At 2 a.m., a routine vuln scan made our smart fridge loop its boot chime like it was DJing the SOC; hilarious, but also a solid reminder to fence IoT on its own VLAN, rate-limit tests, and kill weak defaults before an attacker does… What’s your most ridiculous but harmless test outcome that still drove home that prevention beats cleanup?
Had a UDP sweep turn our smart lights into a rave — almost as bad as your “DJing the SOC” at 2 a.m., … These days I throttle scanners (nmap --max-rate 100 --scan-delay 50ms) and stick IoT in a maintenance VLAN with ACLs that drop mDNS/UPnP during tests; small caveat: Safe Checks in Nessus can miss a few noisy findings but it beats waking the building: Timing and Performance | Nmap Network Scanning. Anyone else gate scans behind a change window for IoT?
Your DJ fridge at ‘2 a.m.’ reminded me: segregate IoT VLANs and block mDNS/SSDP; curious if you rate-limit Nessus too.