Practical Vulnerability Management

11GENERATING ASSET AND VULNERABILITY REPORTS

Now that you have some asset and vulnerability data to work with, you’ll use that data to generate reports about the asset information for each device in your database. When your boss asks, “How many Linux servers do we have?” or “How many of our desktops are susceptible to this new zero-day vulnerability I heard about on the news this morning?” you can use these reports to provide a confident answer. Before diving into this chapter, be sure to work through the database maintenance steps in Chapter 10.

Asset Reports

An asset report is an overview of all the different systems in your environment. It ...