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We have already said what a baseline scan is in attack surface analyzer. A product scan is the scan that you would run on attack surface analyzer after the baseline scan. A product scan is needed after the baseline scan. The baseline scan will read the initial system configurations before the software was installed.

Attack surface analyzer was made to analyse the changes made to the operating system’s attack surface by software installation. In other words, it will tell you the differences between two states of the same system; before and after a software installation. To do that, the attack surface analyzer has to run two scans. The first scan generates the first snapshot of the system state while the second scan will take the snapshot of the system after the changes are made.

While Attack Surface Analyzer is a simple software, it can be a bit confusing with its report and simple interface to the software. The terms may be new for a user who is not fully aware about how attack surface is analyzed. This article talks about the process of analyzing the attack surface with this tool and also explains the importance of and concepts of the actions performed by this software.

Not all software can be installed on all the operating systems. We are not talking about installing a Linux software on the Windows platform, but you cannot install the software which is specifically made for Windows XP on Windows 7. Attack Surface Analyzer which is available for download was not made for Windows XP. You can only install it on the Windows Vista and above versions of Windows.

Installing Attack Surface Analyzer for Windows  7 is just like installing any other software on Windows 7.

You first have to download the installer file from the Microsoft website. Here is the link to download.

Now you have to double click the installer package.