148 Vulnerability ManageMent
not uncommon and is currently not well-addressed by the
products available.
For all scheduling of assessments, the date and time param-•
eters should be adjusted for local time zone. ere are varying
methods of implementation; however, the result should be that
if an assessment is supposed to start at 10:00 a.m. on Monday
in New York, the same parameter applied to San Francisco
would be 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time or 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
is becomes even more critical for large, globally distributed
environments. I have seen systems perform all scheduling to
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to accommodate defi-
ciencies in local scheduling capabilities. Assuming the network
is in the same time zone, a very good appr ...