Chapter 8

Vulnerability Scanning

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

images Understand what vulnerability scanning is

images Know how to use several vulnerability scanning tools

images Conduct web vulnerability scanning

images Conduct network vulnerability scanning

The first and most important thing ...

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