Getting started: Analyzing the security scan results

Introduction

After a security scan completes, GFI LANguard N.S.S. generates and displays the scan results in a dedicated window inside the configuration interface.

Scan results are organized by type into different categories. The amount of result categories and the type of information collected during a security scan is entirely dependent on the type of checks that have been run against the targets as well as on the parameters that have been configured in the scanning profile that was used in the audit. Hence, you will certainly obtain different scan result categories for every different scanning profile that you use to audit your network. For more information on scanning profiles refer to the `Scanning Profiles' section further on in this manual.

You can also run filters on your scan results and display only specific scan result details. This is achieved by applying `Scan Filters' to this information. For more information on scan filters refer to the `Filtering scan results' chapter in this manual.