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# Vulnerability Assessment

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| **Role Availability** | **Read-Only** | **Investigator** | **Analyst** | **Manager** |

USM Anywhere delivers <Tooltip tip="Vulnerability assessment uses active network vulnerability scanning and continuous vulnerability monitoring to provide one of the five essential capabilities.">vulnerability assessment</Tooltip> as part of a complete package of security <Tooltip tip="Process of collecting all device status and event information and processing normalized events for evidence of vulnerabilities, possible attacks, and other malicious activity.">monitoring</Tooltip> and management capabilities for efficient threat detection. USM Anywhere does this to improve security in your network, you first need to know what is vulnerable.

This topic discusses these subtopics:

[About Vulnerability Assessment](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/about-vuln-assess)

[System Settings for Authenticated Scans](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/system-settings-auth-scan)

[Managing Credentials in USM Anywhere](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/credentials)

[Performing Vulnerability Scans](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/perf-vulnerability-scans)

[Viewing Vulnerabilities Scan Results](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/viewing-scan-results)

[Vulnerabilities List Columns](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/vulns-list-columns)

[Vulnerabilities Views](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/views)

[Report Templates in Vulnerabilities](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/report-templates)

[Searching Vulnerabilities](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/searching-vuln)

[Standard and Advanced Modes on Vulnerabilities](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/standard-advanced-modes)

[Viewing Vulnerabilities Details](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/viewing-vulns-details)

[Applying Actions to Vulnerabilities](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/actions-to-vulns)

[Available Remediation Patches for Vulnerabilities](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/remediation-steps)

[Labeling the Vulnerabilities](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/labeling-vulnerabilities)

[Create a Vulnerabilities Report](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/report-templates)

[USM Anywhere Scans Best Practices](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/scans-best-practices)

[LevelBlue Vulnerability Scanner Guide](/documentation/usm-anywhere/usm-anywhere-user-guides/vulnerability-assessment/level-blue-vulnerability-scanner-guide)

[Deployment Guides for Tenable Scanners](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/deployment-guides-for-tenable-scanners)

[LevelBlue Vulnerability Scanner FAQs](/documentation/usm-anywhere/user-guide/vulnerability-assessment/level-blue-vulnerability-scanner-faqs)