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Scanning Tools: How Many Do We Really Need?

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It seems like every other day there’s a “new” security scanner on the market that everyone is told they simply must have in order to ensure the security of their systems. Why do we have so many different types of scanners? Is there another way? Randy Nash shares his opinion.

As Internet-based technology evolves, more work than ever is being done on the Web. More types of services and information are being served up, and in more ways ever imagined by the original founders of the Internet. Years ago a website consisted primarily of some data served up via either static Web pages or some dynamic pages that would pull data from some sort of repository. You had HTML, some JavaScript, and maybe some Perl on the back end to make things easier. That world is long gone.

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