Working with Action Items

When a Security Best Practice finds a violation, the Compliance Blade automatically generates an Action Item. You can assign a due date to an Action Item and monitor corrective steps. By default, Action Items do not have a due date. When you complete the corrective steps, the Compliance Blade deletes the Action Item after the next scan.

To assign a due date for an Action Item:

1. Open Messages and Action Items > Action Items.
2. Select an Action Item.
3. In the Action Item Description section, click Schedule Now.

   If the Action Item already has an assigned due date, click Change to change it.

4. In the window that opens, enter or select a due date and then click OK.

To delete an action item:

1. Deactivate the applicable Security Best Practice.
2. Run a manual scan: Settings > Rescan.

Taking Corrective Action

The Action Items pane shows a helpful description for each Action Item, which gives suggestions to correct the related configuration settings. You can correct many issues quickly and easily. For some objects, you can double-click the object in the Relevant Objects section to open its configuration window in SmartDashboard.

You can also correct some issues from the command line. If an Action Item does not have a link to an object, use the description to guide you through the configuration steps.

Running Reports

Generate reports for status summary and details of Security Best Practices and Action Items.

• Security Overview - Shows the summary data included in the Overview pane:
  • Summaries of gateways
  • Summaries of regulatory standards
  • Detailed lists of Security Best Practices
  • Action items.
• By Regulation - Shows a summary of the Regulatory Requirements and a detailed list of the Security Best Practices included in each requirement.

To generate a report, select Reports on the Navigation tree and then select a report. The report shows in a pane with the report name as the title.

From the report pane, you can create reports in these output formats:

Exporting Data

You can copy data in a Compliance Blade table and paste it other applications, such as spreadsheets, word processors and text editors. This lets you save data for analysis and audits. You can select and copy one row, a group of rows or all of the rows in a table.

To copy one row or a group of rows:

1. Select one or more rows.
2. Right-click the rows and select Copy to Clipboard from the Options menu.
3. Paste the data into your application.

To copy all rows in a table:

1. Right click inside the table and select Select All from the Options menu.
2. Right-click again and select Copy to Clipboard from the Options menu.
3. Paste the data into your application.