from Unified Security Stack expose misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in cloud environments. Whether you are running your infrastructure on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OVH, the vulnerability assessment will operate in the same way.

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