Vulnerability assessment policy

Vulnerability assessment policy is a security policy that automatically checks the Microsoft and third-party products installed on the workload for vulnerabilities and notifies you about them.

For more information on the Vulnerability assessment functionality, refer to https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/CyberProtectionService/index.html#44456

The following example can be used when creating a protection plan with this protection policy:

Policy example

{
    # Put a unique ID of the policy here.
    'id': '',
    # Vulnerability assessment policy type is 'policy.security.vulnerability_assessment'
    'type': 'policy.security.vulnerability_assessment',
    'parent_ids': [
        # Put the ID of total protection policy here.
    ],
    'origin': 'upstream',
    'enabled': True,
    'settings_schema': '2.0',
    'settings': {
        # Set to true to include Linux packages in the scan scope.
        'check_linux_packages': True,
        # Set to true to include third-party applications in the scan scope.
        'check_third_party_applications': True,
        # Set to true to include Microsoft products in the scan scope.
        'check_windows_components': True,
        # An object with the schedule settings
        'schedule': {
            'activation': {
                'action': 'run',
                'timeout': {
                    'count': 4294967295,
                    'type': 'seconds'
                }
            },
            'alarms': {
                'time': {
                    'rand_max_delay': {
                        'count': 3600,
                        'type': 'seconds'
                    },
                    'run_later': False,
                    'time_from': {
                        'hour': 9,
                        'minute': 5,
                        'second': 0
                    },
                    'wake_on_lan': False,
                    'weekdays': [
                        'mon',
                        'tue',
                        'wed',
                        'thu',
                        'fri',
                        'sat',
                        'sun'
                    ]
                }
            },
            'conditions': {},
            'prevent_sleep': True,
            'type': 'daily'
        }
    }
}