Play nice with the network
Running a full vulnerability scan of ports 1 through 65,535 on 3,000 Windows boxes simultaneously is going to clog your network's arteries and give you the heart attack. For some reason, other vulerability assessment vendors don't seem to understand the need to throttle scanning activity to match the capabilities of your infrastructure, and the horror stories of VA activity bringing down firewalls are the industry's dirty little secret. Not so with VAM.

VAM gives you direct, fine-grained control of how and when scans run on the network, allowing you to throttle the speed and depth of scanning. You have direct control over a dozen performance parameters can be set and edited in the VAM GUI. Configurable parameters include:

• The number of concurrent port and vulnerability scans
• Scan timeout: set it to match your network latency
• Device discovery scan depth (7 configurable phases)
• Simultaneous rule execution controls
• OS detection scanning depth contols
• Test optimization to balance scan time and accuracy
• Device login for deeper scanning
• Host scan knowledge database for faster, lighter repeat scanning