Confused by agents? We've cleaned up our jargon ...
Summary: PortSwigger Research said it has removed the term "agent" from Burp Suite Enterprise Edition's user interface, website, and product documentation because the word was being used for three different things: the logical entities performing scans, the machines the scans run on, and the software installed on those machines. The term now remains only in previously existing license details and the Enterprise Edition API, which the company says it will revisit, and it will use "concurrent scans" and "scanning machines" instead.
Bottom line: The company's own admission is that one overloaded term blocked customers from understanding how Enterprise Edition scales, and the fix is incomplete: the API still carries the old wording, so anyone automating against it is still working from the confusing vocabulary.
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