In this article, we’ll go over the essential features of the Strike platform, explaining how each section works and how it can help you manage your security processes more effectively.
1. Workspaces Manager
The Workspaces section allows you to organize and manage different teams or clients within the platform. Accessible from the sidebar, you can easily navigate through various workspaces, each with its own set of data, pentests, vulnerabilities, and users. This section provides a centralized view for managing security activities in a collaborative environment.
How to navigate: Simply click on the Workspaces icon in the sidebar to view the list of available workspaces. You can select and switch between different workspaces with ease.
2. Hours Sections
The Hours section provides insights into the number of hours purchased by your organization and how they are being used across different pentests and activities. This section displays consumption metrics, so you can track how your allocated hours are being utilized, ensuring that you’re managing resources effectively.
Key metrics: View real-time data on the hours consumed, remaining hours, and how resources are being spent across your security tasks.
3. Dashboard
The Dashboard serves as the home of the platform, offering a high-level overview of your organization's security status. It consolidates all the essential information, such as ongoing pentests, vulnerabilities, and performance metrics, allowing you to monitor the overall health of your security posture. The dashboard gives you quick access to detailed reports, allowing you to act swiftly on emerging security issues.
What you can do: Get a snapshot of your company’s security across clients and projects, making it easier to stay on top of your security needs.
4. Vulnerabilities
The Vulnerabilities section acts as your vulnerability management hub, listing all the discovered vulnerabilities in one place. It allows you to track, categorize and manage vulnerabilities.
Key features: Sort vulnerabilities by severity, tag vulnerabilities, request retesting and manage their statuses as they are addressed.
5. Compliance Report
The Compliance Report section is dedicated to managing compliance-related tasks. In this section, you can link your automated scans directly to the report, generating a clear and structured compliance overview. Once the scan results are integrated, you can download the report to share with stakeholders or auditors.
Key features: Link results from automated scans to the compliance report, download the report for external use, integrate with third-party compliance platforms for more seamless workflows.
6. Manual Pentesting
In the Manual Pentesting section, you can request and manage all of your pentests. This area gives you full control over the testing process, from submitting new requests to reviewing completed pentests. Each pentest is listed here, and you can easily navigate through individual pentests to view details, progress, and results.
What you can do: Request new pentests, monitor ongoing ones, and review detailed test reports from this section.
7. Automated Scans
Automated Scans allows you to schedule and configure automatic scans of your domains. These scans run at specified intervals and detect potential vulnerabilities across your systems. The results of these scans can be linked directly to the Compliance Report section, ensuring that you stay on top of compliance with minimal effort.
Key feature: Set up recurring automated scans and integrate the results into your compliance tracking.
8. Notifications
The Notifications section keeps you updated on important events and actions within the platform. Whether it’s an alert about a new pentest request or a notification about system changes, this feature ensures you never miss crucial updates.
What you can do: View and manage all platform notifications in one place, ensuring you're always in the loop.
9. Profile
In the Profile section, you can manage your personal and organization information, as well as adjust settings related to your account. Under Settings, you can configure company data, manage team members, update workspace information, and handle integrations with other platforms.
What you can do: Update your organization’s profile, manage user roles, configure workspaces, and set up integrations to enhance your platform experience.