Scanning

This topic describes the differences between how and what you can scan in and .

allows you to scan your environment for vulnerabilities. Unlike and , is hosted in the cloud, and allows you to scan remotely with your scanners and , or with 's cloud scanners if you want to scan assets from an external network.

Most of the scan templates are meant to create assessment scans: scans that find vulnerabilities on your assets. However, some of the scan templates, such as Host Discovery, allow you to create discovery scans: scans that find assets on your network.

For more information, see Scanning Overview in the User Guide.

You can perform two types of scans using products: discovery scans and assessment scans. recommends performing discovery scans to get an accurate picture of the assets on your network and assessment scans to understand the vulnerabilities on your assets.

For more information, see Scanning Overview in the User Guide.