Is AVDS a hardware or software solution?
It is a hardware appliance solution and it consists of two components: The Information Server (“IS”), and the Local Security Scanner (“LSS”). The IS appliance is responsible for storing the scanned results obtained from various scans, generating consolidated reports and controlling access to reports. It is also used to control and manage all the associated LSS servers via a web interface. The IS appliance can be configured to allow multiple users to connect to the system and to read scan reports, or to schedule scan jobs. The LSS appliance is responsible for performing vulnerability scans across a segment of the network network of up to 2,500 nodes. Based on the daily vulnerability database update, the LSS is capable of performing up-to-date vulnerability checks on all IP-based systems it is scanning.
