Patent ID: 11930031
Assignee: TENABLE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method for passively scanning a network, the method comprising:
obtaining information that is detected based on network traffic traveling to and/or from an endpoint device that is sniffed by an endpoint passive scanner deployed on the endpoint device, the network traffic comprising a plurality of packets;
discovering one or more assets of the network and/or identifying one or more vulnerabilities in one or more network entities and/or one or more services based on the obtained information; and
performing, by an endpoint agent running on the endpoint device, a vulnerability scan of the endpoint device,
wherein the endpoint passive scanner is deployed as a passive scan library linked to the endpoint agent running on the endpoint device, and
wherein the endpoint passive scanner is configured to run when the endpoint agent calls the passive scan library.