Vulnerability Scanning Best Practices for 2026
Periodic vulnerability scans are no longer a reliable security program for hybrid environments. NIST's guidance treats scanning as a recurring, risk-based control that should account for changing vulnerabilities, historical results, authenticated coverage, and correlations between findings over time (NIST vulnerability-scanning guidance). Industry practice is moving in the same direction. In the 2023 data summarized by Bromium, 35% of organizations scanned...
