Excerpted from "Scanning Reality: Limits of Automated Vulnerability Scanners," a new report posted today in Dark Reading's Vulnerability Management Tech Center. In some enterprises, the term ...

Vulnerability scanners are automated tools that allow organizations to check if their networks, systems and applications have security weaknesses that could expose them to attacks. Vulnerability ...

An industry effort to integrate Web application firewalls (WAFs) with vulnerability scanning tools never got off the ground when it was first launched five years ago, but today the idea of blending ...

Vulnerability scanning is a staple of information security, but no software is perfect. Vulnerabilities are discovered on a daily basis — possibly exposing critical systems or data to exploit and ...

Vulnerability scanners can help an enterprise's IT staff identify weaknesses throughout its network, such as ports that could be accessed by unauthorized users and software lacking the latest security ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Quick Summary Struggling to keep track of security gaps across your systems and applications? Discover the top seven vulnerability scanning tools of 2025 that can help you identify, prioritise, and ...

These 5 tools can help automate the detection and remediation of vulnerabilities, they're available at no cost, and some are upgradeable to more fully featured platforms. Though you may know and ...

Vulnerability Scanning vs Penetration Testing: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent Many IT security terms have proved challenging to understand due to their similarities and contextual ...

There are two approaches to network vulnerability scanning, active and passive. The active approach encompasses everything an organization does to foil system breaches, while the passive (or ...