Vulnerability management tools
In the following sections, we'll look at some individual vulnerability management tools and discuss some of their features and applications, starting with the Intruder tool.
Intruder
This tool addresses the growing need for security teams to scan for vulnerabilities on both on-premise and cloud platforms. The tool itself is cloud-based and can integrate with the leading cloud solution providers such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Since it is cloud-based, the tool is always running and thus does real-time external scans to ensure that an organization is not exposed to known weaknesses that can be exploited by attackers.
Intruder can scan computer networks, systems, and cloud apps and identify the flaws and send alerts to the IT security team to fix them.
The tool is perimeter-specific and keeps track of exposed ports and services on networks. It also scans for weaknesses in configurations that might impact the security...