In this blog post, we are going to talk about a couple of older, lesser-known features that can still provide amazing value in your vulnerability management program using InsightVM. The first thing we will be covering are vulnerability categories, where to find the categories, and how we can leverage them as asset filters with Dynamic Asset Groups (DAGs). These categories will allow us to create one of my favorite workflows to set up and run on new installations to both track and remediateion Default Account vulnerabilities. We will also see how we can use this workflow as a template for additional similar workflows with different vulnerability categories.
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Vulnerability Categories and Where to Find Them in InsightVM
The first thing I like to show every customer during a deployment while we are exploring the options in the scan template is the Vulnerability Categories. You can see a list of all vulnerability categories in the Vulnerabilities tab of any scan template. It will show a list of all of the different categories, and you can also dig into each category if you want to and see all of the actual vulnerability checks that reside in each category.
Navigate to the Vulnerability Check Tab on the Scan Template and click on ‘Add Categories’
Now that we know about this list of vulnerability categories, let’s focus on my favorite vulnerability category, ‘Default Account’. This category will show all of the vulnerability checks associated with assets that are vulnerable to default ..
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