Chapter 8. Generating Scan Reports

Note

This chapter shows you how to do some things that in many situations might be illegal, unethical, a violation of the terms of service, or just not a good idea. It is provided here to give you information that may be of use to protect yourself against threats and make your own system more secure. Before following these instructions, be sure you are on the right side of the legal and ethical line... use your powers for good!

In this chapter we will cover:

• Saving scan results in normal format

• Saving scan results in an XML format

• Saving scan results to a SQLite database

• Saving scan results in a grepable format

• Generating a network topology graph with Zenmap

• Generating an HTML scan report

• Reporting vulnerability checks performed during a scan