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ISO 27001 compliance report

Invicti helps you to identify your web application's shortcomings in complying with ISO 27001.

As an internationally adopted standard, the ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Standard specifies how the data should be managed. It lists the controls and objectives to increase, develop, and manage the security of data.

  • Following scans, Invicti lists all vulnerabilities and other issues detected in your web application. But, if you only want to view those vulnerabilities that violate ISO 27001, you can generate the ISO 27001 Compliance Report.

  • This report lists all vulnerabilities and issues that may infringe the ISO 27001 standard and classifies them according to the sections in the standard. It also displays all technical information for each identified vulnerability and, if any, proof of exploit.

  • Both Invicti products allow you to generate the ISO 27001 Compliance Report. This report principally addresses the needs of developers and IT personnel.

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There can be other vulnerabilities and security issues found in your web applications but not listed in the ISO 27001 compliance report. The report doesn't replace an official one and can't be used as an ISO 27001 compliance certificate.

ISO 27001 compliance report overview.

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Click to view a sample ISO 27001 compliance report.

For more information, refer to the Overview of reports, Report templates, and Built-in reports documents.

ISO 27001 compliance report sections​

There are five sections in the ISO 27001 compliance report:

Scan metadata​

This section provides details on the following items:

  • Scan target: the target URL or web application being scanned.
  • Scan time: when the scan was initiated.
  • Scan duration: how long the scan took to complete.
  • Description: additional notes or description of the scan.
  • Total requests: number of HTTP requests made during the scan.
  • Average speed: the average scanning speed.
  • Tags: labels applied to the scan for organization.
  • Risk level: the overall risk assessment of the target.

Vulnerabilities​

This provides a numerical and graphical overview of:

  • Numbers: the numbers of issues detected at various vulnerability severity levels.
  • Identified vulnerabilities: the total number of detected vulnerabilities.
  • Confirmed vulnerabilities: the total number of vulnerabilities that Invicti verified by taking extra steps such as extracting some data from the target.

For more information, refer to the Vulnerability severity levels document.

Vulnerability summary​

This section provides a summary of information about each discovered vulnerability and categorizes them based on severity. For example, if Invicti determines a vulnerability as Critical, it requires immediate attention.

If you click an identified vulnerability, you access detailed information, such as HTTP request and response codes and body, about the vulnerability and, if any, Proof of Exploit. If Invicti finds a vulnerability but has no proof of exploit, Invicti presents a certainty degree about this issue.

Vulnerability summary section showing categorized URLs.

The following list describes the columns in the Vulnerability summary:

  • Confirm: this shows that Invicti verified a vulnerability.
  • Vulnerability: this provides the name and link to a detected issue that attackers can attack.
  • Method: this is the HTTP method of the request in which Invicti sent the payload. It demonstrates what Invicti deployed to identify an issue.
  • URL: this is a reference to a resource that contains the issue.
  • Parameter: this is the variable used to identify the issue.

For more information, refer to the Vulnerability severity levels document.

Vulnerability names and details​

This section describes all identified issues and vulnerabilities, along with their Impact and Proof of Exploit. It also explains what Actions to Take and a Remedy for each one, including External References for more information.

Vulnerability names and details section.

The following list describes the headings in the Vulnerability Names and Details section:

  • Name: this is the name of the identified issue.
  • Tag: this is the label to group, organize, and filter issues in the target web application.
  • Proof of exploit: this is a piece of evidence to prove that vulnerability exists and information that's extracted from the target using the vulnerability. For more information, refer to the Benefits of Proof-Based Scanning™ Technology document.
Proof of exploit example.
  • Vulnerability details: this displays further details about the vulnerability.
  • Certainty value: this indicates how much Invicti is sure about the identified issue.
  • Impact: this shows the effect of the issue or vulnerability on the Target URL.
  • Required skills for successful exploitation: this gives details on how malicious hackers could exploit this issue.
  • Actions to take: these are the immediate steps you can take to decrease the impact or prevent exploitation.
Actions to take section in the vulnerability details.
  • Remedy: this offers further steps to resolve the identified issue.
  • External references: this provides links to other websites where you can find more information.
  • Classification: ISO 27001 - this set of requirements is determined by the International Organization for Standardization 27001.
  • Proof of concept notes: these notes demonstrate in principle how a system may be compromised.
Proof of Concept notes.
  • Remedy references: this provides further information on the solution of identified issues.
  • Request: this is the whole HTTP request that Invicti sent to detect the issue.
  • Response: this is the reply from the system against the payload.

Show/hide scan details​

This section provides some profile and policy settings that Invicti uses to adjust its scanning to reach more coverage. For example, it lists all enabled security checks.

Scan details section showing enabled security checks.

It provides information on your preference in choosing this scan so that developers have more details on how the scan was run.

For more information, refer to the Security Checks document.

Generate an ISO 27001 compliance report in Invicti Enterprise​

  1. Select Scans > Recent Scans from the left-side menu.
  2. Next to the relevant scan, choose Report.
  3. On the Scan Summary page, choose Export.
Export button on the Scan summary page in Invicti Enterprise.
  1. From the Report drop-down, choose ISO 27001 Compliance.
ISO 27001 Compliance option in drop-down.
  1. From the Format drop-down, choose an option.
  2. If required, choose one of the following to configure your report:
    • Exclude addressed issues excludes those issues on which you've already taken action. (All Information level findings are marked as Accepted Risk automatically by default. To change this behavior, see Do not mark Information issues as accepted risks in the General Settings document).
    • Exclude history of issues excludes the issue history from the report. If unselected, only the last 10 history items appear in the report. For more information, refer to the Viewing Issues in Invicti Enterprise document.
    • Only confirmed issues includes only those issues that are confirmed.
    • Only unconfirmed issues includes only those issues that are unconfirmed.
  3. Select Export.

You can view the report in the saved location.

Generate an ISO 27001 compliance report in Invicti Standard​

  1. From the ribbon, choose the File tab. Local Scans are displayed. Double-click the relevant scan to display its results.
  2. From the Reporting tab, choose ISO 27001 Compliance Report. The Save Report As dialog box is displayed.
Reporting tab with ISO 27001 Compliance Report option.
  1. Choose a save location and choose Save.
  2. The Export Report dialog is also displayed at this point, with the Path field already populated from the previous dialog.
Invicti Standard Export Report dialog.
  1. From the Export Report dialog, you can decide on:
    • Policy: choose the default report policy or customized report policy. For more information, refer to the Custom Report Policies document.
    • Format: choose HTML and/or PDF format.
    • Vulnerability options (choose one or all):
      • Export confirmed: when selected, the report includes confirmed vulnerabilities.
      • Export unconfirmed: when selected, the report also includes unconfirmed vulnerabilities.
      • Export all variations: variations mean that if Invicti identified some passive or Information level issues in more than one page, it does not show all these variations. However, users can change this by enabling or disabling this option.
    • Header and Footer: enter relevant information that appears in the header and footer section of the report.
    • Open generated report: when selected, your reports are shown when you click Save.
  2. Select Save.

You can view the report in the saved location.

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The HTML Report format is interactive thanks to the Severity Filter. For example, if you prefer not to see Best Practice or Information details, you can deselect them. When you click the plus sign under Vulnerabilities, you can access more information on the issue. Also, you can Hide or Show Remediation.

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