Tenable Internship Takeaways: Understanding Different Port Scanning Techniques
by Noah Cutler on August 9, 2017
As a summer intern for the research and development department at Tenable, I was surprised when my manager gave me a relatively straightforward first task: find every machine in the lab. I knew that some form of port scan was needed. Maybe I could start with a ping sweep of some IP range, or maybe something more comprehensive. But my manager also added some nuance to the project.