Enable or disable Vulnerability Scan.

Enable or disable the eye icon to show or hide this feature from the end user in FortiClient.

Scanning

Scan endpoints upon connecting to a FortiGate.

Scan endpoints upon updating a vulnerability signature.

Run system updates for the underlying operating system (OS):

• For an endpoint with Microsoft Windows installed, this option scans for and applies Windows OS patches for security updates.
• For an endpoint with macOS installed, this option runs the OS software updates.

FortiClient notifies the OS to do these updates.

If you disable this option, FortiClient sends a message to EMS to specify the endpoint paused Windows Update.

If you enable this option and Windows Update is in a paused state, FortiClient deletes the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings registry key and Windows Update resumes so that FortiClient VCM can detect OS vulnerabilities again.

Enable using proxy settings configured in when downloading updates for vulnerability patches.

Configure settings for automatic maintenance. This configures Vulnerability Scan to run as part of Windows automatic maintenance. Adding FortiClient Vulnerability Scans to the Windows automatic maintenance queue allows the system to choose an appropriate time for the scan that minimally impacts the user, PC performance, and energy efficiency. See Automatic maintenance.

Specify how often Vulnerability Scan needs to be started during automatic maintenance. Enter the desired number of days.

Specify when Windows must start Vulnerability Scan during emergency automatic maintenance, if Vulnerability Scan did not complete during regular automatic maintenance. Enter the desired number of days.

This value must be greater than the Period value.

Configure settings for scheduled scanning.

Select Daily, Weekly, Monthly.

Configure the day the scan will run. This only applies if the schedule type is configured to Weekly or Monthly. Select a day of the week (Sunday through Monday) or a day of the month (1st through the 31st).

Configure the time the scan starts.

Automatic Patching

Patches are installed automatically when vulnerabilities are detected. Select one of the following:

• Critical: Patch critical vulnerabilities only
• High: Patch high severity and above vulnerabilities
• Medium: Patch medium severity and above vulnerabilities
• Low: Patch low severity and above vulnerabilities
• All: Patch all vulnerabilities.

Automatic patching may require the endpoint to reboot.

All applications that require the endpoint user to manually patch vulnerabilities are excluded from vulnerability compliance check.

This option does not exclude applications from vulnerability scanning.

In the <number> Applications list, click the applications to exclude from vulnerability compliance check, and they are automatically moved to the <number> Excluded Applications list.

In the <number> Excluded Applications list, click the applications to remove from the exclusion list.

Applications on the exclusion list are exempt from needing to install software patches within the time frame specified in FortiGate compliance rules to maintain compliant status and network access.

Applications on the list are not excluded from vulnerability scanning.