Getting Started with the Portal

Purpose

This document gives a short overview of the Outpost24 Portal UI interface.

Introduction

This quick start guide is the first step on getting started with the Outpost24 Portal and gives a quick overview of the Outpost24 Portal graphical interface.

Prerequisites

To run scans in Outpost24 Portal, the reader needs basic access to an OUTSCAN/HIAB or Appsec account.

Make sure that the private IP range 10.88.0.0/16 is not used in your environment, since this is used to communicate with a restricted container on the scanner. Having targets in this range while using the side scripts feature may cause issues while scanning them.

There are several ways to login to the Outpost24 Portal UI:

From OUTSCAN
From a HIAB
or directly to the Outpost24 Portal

Log In Through OUTSCAN and HIAB

To launch the OUTSCAN application, open a browser and navigate to https://outscan.outpost24.com/.
To connect to a HIAB, open a browser and enter the assigned network address https://your-appliance-ip.

Always use the HTTPS protocol when accessing OUTSCAN or the HIAB.

Log in using your credentials.
To access the Outpost24 common Portal , go to Main Menu > Portal.

Log In Directly to Portal

Open a browser and navigate to https://outscan.outpost24.com/portal.

The Portal is only reachable via HTTPS.

Enter your credentials and click on the blue arrow button to log in.

Logout

To log out from the Portal, click the icon in the upper right corner of the window.

The logout window is displayed.

Click on the red LOGOUT button to log out from the Portal,

When selecting an item in a table, a toolbar is displayed at the bottom of the screen showing the available tools for that specific view.

The tools vary between different views and tables.

The tools can also be accessed by right clicking on an item which provides an menu for that specific item.

By hovering with the cursor over a tooltip, a popup is displayed.

Main Menu

The Main Menu is located in the column on the left side of the screen.

The available views in the Portal main menu are:

At the bottom of the toolbar there is a Netsec entry that links to the Netsec UI.

On the top right side of the toolbar:

Notification
All downloads
Logout
Accounts

The letters in the Account icon varies depending on the name of the account.

Filter Toolbar

The filter toolbar contains functions for configuring the columns in the view, filter configuration for the content of the columns, and view templates.

To the left:

The Column plus icon open the Column table where you can select which column that should be visible in the view.

The Filters funnel icon allows you filter the contents of the columns.

The View Templates icon lets you save the set up as a View Template which then can be maintained in the Configuration > View Templates.

The Asset Groups and Assets icon displays the of the available Asset Groups and Assets. This is only visible when in the Vulnerabilities- or Compliance view.

To the right:

On the right hand side the active filters are displayed which can be individually switched off or the red icon can be used to remove all active filters.

Loading Time

Loading took: At the bottom of the frame there is an indication of the time taken by the server to return the list of items visible inside the table, the timing is updated when filtering or vertically scrolling inside the table.

Refresh the page by clicking on the icon down to the left.

Notifications

The Notification provides you with knowledge about changes to vulnerability management program. For example, when the scanner is updated, when alterations are made, and when scanning occurs unsuccessfully.

See Notifications and Notification Settings for more information.

Getting Started with the Portal

Purpose

Introduction