  Traditional vulnerability scanning methods are time-consuming and indecisive,
and they negatively affect network performance by generating high network
traffic. In this paper, we present a novel vulnerability scanner that is
time-efficient, simple, accurate, and safe. We call it a Calcium Vulnerability
Scanner (CVS). Our contribution to vulnerability scanning are the following:
(i) minimize its required time and network traffic: compared to current
technologies, we reduced the former by an average of 79% and the latter by
99.9%, (ii) increase its accuracy: compared to current technologies, we
improved this by an average of 2600%, and (iii) enable the scanner to learn
from previous scans in order to reduce future scanning time and enhance
accuracy: compared to current technologies, CVS reduced scanning time by an
average of 97%. CVS enables a new frontier in vulnerability scanning and allow
for scalable and efficient deployment of such tools in large-scale networks,
containers, edge computing, and cloud computing.
