13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of heterogeneous information sources include at least one of a scanner, a camera, and manually entered data.
1. A network auditing method comprising: retrieving network information gathered by a plurality of heterogeneous information sources; identifying a network policy to be applied to the retrieved information, utilizing a policy and vulnerability engine; identifying semantic equivalencies in the information gathered by the plurality of heterogeneous information sources, utilizing the policy and vulnerability engine; uniformly applying the network policy to the information identified as being semantically equivalent, utilizing the policy and vulnerability engine; determining compliance with the network policy, utilizing the policy and vulnerability engine; and making a recommendation for modifying a network feature based on the compliance determination, utilizing the policy and vulnerability engine; wherein the identifying semantic equivalencies comprises: identifying a list of facts gathered by each information source; identifying for each fact on the list one or more equivalent facts gathered by each of the other information sources; and storing the semantic equivalences; wherein the recommendation is a list of network policy rules to include in the network policy; wherein the network policy rules are ranked based on a number of times that a network policy rule was applied, a severity meter set for the network policy rule, and assets that are affected; wherein an identifier is used for generating the network policy rule independently of a source type.