Working with Security Manager Plus

Overview

Security Manager Plus is a web-based vulnerability scanner and patch remediation software which scans your network for vulnerabilities and applies patches for Windows systems. Working with Security Manager Plus mainly involves a few simple steps, as outlined here.

Discovery - involves addition of the assets / resources present in your enterprise (the servers, workstations, laptops, routers, switches and others) into the Security Manager Plus enterprise setup for vulnerability assessment.
Scan - involves scanning of desired enterprise resources for vulnerabilities. If asset discovery has not been performed then scan will involve discovering the assets first and then scanning them for vulnerabilities, open ports and missing patches and service packs.
Remediation - involves fixing issues that cause vulnerabilities in Windows systems by deploying missing patches and service packs detected as a result of a scan on these systems.
Reports - you can generate standard remediation or executive reports or even customize your reports based on your requirement.

Over and above the afore mentioned main steps, Security Manager Plus also supports :

Groups - Security Manager Plus facilitates vulnerability scanning based:
- on discovered Assets , called Asset Groups
- on published vulnerabilities or vendor specific security bulletins - called Vulnerability Groups
Scheduler - helps you to automatically perform vulnerability assessment of desired assets or groups at a predetermined time on a hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Updating the vulnerability database, to be in sync with the latest vulnerability information from the AdventNet website.
Configuring settings like mail-server, proxy server parameters, user administration etc. to ensure smooth functioning of Security Manager Plus.
Manage credentials by supplying username and password that can be applied commonly across a group of network assets.

Follow the instructions given in the "Before you start" section before proceeding to work with Security Manager Plus.