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 ...

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 ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. During a penetration test (or pen test), highly skilled cybersecurity professionals assume ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Derek Rice is a freelance writer and content developer who lives in Kennebunk, Maine. Government agencies are among those organizations actively scanning and assessing cybersecurity vulnerabilities ...

API vulnerability scanning and API penetration testing are both important methods for ensuring the security of an API, but they have distinct differences in terms of their scope, methodology and ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

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 ...

If you care about cybersecurity where your computer network is concerned, then you will want to learn more about Network Scanning because this can aid in the protection of your network. Bear in mind ...