Create Targets

Purpose

This document describes how to create targets.

Introduction

The Target Groups grid is used to organize targets. Targets are the assets that can be managed in the system.

Targets are added under the Manage Target section, which is accessible either using the icon on the desktop of from the menu at the bottom left of the GUI.

There are three generic ways to add targets to the system. Two of those can be performed from this section and the third is to conduct a Discovery Scan and thus that functionality is tied to the scheduling section discussed later in this document.

Icon List

Icon	Name	Description
	New	Clicking New opens the Add New Targets window. The newly created targets will belong to the currently selected target group.
	Show Groups	Show all target groups in which this target has been added to.
	Audit Log	To see the changes made to a certain entry, right click on it and select Audit log. This show a dialog with all the changes made to the object that were made by you or one of the users that you administrate.
	Lookup	Filter the target group grid.
	Delete	Clicking Delete while having any targets selected deletes them from the system. Multiple targets can be selected for deletion by holding shift while selecting the targets. Note Reports for the selected targets are not deleted.
	Edit	To edit a target, right-click on it and select Edit. This allows you to set the Hostname, MAC Address, label the systems importance which is used to calculate CVSS scores, and set Virtual host, hidden URLs. It also includes settings to set target to override scan policy.
	Export	To export data from the grid, right click on any entry and select either to export it as HTML or CSV (comma separated values) in the sub menu. This gives you either a HTML page or a CSV file with data that you can save or copy data from.
	Settings	Global settings for Target Management
	Scan	Create a scan schedule for the target group.
	Label Target, Update from ServiceNow, Set Policies on Target	By right-clicking on a target you can choose to update specific labels or attributes on the target.
	Show Scanner, Set Scanners on Targets	Lists or set scanners on targets groups.
	Refresh	Refresh the grid
	Label Targets,Update from ServiceNow, Set Policies on Targets	By right-clicking on a target group you can choose to update specific labels or attributes on the targets in that group.
	Set Target Authentication	Select available authentication from a drop down menu
	Column Menu	To add or remove columns, hover the mouse over any column name and click the down pointing arrow.

Managing Targets

Create a New Target

To create a target:

1. Open the Manage Targets module in Main Menu > Netsec > Manage Targets.

2. Click on + New in the Targets field to display the Add New Targets window.
   
   

   

   
   
   

   Format	Description
   fc00::23	IPv6
   192.168.200.23|virtualhost,virtualhost	IPv4
   192.168.200.1/24	CIDR
   192.168.200.3-192.168.200.15	IP range
   host.domain.com	FQDN
   \\netbios_host	netBIOS hostname

3. Fill in the required information in the form fields and click Save.
   

Targets can also be imported from a Comma Separated Values (csv) file, LDAP/AD, or ServiceNow by clicking on respective Import/Upload button.

Option	Description
New Target List	Add one or multiple targets using the presented help text. Note Private IP addresses cannot be added when using OUTSCAN.
DNS Lookup	Select if a DNS look-up should be performed when adding the IP addresses to the system to get the host name in the system.
NetBIOS Lookup (HIAB only)	Select if a NetBIOS look-up should be performed when adding the IP addresses to the system to get the host name in the system.
Scanner (HIAB only)	Set which scanner that should scan the defined targets. Default is set to local and that is referring to the machine that you are logged on to. If you have a distributed network with multiple scanners that is accepted by the scheduler, you will be able to choose which scanner to use in the drop-down menu. If you have a HIAB External license, the OUTSCAN scanner is also available in the drop-down and should be used if public IPs are to be scanned from the OUTSCAN SaaS solution.
Attributes	This option is used to add additional information about the target. This is displayed as a column with the given field name in the Managed Targets grid.
Upload From File	Import a previously exported target group file or custom Comma Separated Values (csv) file.
Import from LDAP/AD	Import targets from LDAP/AD.
Import From ServiceNow	Import targets from ServiceNow.

Important

Certain tasks like adding a large/multiple networks can take a long time. When it takes more than 90 seconds, the progress can be viewed in the Task Viewer tab located at the bottom right of the task bar. Task Viewer appears for a user only if  there is at least one task in the list. The three possible states for a task appearing in Task Viewer are:

• In Progress
• Done
• Error

Import from LDAP/AD

The Import from LDAP/AD button displays a window where you can select which targets to import into the HIAB.

Import From ServiceNow

The Import from ServiceNow button displays a window where you can select which targets to import into the HIAB from ServiceNow.

Upload From File

Adding targets from a CSV-file.

