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Viewing Outbreak Alerts

Viewing Outbreak Alerts

FortiGuard Outbreak Alerts provides key information about on-going cybersecurity attack with significant ramifications affecting numerous companies, organizations and industries.

Click Outbreak Alerts in the App Directory page to view the all the FortiGuard outbreak alerts detected. The following fields are displayed for each outbreak alert.

  • Severity: The level of risk associated with the attack.

  • Vulnerability: The name of the specific vulnerability detected. Click the vulnerability name to access the corresponding FortiGuard page for more details.

  • Detected on: The date and time when the outbreak was first detected.

  • Applications: A list of applications that are affected by the vulnerability.

  • CVEs: A list of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) related to the outbreak. Click on any CVE to view the corresponding page on the NVD (National Vulnerability Database) website.

Note: Outbreak alerts is currently supported only for SCA and Container scanners.


Viewing Outbreak Alerts

Viewing Outbreak Alerts

FortiGuard Outbreak Alerts provides key information about on-going cybersecurity attack with significant ramifications affecting numerous companies, organizations and industries.

Click Outbreak Alerts in the App Directory page to view the all the FortiGuard outbreak alerts detected. The following fields are displayed for each outbreak alert.

  • Severity: The level of risk associated with the attack.

  • Vulnerability: The name of the specific vulnerability detected. Click the vulnerability name to access the corresponding FortiGuard page for more details.

  • Detected on: The date and time when the outbreak was first detected.

  • Applications: A list of applications that are affected by the vulnerability.

  • CVEs: A list of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) related to the outbreak. Click on any CVE to view the corresponding page on the NVD (National Vulnerability Database) website.

Note: Outbreak alerts is currently supported only for SCA and Container scanners.