To be able to run a policy scan you need to set up a policy scanning profile and this needs to be an authenticated profile, here’s how you do it:
- Login to Security Center
- Click on Scan Profiles
- Click on +Create scan profile > Policy profile
- Under the headline General settings enter the following:
Name: the name of the report, e.g. Monthly executive WAS report template
Owner: the owner of the report - Under the headline Policy > Choose your desired template
- Under the headline Authentication you can add a new authentication record or chose an existing for Windows and Linux/Unix. Notice that you can only have one authentication record per profile and operating system.
- Linux/Unix authentication record
Authentication information
The authentication information will be the name you type in.
Name
Select a name.
Port
Type in if you want to use a certain port for your authentication, otherwise the standard port 22 will be used.
Choose if you want to authenticate with either username and password or by using a private key, type in your credentials and you are done. - Windows authentication record
Authentication information
The authentication information will be the name you type in.
Name
Select a name.
Type in your credentials you would like to use for your authenticated scan.
Read this for more information regarding authenticated network scans:
https://support.holmsecurity.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019811432-How-does-authenticated-networks-scans-work-
- Linux/Unix authentication record
- Done!
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