Project Administration

Management and configuration tasks that Seeker administrators can perform for projects.

About Seeker Projects

In Seeker, application security testing is managed in projects.

A regular project is associated with a single web application or an application subcomponent such as a microservice.

Many modern applications have a complex multitiered architecture, or implement the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) design pattern, and are composed of multiple subcomponents, such as microservices, front-end and backend layers, and more. Seeker enables you to optimize the analysis and handling of the results of security testing of such applications by supporting the composite project concept.

A composite project is a collection of regular projects, each of which is associated with a certain application subcomponent, and thus represents a whole application. For a microservices-based application, you can define one composite project that includes regular projects for each of the microservices.

Such setup enables you to assess the aggregated security posture of the whole application as well as that of each of its subcomponents, in particular:
  • Explore both aggregated and distributed views of the vulnerabilities detected in all included projects.
  • View the overal policy and standards compliance of the application as well as that of each included projects.
  • Leverage data flow maps by analyzing real-time interactions between various application subcomponents.
Note: A regular project can be included in more than one composite project. For example, a regular project that represents an authentication microservice can be included in two different composite projects.

Project Administration Tasks