If you’ve ever got stuck while trying to wrap your head around the differences between penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, read through to get the perfect breakdown. Many IT security terms ...

Vulnerability scanners can help an enterprise's IT staff identify weaknesses throughout its network, such as ports that could be accessed by unauthorized users and software lacking the latest security ...

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 ...

Discover the best open-source vulnerability scanners of 2026 that help CIOs minimize security costs while ensuring robust protection against software vulnerabilities. Learn about their features and ...

Authenticated vulnerability scanning breaks on OAuth, MFA, and CAPTCHA. See how to hold a real session and test the surface ...

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 ...

In vulnerability assessment scanning, preparation and planning can make the difference between an accurate and illuminating scan and a big IT headache. Failure to account for and accommodate legacy ...

BOSTON — Nov. 6, 2023 — Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced its open source solution Trivy now supports vulnerability scanning for Kubernetes components in addition to ...

IT cannot secure what it doesn't acknowledge. If IT does not uncover some vulnerabilities during testing, they will go unaddressed until someone else finds the problems and exploits them. When an IT ...

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 ...