Agent Scanning

Related Reading: Agent Use Cases (High Latency Networks, Mobile/Distributed Workforces, and Hardened Systems) and Large-Scale Deployment Considerations in the Tenable Agent Deployment and User Guide

Tenable Agents can increase the flexibility of your Tenable Security Center deployment since agent scanners are not limited by the same network architecture considerations as active scanners. Tenable Agents are also a good solution for high latency networks, unreachable networks, and hardened systems.

You can deploy Tenable Agents to communicate through an intermediary manager: Tenable Vulnerability Management (cloud-based) or Tenable Nessus Manager (on-premises). If you deploy large numbers of Tenable Agents, review the large-scale deployment considerations.