Guide: Manage and prioritize automated findings for a digital asset

On this page: 

• Where can I find consolidated automated findings?
• Go to Digital assets findings page
• Filter and prioritize the findings
• Remove filters
• Understand filters for your consolidated digital asset findings
• Dismiss one or more findings
• Create a task to start fixing a finding
• Switch to the manual evaluation findings

Where can I find consolidated automated findings?

Automated findings are generated each time a scan or monitor runs. The Digital asset findings page consolidates all of these findings across all scans and monitors into a single, actionable view. Instead of downloading each report separately to work on your findings, you can now view and manage all automated findings in one place.

On the Findings page, you can:

• View and manage all automated findings for a digital asset, regardless of when they were reported.
• Apply filters to prioritize the findings (for example, by Severity, Status, or Testing tool).
• Dismiss one or more selected findings, if they are not linked to a task.
• Select a finding and create a linked task, to start tracking the remediation work for this finding.

Go to the Findings page

The page lists all digital asset findings for a scanned asset.  

 To display the Findings page for a digital asset:

1. Go to Digital assets.
2. Select the digital asset for which you'd like to view all automated findings.
3. Choose Findings. The Findings page opens.  

Apply filters to refine your findings

Use filters to customize and narrow down the list of findings to what matters the most. Find the issues you need to fix first, and then proceed to resolve them efficiently from one place. 

By default, when you open the page initially the following filtering options are applied:

• Testing tool: Your default testing tool.
• Severity: Critical 
• Status: Open, Re-opened

Before you modify these default options, decide what you want to look for, and then apply the filters accordingly. For example, you might want to list high severity findings that have been reopened, have tasks linked to them, and originate from the Access Engine testing tool. 

• Testing tool: Access Engine
• Task: Linked
• Severity: High
• Status: Re-opened

To apply filters to your findings:

1. On the Findings page, select Filters. A new page opens.
2. Select or enter the filters you want to apply. Refer to Filters for your digital asset findings.
3. Choose Apply filters. The list of findings is updated.

Remove filters

To remove one or more filters for your digital asset findings: 

1. On the Findings page, select Filters. A new page opens.
2. Remove the filters as follows:
   • Clear the checkbox next to the filter you want to remove.
   • Delete the filter value from one of the text fields.
3. Choose Apply filters. 

To clear all the filters in bulk:  

• On the Findings page, select Clear filters. 

Note that at least one testing tool is always selected. 

Understand filters for your consolidated digital asset findings

Decide how you want to group and search for findings. Map these requirements to the filters available at the digital asset Findings page. Select the filters and apply them. 

Dismiss findings from the digital asset Findings page

You might want to dismiss findings that aren’t actionable by your team. You can also restore dismissed findings.  For details, refer to Dismiss scan findings or restore them.  

Note: You can't dismiss a finding that's linked to a task. You can't restore a dismissed finding until you display it again in the list of findings. Go to Filters, select Dismissed, and select Apply filters.  

Create a task to start fixing a finding

You can select a finding and create a task for it. To learn more about tasks, refer to Create a task.

To create a task from the Findings page: 

1. On the Findings page, select the checkbox for the finding for which you want to create a task. 
2. Select the checkbox next to each finding you want to create a task for. You can also select all findings on the page by selecting the checkbox at the top of the list.
3. Select Create task. The Create task panel opens. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.
4. On the Task details tab, choose a project for your task and make sure that all other details are correct. You can also create a new project.
5. On the Rule description page, enter the rule you want to associate with this task.
6. Select Create task.

Switch to the manual evaluation results

To switch to manual evaluation results, select the Digital evaluations link at the top of the Findings page.