1. Click the + New button in the Targets view.
   
   

   

   
   
   
   
2. Click the Upload From File button.
   
   

   

   
   
   

3. Import the exported target group file or custom Comma Separated Values (csv) file by clicking the + button to select a file.
   
   

   

   
   
   

   Option	Description
   Upload From File	Select a file to import.
   Separator	Define what separator is used in the file. Tab Comma ( , ) Semicolon ( ; ) Colon ( : )
   Text Delimiter	Define what text delimiter is used in the file. Single Quote ( ' ) Double Quote ( " )
   Skip First Line	Select this to skip the first line. Ex. for a header line.

4. Click Next to continue.
5. Once uploaded, continue with mapping the files information to the target by selecting the appropriate subject in the drop-down menus.
   
   

   

   
   
   
6. Finish by clicking the Save button.

Inspecting and Editing Targets

Once targets have been added into a group it will look like this.

Some of the columns does not get populated until the target has been scanned.

To add or remove columns, hover the mouse over any column name and click the down pointing arrow. Click Columns and select the columns you wish to add to the grid:

Edit a Target

When right clicking on any target in the Target section the following menu are displayed:

Options	Description
Show Groups	Show all target groups in which this target has been added to.
Perform DNS lookup	To perform a DNS lookup on an individual target, right-click on the target and select Perform DNS lookup. This tries to determine the targets host name and store that information in the system.
Perform MAC Lookup (HIAB only)	To perform a MAC lookup on the selected target, right-click on the target and select Perform MAC Lookup.
Perform NetBIOS lookup (HIAB only)	To perform a NetBIOS lookup on the selected target, right-click on the target and select Perform NetBIOS Lookup.
Label Targets	By right-clicking on a target you can choose to update specific labels or attributes on the target(s).
Update from ServiceNow	Update the target with information from ServiceNow.
Set Policies on Targets	Select policies for the target.
Scan	Create Scan Schedule for the selected target. See Scan Scheduling on more information about creating a scan schedule.
New	Add a new target. See Create_Target.
Delete	Clicking Delete while having any targets selected deletes them from the system. Multiple targets can be selected for deletion by holding shift while selecting the targets. Note Reports for the selected targets are not deleted.
Edit	To edit a target, right-click on it and select Edit. This allows you to set the Hostname, MAC Address, label the systems importance which is used to calculate CVSS scores, toggle the Exposed flag, and set Virtual host, hidden URLs. It also includes settings to set target to override scan policy.
Audit log	To see the changes made to a certain entry, right click on it and select Audit log. This show a dialog with all the changes made to the object that were made by you or one of the users that you administrate.
Export	To export data from the grid, right click on any entry and select either to export it as HTML or CSV (comma separated values) in the sub menu. This gives you either a HTML page or a CSV file with data that you can save or copy data from. Note The CSV export function in the grid has a limit of 100k rows.
Show Scan Results	Shows latest scan results for this target in the Reporting Tools.
Remove from group	Clicking on Remove from group while one or more targets have been selected, removes them from the group.

To edit a target:

Right click on the specific target and select Edit.

The Maintaining Target window is displayed.

In the top of the window you find the general information about the target that you are editing such as:

Options	Description
IP Address	The targets IP address
Hostname	The targets hostname
MAC Address	The targets MAC address The field MAC-Address does not get populated until the target has been scanned.
Business criticality	The targets business criticality select from Low, Medium, High, or Criticality
Exposed	Toggle if the target is exposed on internet or not.
Scanner	Select scanner. Local or available scanners.

The following tabs are present in the Maintaining Target window:

WEB Settings

Options	Description
Virtual Hosts	If there are one or multiple virtual hosts on the target, you can add them here. Up to 10 virtual hosts can be defined per target.
Hidden URLs	Add URLs that cannot be crawled from the default site. URLs that are added here will be crawled separately.
URL Blacklist	Add URLs that you would like the scanner NOT to scan. Most common blacklisted URL is the site’s logout URL to prevent the scanner from logging itself out.
Request Body Blacklist	Add body blacklists.

CVSS Score

Use the drop-down menus in this tab to evaluate the impact of a security breach on the target. Grade the availability, integrity,  confidentiality, along with the Collateral Damage Potential and this will be considered when the CVSS score is being set. This is done to personalize the CVSS scores as some targets are more valuable than other.

Attributes

This tab is only displayed if the user has one or more custom attributes configured to be shown in Targets. This is to add the ability to add additional information about the target.

Target attributes can be set in Main Menu > Settings > Account > Attributes tab.

See Attributes for information on how to add personal attributes columns.

Override Scan Policy

This tab will give you the ability to set what vulnerabilities will be searched/not searched for on this target. This will override the scan policy used for the scan of this target.

