Episode 59: Agent-Based vs. Agentless Scanning
Should you deploy agents on every device, or scan remotely without them? In this episode, we compare agent-based and agentless vulnerability scanning approaches and explore their respective strengths, limitations, and use cases. You’ll learn how agents provide deep telemetry and offline scanning, while agentless approaches are easier to deploy at scale but may miss key system-level insights.
We also examine how hybrid approaches combine the best of both worlds, and what CySA+ expects you to know about choosing the right method in different environments. Whether you're scanning cloud instances, virtual machines, or legacy on-prem infrastructure, this episode will help you think critically about deployment trade-offs and data fidelity. Brought to you by BareMetalCyber.com
