Patent 11803646 was granted and assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on October, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Aspects of vulnerability scanning are disclosed. In one example, configuration and context information of a first device for which vulnerability scanning is to be performed is obtained. The configuration information includes telemetry data of the first device. A second device is provisioned based on the configuration information to create a cloned first device. The vulnerability scanning is performed on the cloned first device based on the context information to obtain a scan report.