Remediation Scanning with Cloud InsightVM

I am new to Rapid7 and InsightVM so I may just be misunderstanding something.

We just moved our InsightVM from on-prem to the Cloud. It appears we no longer have the ability to do on demand/remediation scanning through sites. I do not have local scan engines deployed on my network, as we thought we would be able to do all scanning using our Cloud instance. Am I incorrect?

I’ve gone back and forth with support who is telling me it’s a firewall issue but our firewall is open to our cloud instance. We have no problems with normal daily scanning.

Thank you.

Is your scan schedule pointing to the correct scan engine ? In the past I have fallen foul of this.
So long as you have a route from your cloud instance back to your on-prem environment which you appear to have you should be ok. The firewall is evidently already allowing the traffic.
I would deploy a scan engine or two though. Will take the load off the console.

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I have never used this type of a model, however… I do not think you scan your internal Assets without having a LOCAL Scan Engine on Prem. You can then connect your Cloud instance to these.. thats my understanding…

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There should be a local scan engine. When you had a local instance of the console, that included the console and scan engine. Once you migrated to cloud, you no longer have the ability to scan with the new console/engine. Spin up a local engine, connect it into the console (Making sure connectivity is allowed) and you should be good to proceed.

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This is was I suspected, thank you for confirming!

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