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Review discovered assets

The dashboard is the visual intelligence hub of External Attack Surface Management (EASM). It aggregates and displays key insights from EASM scans and timeline-based comparisons, providing both real-time and historical views of your organization's complete digital footprint, overall cyber hygiene posture, risk exposure, and attack surface insights.

The dashboard presents visual, contextual, and interactive data, making it a powerful decision-making tool for executives and security analysts.

Get access to the dashboard​

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.
  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.
  3. Select the dashboard icon dashboard_easm.png.

Filter search results​

Use filters to narrow the search results.

Filter results by business unit​

Filter the search results to view department-specific or client-specific insights, such as those related to teams, subsidiaries, or clients.

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.
  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.
  3. Select the dashboard icon.
  4. In the left navigation panel, from the Business units dropdown, select an option to filter the search results.

Filter results by location​

Filter the search results to view geographical distribution of assets and risks.

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.
  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.
  3. Select the dashboard icon.
  4. In the left navigation panel, from the Locations dropdown, select an option to filter the search results.

View issue heatmap by severity​

Executives can use the heatmap view to visualize issues by severity and category.

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.

  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.

  3. Select the dashboard icon. The dashboard shows the following key insights:

    • To view the count of the discovered assets, severity indicators and the actions suggested to reduce attack surface exposure, use the navigation icons:
      • DISCOVERY: review the discovered assets.
      • HYGIENE: view a detailed breakdown of indicator types and their severity levels.
      • ATTACK SURFACE REDUCTION assess necessary actions to reduce attack exposure.
    • The circular chart provides an overall rating, either across all assets discovered, for specific items, or based on filters chosen.

  4. To open a menu, hover over a heatmap. Then, select from the following options:

    • Export icon export_easm.png: create a report using a pre-defined template.
    • Update icon update_banner_easm.png: see updated banner stats for a particular domain or item.
    • Expand icon expand_results_easm.png: see a detailed breakdown of the discovery, hygiene, and attack surface reduction for a heatmap block.

View global asset distribution​

Executives can view the geographical distribution of discovered assets in the world map. Regions are color-coded to indicate overall hygiene scores. Additional information about discovery, hygiene, and attack surface reduction is available in the right-hand panel.

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.
  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.
  3. Select the dashboard icon.
  4. To open the world map view, from the top of the table, use the dropdown and select World map.

Manage and categorize discovered assets​

Things provides a CMDB-style interface that categorizes all discovered assets. Use it to perform operational tasks on assets, such as tagging, onboarding, and triaging assets.

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.
  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.
  3. Select the dashboard icon.
  4. To open the Things view, from the top of the page, use the dropdown and select Things.
  5. To filter Things, at the top-right corner of the page, select the appropriate filter.
  6. To perform bulk actions, locate Things, select the checkboxes, then select EDIT SELECTED.

Compare results with different datasets​

To perform quarterly reviews or post-incident evaluations, use the Compare with feature on a dataset in the timeline.

To complete this task:

  1. Sign in to the Veracode Platform.
  2. Select Scans and Analysis > EASM.
  3. Select the dashboard icon.
  4. Select Compare with.
  5. To compare two different sets of results and identify what is new, changed, or resolved, select another dataset to create a comparison.
  6. To return to the standard scan view, select the X next to the scan timestamp at the top of the page.
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