All leading industry standards emphasize the importance of using various techniques and tools for vulnerability scanning to achieve sufficient coverage and depth. For example, CIS Control (v8) 7.5 states that organizations must perform both authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability scans of internal enterprise assets on a quarterly – or more frequent – basis. Furthermore, they stress the importance of having a solution that can update its vulnerability database according to the latest publications.
Unauthenticated Vulnerability Scan | Authenticated Vulnerability Scan | |
---|---|---|
Endpoint systems | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | Microsoft Defender for Endpoint | CrowdStrike | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | McAfee Endpoint Security | CrowdStrike |
Applications | Netsparker | Acunetix | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | Acunetix | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 |
Database systems | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | Qualys | Imperva | IBM Guardium | McAfee Database Security |
Host systems | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 |
Storage systems | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | StorageGuard |
Backup systems | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | StorageGuard |
Learn why vulnerability detection is crucial, the challenges organizations face, and how specialized tools like StorageGuard can help protect your critical data.
Storage and backup systems house critical organizational data, making them prime targets for cyber threats. Implementing robust vulnerability detection practices is essential to safeguard against potential breaches and ensure compliance with industry regulations.
Organizations often encounter challenges such as the complexity of diverse systems, lack of storage-specific security expertise, reliance on manual processes, and adapting to evolving cyber threats.
Organizations can use a specific storage & backup vulnerability scanner to detect CVEs (common vulnerabilities and exposures). Authenticated scans, in particular, provide deeper insights by leveraging storage-specific commands and APIs. Utilizing specialized tools like StorageGuard can automate this process, ensuring comprehensive coverage and up-to-date vulnerability assessments.
StorageGuard performs authenticated vulnerability scans tailored to storage, backup and data protection systems from all enterprise vendors. It includes a comprehensive, regularly updated vulnerability catalog and detection plugins for security advisories, alerts, and CVE vulnerabilities, ensuring thorough and up-to-date assessments.
By leveraging StorageGuard, organizations can automate the detection of vulnerabilities in their storage and backup systems, enhancing their security posture and ensuring compliance with industry standards
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