What is it?
A focused scan, designed to check affected targets for a specific vulnerability.
What is the benefit of a remediation scan?
You no longer need to wait for a full scan to complete before verifying if your remediation efforts were effective. Another added benefit is that it should bring down your 'time to fix' metric:
How does it work?
Simply head to your Current Issues page > click 'Actions' > click 'Rescan':
A scan will then start on all targets that have been flagged as affected, and you'll see this scan pop up on the scans page. The name of the scan will correspond to the vulnerability you want to verify. For example, a remediation scan on the 'MySQL Dump File Exposed' issue will be entitled:
How can I track these scans?
Activity feed
Dashboard > Activity feed:
Target details page:
Targets > Target's detail page > Activity tab:
Scans page:
Scans > Filter scan type by 'Remediation scan':
Where can I view the results of these scans?
Clicking a scan will take you through to the scan's detail page. If your remediation efforts were successful, the page will look a little like this:
If the remediation efforts weren't successful (and the issue remains), it will look something like this:
How will I be notified?
We'll let you know via the usual channels:
If you've successfully remediated everything, it will look like this:
If you've successfully remediated some of the occurrences (but one or more remain), it will look like this:
If none of your remediation efforts were unsuccessful, the email will look like this:
This feature is available to Cloud, Pro, Enterprise, and Vanguard users