Patent ID: 11916950
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A system for coordinating a distributed vulnerability network scan, comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor and the at least one memory configured to:
send, by a computing node, a check-in message to a scanning coordinator, the check-in message indicating attributes of the computing node;
determine, by the scanning coordinator, scan timing information for the computing node or a list of scanning targets for the computing node based on the attributes of the computing node;
receive, by the computing node, a scan configuration message from the scanning coordinator, the scan configuration message comprising:
the scan timing information for the computing node; and
the list of scanning targets for the computing node;

determine, by the computing node, a scanning time window based on the scan timing information for the computing node; and
scan, by the computing node, one or more scanning targets in the list of scanning targets for the computing node during the scanning time window.