How Often Does Edgescan Update Their Scanning Technology?

Version Number: v1.0.2

Published Date: 1 Oct 2025

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Crawling & Discovery

• API crawling
  • Updates added bi-monthly.
• Single-page application crawling
  
  • Updates added bi-monthly.
• Web-application crawling
  • Updates added weekly.
• Authentication engine
  • Updates added quarterly.
  • This includes supporting new authentication mechanisms.

• EASM Investigations
  • New detections added quarterly.
  • WHO.IS database sync'd daily.
• EASM Discovery
  • New detections added quarterly.

Scanning

• Infrastructure/Network/Host scanning
  • Updates added daily.
  • This includes the addition of new checks such as CVE and middleware technology.
• Application scanning
  • Updates added weekly.
  • This includes the addition of new variables to existing checks.

• API scanning checks
  • Updates added weekly.
  • This includes the addition of new variables to existing checks.
• Mobile scanning checks
  • Updates added quarterly.

Reporting

• Risk scoring engine
  • Updates added quarterly.
  • Updates are daily if you are using EXF instead of traditional Risk/Severity/Threat.
  • Manual risk rating gets applied to all vulnerabilities that are detected during PTaaS. Updates are as soon as they are verified.