Distributed Scan Model for Enterprise-Wide Network Vulnerability Assessment

Conducting an Enterprise-wide Vulnerability Assessment (VA) on a regular basis, as required risk management, is an extremely time-consuming task for security professionals. Enterprise networks are usually widely distributed, located in different places, towns and even counties. A structure of the network is very complex and is separated into different types of zones, sometimes with highly restricted physical access. The average number of hosts in a network is sometimes estimated at thousands or tens of thousands. Security administrators cannot accommodate a growing number of requests for network assessment. They are looking for new ideas, news approaches and news tools for Enterprise Vulnerability Assessment. Traditional approaches are not allowed anymore to perform real-time network assessment and real-time statistical risk analysis of security posture of an enterprise. New 3rd generation scanning tools implement a client/server solution with centralized console to manage remote scanning agents, making it easy to conduct scans on a regular basis and quickly report vulnerabilities.