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      What Are The Assessments Types In Edgescan?

      There are 6 core assessment types in Edgescan. All assessments must fall into one of the below categories. The most common are automated scheduled, retest and penetration testing assessments.

      Version Number: v1.0.0

      Published Date: 2nd January 2025

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      Name Data Model Name Description
      Automated Scheduled scheduled
      • Fully automated assessment including DAST & Infrastructure/Network assessment.
      • Scope is set by Customer or Edgescan testing team.
      • Usually included as part of a scan schedule.
      • All results validated.
      Retest retest
      • Doesn't include full automated assessment.
      • Scope is limited to one or many currently open vulnerabilities.
      • All results validated.
      Penetration Test pen_test
      • Usually includes automated scheduled assessment and manual penetration testing that focuses on breaking the business logic of the scoped technology.
      • Can we on Infrastructure/Network and/or Applications/APIs.
      • All results validated.
      On demand on_demand
      • An ad-hoc automated scheduled assessment.
      • All results validated.
      PCI scheduled pci_scheduled
      • Same as automated scheduled assessment, included PCI specific controls and certain vulnerabilities cannot be excluded from testing.
      • Assessment will have a PCI fail/pass set for each asset.
      PCI rescan pci_rescan
      • Can only occur after a PCI scheduled assessment has been committed.