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HawkScan firewall requirements

How to ensure that HawkScan can communicate with the StackHawk platform

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Written by Anthony Stinn
Updated over a year ago

Question:

What hosts and ports does HawkScan need access to in order to run scans and gather scan data?


Answer:

HawkScan authenticates to the StackHawk platform and uploads scan data to signed S3 URLs on AWS. It also directly accesses the application being scanned.


Requirements Summary

Endpoint

Port

auth.stackhawk.com

443

api.stackhawk.com

443

AWS S3 (IP range)

443

Target Application

variable

Detailed Requirements

auth.stackhawk.com

  • What is it?

    • HawkScan's authentication service

    • cnames to auth.prod.stackhawk.com

  • How to access it?

    • build an FQDN rule in the firewall to allow access auth.stackhawk.com on TCP destination port 443

api.stackhawk.com

  • What is it?

    • HawkScan's api service

    • cnames to api.prod.stackhawk.com

  • How to access it?

    • build an FQDN rule in the firewall to allow access api.stackhawk.com on TCP destination port 443

S3

  • What is it?

    • When HawkScan generates scan results, it uploads these to signed S3 URL's, where they become available at app.stackhack.com

  • How to access it?

Target Applications

  • What is it?

    • Applications being scanned by HawkScan

  • How to access it?

    • Docker-based scanning:

    • CLI-based scanning:

      • Make sure the system (e.g., laptop) that the CLI scanner is running from can reach the host and port of the application to be scanned


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