After logging in, the first thing you'll want to do is tell us where your systems are. Simply head to the targets page, click the Add Targets button and add the assets you wish to scan. You can choose from:

You can also control which targets you wish for licences to be assigned to by taking a look at our Managing Your Licences article.

You can also add API schemas and authentication to web applications that you wish to scan. For example, if you want to scan behind the login page, you'll need to add authentication to the target. Instructions on how to do that can be found in the Authentication User Guide.

Whilst adding targets of the External web application type, you can add an authentication method or an API Schema.

You can also add authentication to a pre-existing target - from the Targets page, click on the desired Target to view its detail page.

From here, you can click on the Authentications tab and add your credentials to run authenticated scans against this target. You can also click on the APIs tab and add your API Schema to improve your scanning results.

You can keep your targets organised by adding tags and managing these tags from the tag management page.

Scans can take anything from 15 minutes to a few hours to a day or so for web app scans, but if they're running any longer, you might want to check out this help article.

You can also define the Scan Priority that you wish for all scans to use. This is configured on the scan settings page (accessible via Account > Settings > Scans) - you can read more about this here.

It is also possible to specify the IP Ranges from which you'd like a scan to run. You can do this from the scan settings tab - accessible via Account > Settings > Scans.

You can read more about our Scanner IPs here.

You can cancel a scan at any time from the Scans Page.

You can also start a new scan whenever you want, by using the Scan Now feature.

From the Scans Page, you can view all of the different types of scan that have been run on your account - One-off scans, Scheduled scans, New service scans (premium only), Cloud sync scans and Remediation scans:
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We run monthly scheduled scans for all Intruder customers looking for the types of weaknesses that hackers could exploit. Your first scan is usually the day after you begin your subscription, and starts at midnight (in your local timezone).

You can edit your monthly scheduled scan day and time to whatever suits you best or, if you're on our Pro, Premium or Vanguard plan, create multiple scheduled scans to run against whatever tag(s) or target(s) you like.

Scheduled Scans can run Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly (or Daily on our Premium or Vanugard Plans). You can find more details on Scheduled Scans here.

When any of your scans finish, you'll receive a notification and can log in to view the results and download a report. You can find a list of the issues we found on the Issues page. You can view more details by clicking on the issue or the occurrence, which will populate the section on the right with further information.

Once your first scan has been completed, you can access and search the full list of external checks we perform by clicking on the checks section of your dashboard, or visiting https://portal.intruder.io/checks.
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When scanning your systems using automated vulnerability scanners, these scanning engines will sometimes identify issues that are false positives. Similarly, your business might be fine with accepting the risk of an issue, or not see it as a problem because you have added mitigating controls. You can snooze these issues, removing them from the current issues section in the portal and in your reports.

Once you have a few scans under your belt, you will be able to view your account analytics which provides insight into your scans including issues and emerging threats.
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Once your first scan has been completed, you can choose to download a PDF or CSV report which can then be used for compliance purposes. For full details on downloading a report, take a look at the How do I download a report? article.
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The Intruder platform integrates with the most commonly used Cloud Platforms platforms including AWS, GCP and Azure. As mentioned above, this allows the syncing of assets from your AWS accounts (or AWS organisation on our Premium plan), GCP accounts and Azure accounts.

We also provide integrations with several Issue Tracking tools including Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jira and ServiceNow. Integrating with these platforms will allow you to send your issues directly to these platforms to allow you to seamlessly create issues on these platforms from Intruder, either automatically or manually.

To make the compliance process as easy as possible, we integrate with two common compliance platforms - Drata and Vanta. You can then send scan evidence straight across to these platforms either automatically or manually from the Scans page.

You can read more about these integrations here:

Check out our help pages on what our scans test you for, what scanning engine we use, how to add additional users and how the licensing works.

Our team are available Monday through Friday, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm GMT/BST via the chat bubble in the corner 👉 and we love feedback, so if you've got any questions or ideas on how we could improve, please do get in touch!