FAQ's

Quick Hits

• Attack Surface Analyzer requires administrator privileges to accurately gather system data.
• Due to limitations in functionality of Server Core available, only the command line option is likely to be fully supported.
• The tool has very high CPU and memory demands, and often takes a considerable amount of time to complete.
• Analyses should never be run on live production servers since it can severely degrade the performance of the system.
• Use of the file system or registry (on Windows systems) will add significant time to the collection and analysis.
• The older classic version of the tool produced .cab files which are not compatible with this rewritten version which stores results in a local SQLite db file.