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You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
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Test policy and optimization
Define the collection of tests that will be sent to the application during testing; the test policy, and apply optimization for faster scans at times in the product lifecycle when speed is more important to you than scan depth.
Test policy update settings
This dialog box opens from Configuration > Test policy and optimization > Edit > Update settings.

Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
- Presets
  Presets give you the main configuration views needed for a particular type of scan.
- Views
  - Starting URL and domains
    Configure the Starting URL for the scan, and any additional servers and domains to be included.
  - API
    For scanning web APIs, define the your API type (improves coverage by better configuring custom parameters), explore method, and domains to be tested.
  - Exclude paths and files
    You can configure AppScan to ignore certain paths in the application, or specific types of file.
  - Multi-step operations
    Record and manage multi-step operations that are required to reach specific parts of the application that could otherwise be missed.
  - Login management
    Show AppScan® how to log in to your application.
  - One-time password (OTP)
    Configure AppScan® to use OTP (a kind of multi-factor authentication, or MFA) when logging in.
  - HTTP authentication
    Add server-level authentication and client-side certificates, if required by the application.
  - AWS authorization
    Configure AWS settings.
  - Communication and proxy
    Configure communication timeout and proxy server settings.
  - Parameters, cookies & headers
    Identify session IDs and list parameters to exclude from the scan.
  - Automatic form fill
    Provide AppScan® with valid parameter values for filling forms in your application during the scan.
  - Error pages
    Add strings, regular expressions and URLs to identify your application's custom error pages.
  - Explore options
    Define the explore method (action-based, request-based, or both) that AppScan will use to explore the application, as well as other basic and advanced explore settings.
  - Test policy and optimization
    Define the collection of tests that will be sent to the application during testing; the test policy, and apply optimization for faster scans at times in the product lifecycle when speed is more important to you than scan depth.
    - Editing a test policy
      Test Policy view can be used to fine-tune your selected test policy.
    - Importing a Test Policy
    - Predefined policies
    - Test policy update settings
      This dialog box opens from Configuration > Test policy and optimization > Edit > Update settings.
  - Environment definition
    Environment definition is not essential, but enables AppScan® to safely refrain from sending non-relevant tests during the scan, resulting in a faster and more accurate scan. Customizing CVSS 3.1 environmental scores will improve the accuracy of your scan results.
  - Test options
    Additional test options.
  - Privilege escalation
    Compare scans that used different user privileges, to discover if privileged resources are accessible to non-privileged users.
  - Content-based view
    Lets you define a logical structure for the application tree, for cases where a URL-based tree will just be a long list under one or two URLs. This is not essential, but can make it much easier to navigate results.
  - Advanced configuration
    This view gives you access to many advanced registry settings and it should only be used by experienced AppScan users, or when instructed to do so by the support team to troubleshoot a problem.
- Scan using a Postman Collection
  If you have a Postman Collection of requests to your web API, you can import it and use it as the basis for a scan.
- Incremental scan wizard
  Lists the steps of this wizard.
- Scan file structure
  Explains the basic structure of an AppScan Standard SCAN file.
- Scan templates
  A scan template is simply a scan configuration that has been saved so that you can use it again.
- Changing the configuration during a scan

Test policy update settings

This dialog box opens from Configuration > Test policy and optimization > Edit > Update settings.

Select which types of tests (if any) will be added to the current Test Policy when new tests are added to your AppScan® tests database. Tests are updated when you load a scan or a template, or when you import a test policy file.

There are three groups: Test Type, Test Invasiveness, and Test Severity. Note that only tests that belong to a selected category in all three groups will be added to the current policy when new tests become available. For example: If you select High Severity, but deselect Invasive, high severity, invasive tests will not be added to this policy when updates become available.