External Scan - Now CyberCNS helps with deep external scan with an ability to customise the port selection.
At the Company Level, navigate to the External Scan to create your own profile.
Profiles
Users can create different profiles based on the requirement and attach them to assets to be scanned for external scans.
In the profile sections, you can create your own profiles and can add these profiles in the Configurations section.
There are three Default Profiles, those are
🔹 Quick Scan: This covers the top 1000 ports defined by IANA, which covers up to 65% risk profile.
🔸 Detailed Scan: This covers the top 3500 ports defined by IANA, which covers up to 94% risk profile.
🔹 Deep Scan: This will scan all 65535 ports, this can take 10 minutes to hours.
If you want to create your own Custom Profiles click on +Add.
In the profiles section, enter the Profile Name as required and select the Port Scan Type.
There are two types of Ports, those are Top Ports and Custom Ports.
Top Ports
In Top ports, you can choose the number of ports(100, 500, 1000, 3000, 5000, 10000, and 65535 ports) as required.
Choose the Protocols as required.
🔹 Sync
🔸 Connect
🔹 Xmas Scan
Choose the Service Detections as required and click on Save.
Once the profile is created successfully, you can either Edit or Delete the created profile in case required.
Configurations
When the profile is created, navigate to the Configurations section and click on +Add to add the External Scan Endpoints.
Select the Discovery Type as required.
🔹IP Range: Discovery Type selected as IP Range, then please provide Start IP and End IP of the range selected.
🔸Static IP: Discovery Type selected as Static IP, then need to provide a single IP address to scan.
🔹Domain Name: Discovery Type, selected as Domain Name, then need to provide a Domain Name.
The created profile can be chosen here if required, if not can select the Scan profile.
Enter the secure ports for the required IP address.
To enter multiple ports, press the enter key or enter a comma before adding the next port.
Once all the details are provided, click on Save.
Can select the checkbox in case need to exclude the IP from scanning.
To start the scan, select the checkbox to Scan the added IP and then click on Scan Now under Global Actions, or under the Action select the option as Scan Now.
There is an option to Edit or Delete the Discovery Type using the Action column. Any Discovery Type can be edited or deleted if needed.
Jobs
All the jobs for the external scan will be shown in the Jobs tab. This will list all jobs which were initiated and with their status.
When the scan begins, navigate to the Jobs section to check the Job Completion.
Results
All the Results for the external scan are shown in the Results tab.
Once the scan is completed, navigate to the Results section, to view the details of the added IP.
For the added IP can get the details based on the Selected profile.
Information such as Ports Scan, Protocol Scan, Service Detections, OverAll Grade, Open Ports, Vulnerabilities, and Operating System Details will be displayed.
Custom Ports
For custom ports, enter multiple ports of your own by adding commas. Choose the Protocols as required from below:
🔹 Sync
🔸 Connect
🔹 Xmas Scan
Choose the Service Detections as required and click on Save.
Select the Discovery Type as required and the created profile can be chosen here if required, if not can select the Scan profile.
Once all the details are provided, click on Save.
In case of exclusion of certain IP/IPs from scanning, select the checkbox of “Exclude from scanning”.
To start the scan, select the checkbox for the added IP and use Global Actions OR under the Action column select the option to Scan Now.
There is an option to Edit or Delete the Discovery Type using the Action column. Any Discovery Type can be edited or deleted if needed.
All the jobs for the external scan will be shown in the Jobs tab. The list of jobs which are initiated are shown with their status.
When the scan begins, navigate to the Jobs section to check the Job Completion.
All the Results for the external scan will be shown in the Results tab.
Once the scan is completed, navigate to the Results section, to view the details of the added IP.
For the added IP can get the details based on the Selected profile.
Overall Grade, Open Ports, Vulnerabilities, Operating System Details, Common SSL Vulnerabilities, and Certificate details will be displayed.
Click View Details under the Vulnerabilities section to get more information about the vulnerabilities.
This completes the documentation of External Scan.