Multiple report format options are available when downloading reports and account data, such as your exported domain assets list and host assets list. See a description of report format options below. Note that not all formats are available for all reports.
Your report will be saved as a PDF document. If applicable, the service will automatically expand individual host details before saving your report.
The option "Add Secure Distribution" appears to Managers and Unit Managers when the Secure PDF Distribution option is enabled in subscriptions with Report Share. When generating a report in PDF format, you have the option to encrypt the report with a password and securely distribute it to users via an email distribution list. See Securely Distribute PDF Reports for more information.
Your report, including images, will be compressed and saved as a ZIP file.
The Online Report format (available for the patch report) provides a feature-rich user interface including numerous ways to navigate through report content. HTML content is displayed in your browser using Ext, a client-side Java framework. A patch report in Online Report format cannot be downloaded to your local file system.
(Supported with Windows Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.) Your report will be saved as a Web archive with a .mht extension. All images and links from the report will be embedded in the MHT file. Note that images are saved in base64 encoding, which will likely cause the MHT file to be larger than the same report in HTML.
Your report will be saved in XML format. This feature is useful if you want to use the report data in scripts. When viewing the XML output, click the plus sign (+) to expand a section for more information or the minus sign (-) to collapse a section. See Report DTDs to learn how to access DTDs and see the DTD file names for the various reports that can be downloaded in XML.
For all vulnerability scan reports, the XML output sorts hosts by IP address, regardless of the "Sort by" option set in the scan report template, and all vulnerability details are included (Threat, Impact, Solution, Compliance, Exploitability, Associated Malware, Result).
For vulnerability scan results and for a vulnerability scan report generated with a manual scan template, no filters are applied to the XML output. Note that scan results can be downloaded to XML only from the scan history list. The DTD for these reports is scan-1.dtd. Refer to the document Vulnerability Scan Results in XML (PDF) for a description of the DTD associated with the XML output.
For a vulnerability scan report generated with an automatic scan template, filters set in the scan report template are applied to the XML output. For example, if you've filtered out all severity 1 vulnerabilities, then those vulnerabilities are not included in the XML. Note that trending information, business risk information and final CVSS scores are not included. The DTD for automatic scan reports is asset_data_report.dtd.
For web application scan results in XML format, the DTD is webapp_scan.dtd. Refer to the document Web Application Scan Results in XML (PDF) for a description of the DTD associated with the XML output.
Your report will be saved in CSV format. The reporting engine sends the CSV data encoded in UTF-8 format. This option is especially useful if you want to import report data into databases and spreadsheets, such as Microsoft Access and Excel.
Note that you may need to import the CSV data into your database or spreadsheet with encoding set to UTF-8 to properly display special characters, such as Japanese and French characters. For example, to do this in Microsoft Excel, select Data > Import External Data > Import Data and then browse to your downloaded CSV file and click Open. Select the Unicode (UTF-8) file origin and then follow the prompts to complete the import process. For more information about importing CSV data, see your third-party documentation.