Why the Right Metrics Matter When it Comes to Vulnerability Management

How's your vulnerability management program doing? Is it effective? A success? Let's be honest, without the right metrics or analytics, how can you tell how well you're doing, progressing, or if you're getting ROI? If you're not measuring, how do you know it's working? And even if you are...

Beyond Asset Discovery: How Attack Surface Management Prioritizes Vulnerability Remediation

As the business environment becomes increasingly connected, organizations' attack surfaces continue to expand, making it challenging to map and secure both known and unknown assets. In particular, unknown assets present security challenges related to shadow IT, misconfigurations, ineffective scan...

Target Credential Status by Authentication Protocol - Valid Credentials Provided

Nessus was able to determine that valid credentials were provided for an authentication protocol available on the remote target because it was able to successfully authenticate directly to the remote target using that authentication protocol at least once. Authentication was successful because th...

Target Credential Issues by Authentication Protocol - No Issues Found

Valid credentials were provided for an authentication protocol on the remote target and Nessus did not log any subsequent errors or failures for the authentication protocol. When possible, Nessus tracks errors or failures related to otherwise valid credentials in order to highlight issues that ma...

Target Credential Status by Authentication Protocol - Failure for Provided Credentials

Nessus failed to successfully authenticate directly to the remote target on an available authentication protocol. Nessus was able to connect to the remote port and identify that the service running on the port supports an authentication protocol, but Nessus failed to authenticate to the remote...