This is the first of what will be a series of posts about vulnerability scanning. This particular post will be fairly generalized, but the next two to three posts to follow will be more in depth.
Vulnerability scanning is something that every organization should do. It can drastically help improve an organizations security posture. There are many different ways that a vulnerability scanner can help your organization to build secure systems, validate maintenance and patching of existing systems, and in some cases ensure legal compliance. In any case it is important to make sure that scans are being run with administrative privileges.
