File Sharing & Audit Tool

Select Add Scanning Configuration

• Config Name: The name of the scanning config

• Scan Networks: Select whether to scan the configured local network or a defined network range.

  • Local home networks: Scan configured local networks such as 192.168.1.0/24

  • Defined network ranges: Scan the defined network ranges

    • Add Network range: The network range in CIDR that will be scanned such as 192.168.20.0/24

• Authentication Method: Select whether to scan the network as a Guest or with Defined credentials

  • Guest: Scan the network as a guest

  • Defined credentials: Scan the network with credentials

    • Auth Username: The username of the account

    • Auth Domain: The domain i.e. domain.local

    • Auth Password: The account password

• Schedule run day: Select the day of week for the scan to run

  • Monday

  • Tuesday

  • Wednesday

  • Thursday

  • Friday

  • Saturday

  • Sunday

• Alert on new shares discovered: Triggers an alert when new shared folders are detected on the network 

• Alert on shared executable files: Triggers an alert when executable files are found in shared locations

• Alert on writable shared executable files: Triggers an alert when executable files in shares have write permissions (high risk)

• Alert on new shared executable files: Triggers an alert when new executable files are added to shares

• Alert on files exceeding: Enter size of file in MB

• Alert when 'X' files have been modified: Useful for detecting abnormal bulk changes (possible ransomware activity)

• Alert when 'X' files have been removed: Helps detect suspicious deletion activity

• Alert when 'X' new files have been found: Detects large file uploads or unexpected data dumps

Alert Exclusions:

Define patterns or paths to ignore.

Example use cases:

• Exclude backup directories

• Ignore software deployment shares

• Exclude known safe executables

Select Add Alert Exclusion to create a new exclusion rule.

Alert on custom file name matching:

Example use cases:

• Compliance monitoring

• Sensitive document tracking

• Data leak detection

Select Add Custom File Alert to create a new file alert.

Notify email address:

Enter one or more email addresses to receive scan alerts by selecting Add Email Address.