Practical Vulnerability Management

12AUTOMATING SCANS AND REPORTING

You’ve now created scripts to scan your network, inserted the results into your database, and generated simple reports from the resulting data. If you wanted to, you could run all those scripts manually every time you needed fresh information about your organization’s vulnerability posture. But why do that when you can write another script to do the work for you? In this chapter, we’ll automate this process using a bash script called ­automation.sh.

Automation might sound complicated, but a simple automation script just executes other scripts, one after the other, as in Listing 12-1, and is scheduled to run on ...