Patent 11115431 was granted and assigned to Rapid7 on September, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems for identifying a network vulnerability. The system may gather data regarding a new or previously unknown network device, and compare the gathered data to one or more known devices that are scanned by a vulnerability assessment device. The vulnerability assessment device may then scan the previously unknown device upon a processor determining the previously unknown device shares at least one feature with a known device that is scanned.