A Comparative Analysis of Detecting Vulnerability in Network Systems

Abstract

In the age of fast internet and global communication systems, computer security is a big challenges for any public or private organization. There exists many more threats to such organization and required some top level of security in the organization for securing company's critical information. Therefore each individual computer system is very important to secure them because a single system is responsible to compromise whole organizations network. To verify the security checks and strengthen the organizations network, a vulnerability assessment of the whole organizations network must be performed regularly. Vulnerability scanners are useful to discover security flaws within each individual system as well as whole network also. If already known security flaws are not fixed then an attacker might try to exploit vulnerability and gain information what they wants. This paper focuses on the different vulnerability scanners and their methods to discover various vulnerabilities available in the networks or remotely connected host system and make a comparative analysis on the bases of their ability to detect different flaws.