Scans

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Overview

The Scans page is where your Attack Surface Management (ASM) journey begins.
It allows security teams to initiate discovery scans, track their progress, and monitor how your external footprint evolves over time. Each scan performs deep reconnaissance across multiple sources — DNS, IP ranges, certificate transparency logs, and third-party datasets — to uncover every publicly accessible asset related to your organization.

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Overview

The Scans page presents a dashboard view and a list of executed scans, providing full visibility into the discovery process and historical changes in your attack surface. Key Highlights:

• Track discovery trends over time.
• View each scan’s status, progress, and execution date.
• Measure growth or reduction in total detected assets.
• Identify newly added or removed assets since the last scan.

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Asset Discovery Trend

At the top of the page, a dynamic graph visualizes the total number of assets detected over time. This graph helps you:

• See how your attack surface expands or contracts across scans.
• Evaluate the impact of remediation actions.
• Identify unusual spikes that may indicate new deployments or shadow infrastructure.

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Scan List

Each scan entry represents a complete discovery cycle for a specific domain or root organization. Status indicators:

• 🟢 Completed — Scan successfully finished and results are available.
• 🔵 Running — Scan is in progress; assets are still being discovered.
• 🔴 Failed — Scan could not be executed (connectivity or configuration issues).

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Creating a New Scan

To initiate a new scan, click “Create Scan” at the top right of the page.
A modal will appear, prompting you to enter the root domain or target organization. Once created:

• The scan automatically begins enumerating all related subdomains, IPs, certificates, and technologies.
• Progress updates in real time under the Running state.
• Upon completion, newly detected assets are added to the Asset Catalog.

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How Scans Work

Each scan performs a multi-layered discovery process, combining:

1. Passive Discovery — certificate transparency logs, WHOIS data, ASN mappings, public datasets.
2. Active Enumeration — DNS brute-forcing, subdomain resolvers, and HTTP fingerprinting.
3. Asset Enrichment — correlating discovered items with IPs, ports, and technologies.
4. Exposure Detection — scanning for misconfigurations, open ports, and public access.

All discovered assets are automatically de-duplicated and enriched before being reflected in your Asset Catalog.

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Continuous Monitoring

By scheduling scans periodically, ASM enables continuous asset discovery.
This helps you stay ahead of emerging risks by:

• Detecting newly exposed assets in near real time.
• Tracking changes to existing infrastructure.
• Monitoring for re-emergence of deprecated systems.
• Quantifying the impact of remediation and hardening efforts.

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Best Practices

• 🕒 Run scans regularly — weekly or monthly to maintain up-to-date visibility.
• 🎯 Scope scans smartly — include all known domains and third-party integrations.
• 🔁 Correlate results — review detected assets under the Asset Catalog for validation.
• 📈 Monitor trends — use the asset detection graph to assess ROI of remediation efforts.

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Value to Security Teams

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