Integrating Acunetix 360 with Mattermost

Mattermost is an open-source, flexible, messaging platform that enables secure team collaboration. Mattermost is a Slack alternative and from an Acunetix 360 viewpoint its integration procedure works like Slack. A new incoming webhook is created as a Mattermost instance. It is then pasted into the Acunetix 360 Mattermost integration.

For further information, see What Systems Does Acunetix 360 Integrate With?.

How to Integrate Acunetix 360 with Mattermost

1. Go to Simple Incoming Webhook in Mattermost.
2. From the main menu, click Integrations, then Incoming Webhooks.
3. Click Add Incoming Webhook. The Add window is displayed.

4. Enter the Title (name) of the webhook
5. Enter the Description of the webhook. (The description can be up to 500 characters.)
6. From the dropdown, select the Channel to receive webhook payloads.
7. Click Save to create the webhook. The Incoming Webhooks window is displayed.

8. In the Webhook URL field, click Copy. (You will need this URL later.)
9. Log in to Acunetix 360.
10. From the main menu, click Integration, then New Integration.

11. From the Communication section, click Mattermost. The New Mattermost Integration window is displayed.

12. Copy and paste the WebHook Url you created in Mattermost into the WebHook URL field in Acunetix 360.
13. Click Create Sample Issue to confirm that Acunetix 360 can connect to the configured system and create a sample issue.

14. Click Save to save the integration.

How to Export Reported Vulnerabilities to Projects in Mattermost

There are several ways to send issues to Mattermost with Acunetix 360:

• Once notifications have been configured, you can configure Acunetix 360 to automatically send vulnerabilities after scanning has been completed (see How to Configure a Notification to Report Vulnerabilities to an Issue Tracking System).

• You can send one or more issues the Issues window:

• You must have Manage Issue permission,
• From the main menu, select Issues, then All Issues. The Issues window is displayed.
• Select one or more issues you want to send.
• Click Send To, then Mattermost.

• A popup is displayed, with a link to the issue you have sent to Mattermost. If there is an error, this information will be displayed instead.
• You can send an issue from the Recent Scans window:

• From the main menu, click Scans then Recent Scans.

• Next to the relevant scan, click Report. The report is displayed.
• Scroll down to the Technical Report section.
• From the list of detected vulnerabilities, click to select an issue and display its details.

• Click Send To, then Mattermost. If you have previously submitted this vulnerability to Mattermost, it will already be accessible. You cannot submit the same issue twice.