http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/52/prior_art/list According to some embodiments, a system and a method is provided to dynamically scan a network with a first network scanner and a second network scanner and to determine a new network address, wherein the new network address is discovered by the first network scanner and not discovered by the second network scanner. en-us Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: 6324656<br/>Description: The reference describes a method for vulnerability assessment in a network. The method includes pinging devices to discover devices within the network. Subsequently, port scans are performed on the discovered devices and banners are collected and the information from the collected banners is stored as entries in a first database. An analysis of the entries is performed to determine potential vulnerabilities. The results of the analysis are stored in a second database. Note that the first database and the second database are coupled to the same NVA engine (The NVA engine corresponds to network scanner in ‘363). Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:28:50 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/161/detail Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: 7,181,769<br/>Description: The reference describes a system and method for providing distributed security of a network. The system includes several device profilers (corresponding to network scanners claimed in ‘363), which are placed at different locations of a network to assess vulnerabilities. Each device profiler identifies the hosts on the network, and characteristics such as operating system and applications running on the hosts. The system includes a centralized correlation server, which stores the determined vulnerabilities of the network. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:30:38 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/151/detail Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: US20030204632<br/>Description: The patent publication discloses a network security system having the functionalities of network discovery, vulnarability assessment, and intrusion detection. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:35:44 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/146/detail Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: 20050125518 <br/>Description: A method for discovering a network comprising network devices by dividing the network into zones of network devices, and identifying the devices in zones to collect data of devices to form a topology of the network. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:46:28 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/144/detail Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: 20070171842 <br/>Description: The prior art reference discloses methods and systems for discovery of network nodes in subnets of the network by means of network scanning agents which discover the network address and add addresses to a scan server.The scan server communicates the network addresses to other scanning agents. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:16:49 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/142/detail Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: 5185860 <br/>Description: The prior art reference relates to automatic discovery of new nodes connected to a network by using network probes. The addresses of the discovered nodes are stored in a listed database for sharing among other probes. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:11:51 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/139/detail Computer compliance system and method Patent/Application #: 20060070129<br/>Description: The reference describes a system for enhancing the compliance of clients in a network. In an embodiment, security sensor data from intrusion detection system (IDS) sensors, vulnerability assessment (VA) sensors, and/or other security sensors is stored in a database. Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:42:21 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/129/detail