Vulnerability management for your remote workforce using ThreatWorx
In an earlier blog article, we had a look at the challenges that organizations are facing with vulnerability management (VM) for their remote workforce. We briefly described what a Next Generation Vulnerability Management solution should look like for these scenarios. To summarize a Next Generation VM needs to be a cloud-based service which can provide […]
Host discovery using twigs
As described in the earlier blog article – Getting started with twigs, one of the discovery modes supported by twigs is host discovery. In the host discovery mode, twigs will collect required metadata from the host to perform no-scan vulnerability assessments. The host discovery mode supports local and remote discovery. Local refers to discovery of the […]
Getting started with ‘twigs’
Introduction The bedrock of asset discovery in ThreatWatch is ‘twigs’ (short for ThreatWatch Inventory Gathering Script). twigs is a python based open source utility script maintained by ThreatWatch. twigs aims to provide a simple extensible interface to all types of assets and asset management systems in order to discover the metadata required by ThreatWatch to […]