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Managing application risk
Follow this workflow to manage application security risks in your organization.
Step 3: Determining risks and prioritizing vulnerabilities
Learn how to determine risks and prioritize vulnerabilities identified in an application.
Prioritizing Vulnerabilities
Learn how to prioritize vulnerabilities identified in an application.
Editing multiple issues simultaneously

Managing application risk
Follow this workflow to manage application security risks in your organization.
- Step 1: Creating an application inventory
  Learn how to create an application inventory.
- Step 2: Testing applications for vulnerabilities
  Learn how to test vulnerabilities identified in an application.
- Step 3: Determining risks and prioritizing vulnerabilities
  Learn how to determine risks and prioritize vulnerabilities identified in an application.
  - Determining risk
    Now that management and security analysts have a comprehensive view of the applications across the enterprise, it's time to get a complete picture of the application security risk. Use formulas to create rules for automated application asset classification. The automated calculation of an application security risk rating is based on the application's description and discovered vulnerabilities.
  - Prioritizing Vulnerabilities
    Learn how to prioritize vulnerabilities identified in an application.
    - Workflow for issue triage
    - Filtering a list of security issues in an application
      When an application has many scans that discover many vulnerabilities, use filters on the preset issue attributes, such as Issue Severity, Issue Type, or Issue Status to help you reduce the list to a more manageable size.
    - Triaging issues in an application
      All issues are classified as 'new' by default. You can see an issue classification by viewing the issue status. If no issues display for an application, associate a security scan with the application. Otherwise, you must manage your issues from a report in the Scans view. If you move a scan job from one application to another, you won't lose any of your issue management changes.
    - Monitoring overdue issues
      Security analysts can see the number of applications that have overdue issues so that they can quickly calculate which issues or applications are out of compliance. AppScan Enterprise v9.0.3 includes an Overdue formula that can be modified or used as an example for creating complex formulas. If your organization must comply with the Payment Card Industry standard, you can add that to the formula. Or modify the formula so that if an issue is still marked New after 10 days, and it has a high severity, it is automatically overdue.
    - Editing multiple issues simultaneously
- Step 4: Remediating risks
  Learn how to remediate risks identified in an application.
- Step 5: Measuring progress and demonstrating compliance
  Learn how to measure progress and demonstrate compliance.

Editing multiple issues simultaneously

About this task

Procedure

In an application, select the issues that you want to edit.
In the Edit multiple issues dialog, enter or select the attribute values that you want to modify across those issues, and click Save.
Optional: You can also remove existing values by selecting the “Clear original content? check box beside an attribute, and then click Save.

Results

The edited issue attribute values are reflected in the About this Issue dialog and in the application list.