Tony Huffman, Vulnerability Scanning, how it works and why

A vulnerability comes out and you need to know if you are vulnerableso you open up your vulnerability scanner and scan your systems tounderstand what you need to patch but what is that scanner doing todetermine you are vulnerable. This talk will describe what thatvulnerability scanner is doing and how we at Tenable write local,remote, and malware checks. About the speaker: My name is Tony Huffman, I work at Tenable Network Security as a Sr.Reverse Engineer on the Threat Automation team. I have been working inthe the computer security for over 10 years doing research intomalware threat, exploit development, software development and more.