Mcafee, Inc.

James Michael Hugard, Iv

Sven Schrecker

Robin Malcolm Keir

Ofir Arkin

Joshua Cajetan Rebelo

Braden Russell

Charles Mallabarapu

Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase

Zengjue Wu

Alexander Lawrence Leroux

Jorge Armando Muniz

A pluggable asset detection engine is used to identify devices within a network. The pluggable asset detection engine includes a set of pluggable discovery sensors and is adapted to identify particular address information of a particular computing device within a network, using a first pluggable discovery sensor in the set of discovery sensors, and send an identification of the particular address information of the particular computing device to an asset management system for inclusion of the particular address information in an asset repository managed by the asset management system.

Asset detection system

A system and method in one embodiment includes modules for creating a vulnerability set including one or more vulnerabilities, adding the vulnerability set to a program, and updating the program by adding a new vulnerability to the vulnerability set. More specific embodiments include a program that includes a scan, creating the vulnerability set by generating a query including one or more conditions associated with the vulnerabilities, and creating the vulnerability set by selecting one or more vulnerabilities from a plurality of vulnerabilities. Other embodiments include a program that includes a report template, adding a vulnerability set to the report template by generating a query to include a condition associated with the vulnerability set, running a scan, and generating a report including one or more results from the scan meeting the condition associated with the vulnerability set.

System and method for grouping computer vulnerabilities

Opportunistic scans can be performed by identifying, using at least one processing device, a detection of a particular computing device on a network of a computing environment. At least one scan to be performed on the detected particular computing device can be is identified and a particular scan engine, in a plurality of scan engines, is identified that is adapted to perform the at least one scan. The at least one scan is caused to be performed on the detected particular computing device while the detected particular computing device is on the network using the particular scan engine.

Opportunistic system scanning

A particular scan set to be performed on at least a portion of a computing environment is identified. A particular scan engine, in a plurality of scan engines, is identified that is adapted to perform at least one scan in the particular scan set, each scan engine in the plurality of scan engines adapted to perform one or more scans on one or more host devices in the computing environment. A request is sent to the particular scan engine to perform the at least one scan in the particular scan set and scan result data is received from the particular scan engine corresponding to the at least one scan in the particular scan set.

Unified scan management

A system and method in one embodiment includes modules for creating an asset tag including one or more conditions of an asset on a network, adding the asset tag to an asset report template, and generating an asset report from the asset report template. More specific embodiments include creating the asset tag by generating a query for the one or more conditions. The asset tag may include a second asset tag configured to be updated automatically, and a third asset tag configured to be updated manually, and the second asset tag may be updated automatically when the asset tag is updated. Other embodiments include creating a vulnerability set including a selection of vulnerabilities from a plurality of vulnerabilities, adding the vulnerability set to the asset report template, and scanning a plurality of assets on the network.

A first Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) address of a particular computing device within a network is identified using a first passive discovery sensor performing a first discovery task. A second discovery task is caused to be performed using the first IPv6 address and an attribute of the particular computing device is identified from results of the second discovery task. The first IPv6 address and attribute of the particular device is added to a repository maintaining a record of detected IPv6 addresses within the network. In some instances, a first passive discovery sensor can be one of an event-based discovery sensor, a latent-type discovery sensor, and an indirect-type discovery sensor.

Network address repository management

A plurality of system entities described in an asset repository are identified, the asset repository defining a particular hierarchical organization of the plurality of system entities within a computing environment. A particular system entity in the plurality of system entities is tagged with a particular tag. The particular system entity is associated with a particular security policy based on the particular system entity being tagged with the particular tag. The particular security policy is applied to system entities in the asset repository tagged with one or more tags in a particular set of tags including the particular tag.

System asset repository management

A scan engine receives a request to perform a particular scan on at least a portion of a computing environment. The scan engine identifies a particular language interpreter in a set of available language interpreters for use in performing the particular scan and performs the particular scan using the particular language interpreter. The scan engine returns results of the particular scan. In some implementations, the scan engine is implemented on an agent enabling communication between the scan engine and an asset management system.

Unified scan engine

A method in one embodiment includes identifying a set of known vulnerabilities and a set of new vulnerabilities in an asset, selecting one or more scripts that include checks for vulnerabilities in a union of the set of known vulnerabilities and the set of new vulnerabilities, and using the selected scripts to scan the asset. Known vulnerabilities and new vulnerabilities may be identified by accessing results of previous scans on the asset. The method may also include identifying a plurality of assets to scan in a network, identifying a plurality of sets of known vulnerabilities and a plurality of sets of new vulnerabilities in substantially all assets in the plurality of assets, and inserting checks for vulnerabilities included in a union of the plurality of sets of known vulnerabilities and the plurality of sets of new vulnerabilities into the selected scripts.

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Mission Viejo, CA, United States of America

James Michael Hugard, Iv