Scanning

This topic describes the differences between how and what you can scan in Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tenable Security Center.

Tenable Vulnerability Management

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

Most of the Tenable Vulnerability Management 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 Tenable Vulnerability Management User Guide.

Tenable Security Center

You can perform two types of scans using Tenable products: discovery scans and assessment scans. Tenable 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 Tenable Security Center User Guide.