The Cortex Network Scanner is a powerful application designed to identify and analyze devices, services, and vulnerabilities in your internal network.
What is Cortex Network Scanner?
The Cortex Network Scanner, a key component of the Exposure Management portfolio, is a robust tool for internal network vulnerability assessment. The scanner efficiently identifies live hosts and vulnerabilities using various methods, including remote and authenticated local checks. Distributed as a Broker VM applet, it integrates seamlessly into your existing infrastructure.
Cortex Network Scanner provides the following key capabilities:
Asset discovery
Cortex Network Scanner identifies responsive hosts within a specified IP range, covering both on-premises and cloud-hosted assets.
Vulnerability scanning
Cortex Network Scanner supports authenticated and non-authenticated scanning:
Non-authenticated scans use various vulnerability tests to detect vulnerabilities in the target system based on system responses without requiring credentials, including sending tailored packets to target hosts.
Authenticated scans use the supplied credentials to authenticate into a target host and identify vulnerabilities by performing deeper tests, including detailed software enumeration and service detection.
Customizable and targeted scanning options
Select from different scan profiles for quick turnaround or deeper assessments.
Specify different network configurations to adapt to different environments, such as alive test methods, ports to scan, schedules, and performance settings.
Scan for specific vulnerabilities quickly across your asset inventory.
Multi-scanner support to distribute scan loads across multiple scanners
Reduce the amount of time it takes to complete large network scans by assigning multiple scanners to the task.
Integration with the Cortex XDR inventory and vulnerability management
Scan results are seamlessly integrated into the inventory and vulnerability management views in Cortex XDR, providing a centralized view of all discovered assets, vulnerabilities, and issues.
Credential test scans
Check the credentials for service accounts before launching full-scale authenticated scan.