Dismiss scan findings

The automated testing tools sometimes discover false positives or findings that aren’t actionable by your team. In these cases, you may want to dismiss the finding. You can restore dismissed findings at any time.

Dismissing findings that you can’t address helps the scan score better reflect your remediation progress. Note that dismissing findings will only affect your scan score if all findings for a particular rule are resolved or dismissed.

On this page:

• Dismiss findings
• Restore findings
• Check the activity log

Dismiss findings

To dismiss one or more findings:

1. Go to Websites/apps.
2. Select the website you'd like to review.
3. Choose Scans.
4. Select the scan you want to work with.
5. Select the rule description to open the list of findings.
6. Select the checkbox for all findings you want to dismiss. To dismiss all findings under a certain rule, select the checkbox in the header.
7. At the top of the list, select Dismiss.
8. Enter a reason for dismissing the finding. Note that other members of your workspace will be able to see the reason.
9. Select Dismiss.

Restore findings

To restore dismissed findings:

1. Go to Websites/apps.
2. Select the website you'd like to review.
3. Choose Scans.
4. Select the scan you want to work with.
5. Select the rule description to open the list of findings.
6. Select the checkbox for all dismissed findings you want to restore. To restore all findings under a certain rule, select the checkbox in the header.
7. At the top of the list, select Restore.
8. Enter a reason for restoring the finding. Note that other members of your workspace will be able to see the reason.
9. Select Restore.

Check the activity log

The scan finding activity log shows the details from each time a finding is dismissed or restored. The activity log includes:

• The activity (dismiss or restore).
• The date and time of activity.
• Who did the activity.

To a check a scan finding’s activity log:

1. Go to Websites/apps.
2. Select the website you'd like to review.
3. Choose Scans.
4. Select the scan you want to work with.
5. Select the rule description to open the list of findings.
6. Select the finding you want to check. Note that all findings with an activity log will have a comment bubble next to the finding status.
7. Select the comment bubble icon. An activity log pop-up window will open.