Continuous Vulnerability Scanning
Continuous scanning without the noise. Proactive protection from emerging threats. Intelligent results prioritized by business context.
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What is continuous vulnerability scanning?
A continuous vulnerability scanning tool provides 24/7 monitoring of your IT environment, which means issues can be found and fixed faster, closing the door on hackers and potential breaches. Continuous scanning doesn’t mean constant scanning, which can produce an overwhelming amount of alerts, triggers, and false positives that are challenging to manage effectively. Intruder’s continuous scanner gets round this problem by kicking off a vulnerability scan when a network change is detected or a new external IP address or hostname is spun up in your cloud accounts. This means your vulnerability scans won’t overload your team or your systems but will minimize the window of opportunity for hackers.
How to continuously scan your systems with Intruder
1
Sign up for an account
Once your account is activated, you can start scanning your systems.
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Add your targets
Start scanning with just a domain name or IP address. Or, set up a cloud integration to pull targets automatically.
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Get the results
Review vulnerabilities prioritized by severity and see what’s exposed to the internet.
Continuous vulnerability scanning made easy
Continuously scan your infrastructure, web apps and APIs all in one platform. Intruder monitors your network daily, kicking off scans when new targets are discovered. Integrate Intruder with your cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) to continuously scan newly deployed services. Use import rules to only include and scan the assets you need.
Proactive protection from emerging threats
Intruder proactively scans your systems for emerging threats, notifying you as soon as new vulnerabilities are discovered. Rapid Response automatically checks for the latest issues being exploited in the wild before automated scanners can.
Fix the issues that make you most vulnerable
Intruder filters out the noise and intelligently prioritizes your results by business context. Receive remediation advice, measure your cyber hygiene, and track how long it takes to fix issues. Get alerts via Slack, Teams, and email to ensure you never miss an important notification.
Close the door on hackers
Your network is constantly changing and keeping on top of what is and isn't exposed to the internet, as well as what is exposed and shouldn't be, is like a full-time job. External network monitoring with Intruder gives you continuous visibility of your perimeter and puts you in control of your attack surface.
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With a fresh CVE created every 20 minutes, you run the risk of having an outdated view of your security at any given moment.
In addition, developers and IT teams can often deploy new code or make changes on a daily basis. With attackers constantly scanning the internet constantly looking for weaknesses that could allow them in, only continuous scanning can hope to alert you in time.
Most companies don't have time to keep on top of all this. IT managers have a million other things to do, and even well-resourced security teams can be kept busy with tracking remediation activity, providing management reports, responding to incidents, providing advice to the business, and all the other work that security teams do. That’s why Intruder focuses on providing continuous vulnerability assessments with no noise, only actionable security results.
Intruder’s continuous vulnerability assessment tool covers internal vulnerability scanning, external vulnerability scanning, and application vulnerability scanning (including web apps, APIs, and SPAs), and checks for 140,000+ infrastructure weaknesses and 75+ application vulnerabilities. Learn more about what checks we run.
Intruder continuously monitors your network, giving you peace of mind and ensuring your network view is always accurate. As soon as you add a target to the platform, Intruder will initiate the first scan. Once that scan is complete, subsequent scans will be automatically scheduled at regular intervals. Learn more.
When you integrate Intruder with your AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform accounts, it will automatically add new external IP addresses or hostnames as targets. You can enable Intruder to automatically scan new targets as they are added, and create rules to control what’s imported. Head to our help article to learn more.
When a new vulnerability is discovered in software deployed on your perimeter, Intruder scans your systems and alerts you to newly discovered vulnerabilities automatically. This kind of proactive action is essential for businesses that don’t have processes in place to research the latest threats and manually run scans for them. Learn more.
Intruder’s Rapid Response is manually carried out by our security team to check for the latest critical weaknesses hitting the news, including some that our scanners don't have checks for yet or ones that are better detected by a person.
When a threat is identified, we'll scan your systems and notify you if we suspect that any could be affected. We will also send you an advisory with further details and recommendations.
This depends on which compliance you’re looking for! While SOC 2 and ISO 27001 give you some wiggle room, HIPAA, PCI DSS and GDPR explicitly state scanning frequency, from quarterly to once a year. But using these standards to determine the right time and frequency for vulnerability scanning might not be right for your business. And doing so will increase your exposure to security risks due to the rapidly changing security landscape. That’s why continuous scanning is the best approach to staying protected.
A continuous vulnerability management process consists of finding, prioritizing, remediating, and monitoring vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about how you can build a continuous vulnerability management program.
