Execution of a Horizon3AI penetration test using ZPE Cloud
  • 13 Apr 2023
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Execution of a Horizon3AI penetration test using ZPE Cloud

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Article summary

ZPE Cloud's automation and orchastration capabilties provide an simple method to deploy Horizon3.ai agent to each Nodegrid appliance and to start regular pentests.

Requirements

  • Horizon3.ai account
  • ZPECloud.com or ZPEcloud.eu account
  • Nodegrid appliances which are managed by ZPE Cloud
  • Virtulisation license

For the installation of the Horizon3 agents follow the manual installation process. Installation and Execution of a Penetration Test with Horizon3

ZPE Cloud account setup

The installation process requires that one new configuration profile need to be uploaded to the customers ZPE Cloud account.

Download the following configuration profile:

horizon3_run_pentest.py

Upload of Horizon3 profiles

  • login to the customers ZPE Cloud account via
    • https://zpecloud.com or https://zpecloud.eu
  • Navigate to Profiles
    Horizon3ai - Profiles - Before
  • Click on ADD FROM FILE to upload the horizon3_run_pentest.py profile and provide the follwing details
SettingValueComment
NameHorizon3AI Run Pentest
DescriptionStarts a Horizon3AI Pentest
TypeScript
IMPORT FROM FILEselect the file horizon3_run_pentest.py
Custom CommandEnabled
Button NameRun Horizon3 Pentest

Horizon3ai - add profile run

Define Penetration Template to be used

When this step is skipped with the Horizon3.ai execute the default scan template

  • Navigate to Profiles
  • search for 'Horizon3AI Run Pentest'

Horizon3ai - search profile

  • select the Profile and click on EDIT
  • in the line template, provide a Horzion3AI scan profile. If no template is provide the default scan profile will be executed.

Horizon3ai - add profile run

Run a Penetration Test

  • Navigate to Devices
  • Click on Menu
  • Select the Nodegrid appliance which will run the Pentest
  • Click on RUN HORIZON3 PENTEST

Horizon3ai - Run Pentest

Schedule a Penetration Test

  • Navigate to Devices
  • Select the device which will run the pentration test by Schedule
  • Click on APPLY CONFIGURATION
  • Profide the following details
SettingValueComment
ConfigurationHorizon3AI Run Pentest
ApplySchedule
Select start dateDefault is now, adjust to a desired start day and time
RecurrentEnabled
FrequecyWeeklySet to to desired frequencey, like daily or weekly

Horizon3ai - Schedule

  • Click on SAVE to schedule the task

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