Overview
This purpose of this article is to help you understand what the graphs and metrics mean on the Nucleus Project Dashboard.
Project Dashboard
Vulnerability Overview
The project overview chart is intended to give a current snapshot of the organization from a vulnerability management perspective. The metrics contained in this panel are high level and allow a user to drill down into the data in different ways depending on their needs. To drill down into any of the metrics in the Vulnerability Overview panel, click on any of the numbers.
Using the data: the user can click to explore and manage the data in detail. For example, if a user wants to see all exploitable vulnerabilities present in their organization, they could simply click on the "Total Exploitable" metric to view a list of vulnerabilities which meet that criteria, with the ability to fully manage the vulnerability lifecycle for each of those vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities by Source
The Vulnerabilities by Source chart gives you the ability to quickly see and judge which types of vulnerabilities are the most prevalent, and the tools reporting the data. Ideally, this will also allow you to judge different tools' effectiveness over time by comparing the findings of different tools to each other at a high level.
Using the data: this chart also allows a user to drill down into the vulnerability data in a different way. Clicking on one of the bars in the chart at a severity level brings up that view. For example, if a user only wanted to see Critical Nexpose vulnerabilities, then clicking on the Nexpose bar at the Critical level brings the user to the list of all critical vulnerabilities found by Nexpose. Note, this is especially useful if the organization is feeding in the results from multiple Nexpose scanners to the same project in Nucleus.
High Risk Vulnerability Metrics
The metrics panel is meant to give a snapshot of the trends over time in your organization, without the need to go to the Vulnerabilities > Trends page for a full in-depth view.
The metrics panel shows the same criteria as the vulnerability trends page, at benchmarked time periods. The bottom three panels on the vulnerability trends page correspond to the metrics panel on the project dashboard.
Note, if you have phishing assessments set up to be ingested into Nucleus, the trends over time for those tests will be displayed in the metrics panel as well.