For more information about scan policies, see Scan Scheduling document.

Authentication

Use this tab to fill in information that will help the scanner to authenticate against the target every time it gets scanned. Authentication allows the scanner to access registry keys and perform sudo-commands which greatly increases the scan accuracy. 

SSH

See Authenticated Scanning using SSH for more information.

SMB

Contains the authentication settings and credentials used to enable Authenticated Scanning using SMB.

For more information, see Authenticated Scanning using SMB.

vSphere

Contains the authentication/configuration settings for the VMware vSphere. If configured, they are used when scanning targets running this service.

vSphere credentials are only used if a compliance scan is running. In addition, the target must have a ESXI compliance policy enabled.

CyberArk SSH

Contains the authentication settings and credentials used to enable Authenticated Scanning using CyberArk SSH.

See Integrations for more information.

CyberArk SMB

Contains the authentication settings and credentials used to enable Authenticated Scanning using CyberArk SMB.

See Netsec Integrations for more information.

Thycotic SSH /SMB

Contains the authentication settings and credentials used to enable Authenticated Scanning using Thycotic SSH or Thycotic SMB.

See Netsec Integrations for more information.

Option	Description
Thycotic Config	Select the config from the drop-down list.
Secret name	Provide the name of the Secret.  Note When the user provides a phrase, it searches for the name matching the given phrase. The first name matched is used. ${IP} will get replaced by the target IP.  ${HOSTNAME} will get replaced by the host name of the target.
When the user provides a phrase, it searches for the name matching the given phrase. The first name matched is used. ${IP} will get replaced by the target IP.  ${HOSTNAME} will get replaced by the host name of the target.
Override path	Provide a new path to cancel using the existing path.
SSH substitute user command	The use of the following commands is to execute commands with a different user/privilege escalation. sudo: This command is found in most of the Linux based systems (or can be installed). Used to execute commands as a different user (other than the one used to log in). From the tools perspective, it uses root account to perform the commands. doas: It is an OpenBSD based command. 95% of its features are like sudo. https://man.openbsd.org/doas sesu: It is an IBM implementation of su. dzdo: Used in Linux/Unix (can be installed at will). An alternative to sudo. pfexec: Mostly used in Solaris. custom: It gives a flexibility to use a custom defined privilege escalation command.
SSH custom user command	This field is available when the user selects custom in the SSH substitute user command field. Add a custom command for escalating privilege.
SMB allow NTLMv1	Check this box to enable the authentication using NTLMv1.
Enable remote registry	If enabled, the scanner initiates the Remote Registry service with the given details. Disable the service when the scan is finished.

Compliance Scanning

The Compliance Scanning tab is available if you have a Compliance Scanning license.

Caution

The policies for the Compliance Scanning can be set only through Maintaining Scan Schedule window. Refer to Scan Scheduling guide for detailed information.

Databases

Use this tab to fill in information that will help the scanner to authenticate against a database on the target. This is only used when running a compliance scan and if a SQL database has been defined.

The settings for the database targets can be edited by right-click a database and and select edit in the menu.

Label Targets

1. Right click the target.
2. Select Label targets in list.
   
   

   

   
   
   

3. Select labels from drop-down menus.
   
   

   

   
   
   
   

   Note that the checkbox to the left of the drop-down must be checked for the value to be set. 

   Option	Description
   Exposed	Yes/No
   Business criticality	Low, Medium, High , Critical
   Collateral Damage Potential	Not Defined, None, Low, Low-Medium, Medium-High, High
   Security Requirements - Availability	Not Defined, Low, Medium, High
   Security Requirements - Integrity	Not Defined, Low, Medium, High
   Security Requirements - Confidentiality	Not Defined, Low, Medium, High
   Target distribution	Not Defined, None, Low, Medium, High

4. Click Save.

Scanning a Target

To set up a scan schedule from a single target:

1. Go to Main Meny > Netsec > Manage Targets.
2. Select the target you want to scan
3. Right click a target and select Scan

4. In the Create Scan Schedule window, fill in:
   
   

   Option	Description
   Name	Name of the schedule.
   Scan Mode	Select scan mode: Scan Discovery Discovery/Scan
   Scan Policy	Scan Policy enables you to configure each scan to suit your network environment. See Scan Policy section on how to create Scan Policies.
   Scanning Frequency	Scanning Frequency defines how often the scan schedule should run.
   Next Scan	Displays the date of the next scan (if scheduled).
   Use Global Ignore List	The Global Ignore List is a default ignore list of targets that is excluded from scanning. See Global Settings section on how to create a Global Ignore Target List.

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