Enterprise Scanning
Introduction
Enterprise vulnerability scanning is quite complicated, and as such requires a certain amount of planning, preparation, and adjustment. The key factors for effectively scanning the enterprise for security vulnerabilities are easy administration, periodic scanning, and accurate results.
There is no trivial way to take a scanner such as Nessus and use it to scan the entire enterprise network. Simply pointing it toward the network and scanning will not be enough. This chapter shows some of the caveats that make this process difficult. ...
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