Filtering from the Assessment Summary view

When a scan completes, you can look at its findings in the Assessment Summary view (this view opens by default in the Triage perspective). In this view, you can create a filter from the bar chart.

About this task

After a scan completes, the Assessment Summary view contains a graphical bar chart representation of findings. The view can be refined to display findings by vulnerability type, API, project, or file. When you select grouped findings in the Assessment Summary view, the findings table changes to display only those findings that have been selected in the Assessment Summary view.
Note: Filters that are applied outside of the Vulnerability Matrix view may not affect the Vulnerability Matrix view. The Vulnerability Matrix view Show the counts of filtered findings toolbar button must be selected for the filter to be reflected in the Vulnerability Matrix view.
Note: In AppScan® Source for Development (Visual Studio plug-in), this view is part of the Edit Filters window.

Procedure

  1. In the Assessment Summary view, change the graphical representation to suit your needs. For example, given an assessment that includes Validation.Required, Validation.EncodingRequired, and Cryptography.PoorEntropy vulnerability types, set the Chart Property to Vulnerability Type. This will display the findings by vulnerability type in a bar chart representation:
    Findings by vulnerability type in the Assessment Summary view
  2. To create a filter of Validation.Required vulnerability types, click the Validation.Required bar in the chart.
    Filtered findings in the Assessment Summary view
    Tip: Hold the mouse over the bar to see the number of vulnerabilities.

    The filtered results appear in the findings table:


    Validation.Required vulnerability type in Findings view
  3. The filtering actions also cause the Filter Editor view to populate with the filter rule settings of the selection that was made in the Assessment Summary view. This filter can be saved in the Filter Editor view (to learn about filter rule settings and saving filters, see Creating and managing filters in the Filter Editor view).
  4. To view the same filter results by API, set the Chart Property to API:
    Assessment Summary view with API chart property selected