VULNERABILITY SCANNERS HELP FIND HOSTS AND OTHER SYSTEMS WHICH ARE VULNERABLE TO KNOWN ATTACKS.
Most scanners (commercial or otherwise) are designed to be run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. It is up to the user to run the scan by hand or to schedule it to run at a preset time and date. The notion of real-time vulnerability scanning has recently begun to get addressed by IDS vendors like Sourcefire. Sourcefire employs Real-time Network Awareness (RNA) as a form of real-time vulnerability analysis
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Key features
- Identifying Lack of Security Controls
- Passively Testing Security Controls
- Direct connectivity to Data Centres
- Identifying Vulnerabilities and Misconfigurations
- Vulnerability Scan as a Management Control
- Protocol analyzer
Who is it for?
A2TELECOM vulnerability scanner can identify vulnerabilities, misconfigured systems, and the lack of security controls such as up-to-date patches. Vulnerability scans are passive and have little impact on a system during a test. In contrast, a penetration test is intrusive and can potentially compromise a system.
Features
OPEN PORTS.
Open ports can signal a vulnerability, especially if administrators aren’t actively managing the services associated with these ports.
DEFAULT ACCOUNTS AND PASSWORDS.
Operating systems and applications can have default usernames and passwords.
WEAK PASSWORDS.
Many scanners include a password cracker that can discover weak passwords or verify that users are creating strong passwords in compliance with an organization’s policy.
SENSITIVE DATA.
Some scanners include data loss prevention (DLP) techniques to detect sensitive data sent over the network.