Alert Category: Vulnerabilities and Infections – Bitsight Knowledge Base

⇤ Alert Categories

Use the Vulnerabilities and Infections alert category to be alerted to infections and confirmed vulnerabilities that affect companies in your portfolio.

The data includes:

Infections found through Compromised Systems.
Vulnerabilities detected through Open Ports.
Vulnerabilities detected through Patching Cadence.

Alert Categories are used in the following applications:

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Field	Description
Alert	The name of the vulnerability or infection that you have been alerted on.
Category	Vulnerabilities: A flaw or weakness in a system's design, implementation, or operation and management that could be exploited to violate the system's security policy. Infections: When devices or machines in an organization’s network show symptoms of malicious or unwanted software.
Company	The name of the company associated with the alert.
Date	The date when the alert was generated.
Folder	The folder, tier, or country associated with the alert.

September 9, 2024: Sepcified availability.
August 16, 2021: Published.

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