Managing the workspace

As we have already seen in the previous chapters, workspaces are used to maintain various attack profiles without merging the results. Suppose that we are working on a single range and, for some reason, we need to stop our testing and test another range. In this instance, we would create a new workspace and use that workspace to test the new range to keep the results clean and organized. However, after we complete our work in this workspace, we can switch to a different workspace. Switching workspaces will load all the relevant data from a workspace automatically. This feature will help keep the data separate for all the scans made, preventing data from being merged from various scans.

To create a new workspace, navigate ...

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