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Single Application | You are taken direct to the Application landing page:
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Multiple Applications | You are offered a choice of which Application to access: When the Application is selected, you will be taken direct to the selected Application's landing page (as shown above). If you are not authorized to access the selected Application, a "You are not authorized to access any applications" message will be displayed. If you would like to choose different Application, you can do so using the dropdown list box located on the menu bar: If you cannot locate the Application you require, you can use the search field to search for the Application - the search is instant - entering a single character will start the search mechanism: |
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The Application landing or "home" page is displayed after a successful login:
It consists of multiple tiles used to display data and information from the most recent snapshot of the selected Application:
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- the number of Violations or Critical Violations in the Application (the display depends on whether only Critical Violations or ALL Violations are being displayed (see Data Filtering on Critical Violations))
- the number of Rules in the Application that have been triggered during an analysis/snapshot (this figure includes default CAST AIP Rules and also custom rules with IDs above 1,000,000)
- the number of Critical Rules in the Application that have been triggered during an analysis/snapshot
- clicking this tile will take you directly to the Risk investigation view (this can also be accessed by clicking the button available in the sidebar).
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All these tiles require that the extension "Quality Standards Mapping" is installed BEFORE a snapshot is generated. Security standard tag filter is applicable for quality rules table and not for technical criteria table. So the displayed violation numbers in Security tag tile will match only with the quality rules table. To filter the technical criteria table user can select desired assessment model from the "Assessment model” drop-down. In versions ≥ 2.11.0, Tag specific tiles are not available. |
Various additional tiles are displayed as follows:
- these display the number of Violations or Critical Violations in the Application for all the rules that are tagged with a specific tag (the display depends on whether only Critical Violations or ALL Violations are being displayed (see Data Filtering on Critical Violations))
- Clicking on any of these tiles navigates to the Risk investigation view (this can also be accessed by clicking the button available in the sidebar) with the specific tag selected at the top of the table - therefore filtering and displaying only rules that have this tag. "All Rules" will be selected in the Technical Criteria table and the list of rules displayed in the right hand panel are those that correspond to the selected tag.
No applicable rules
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Enabling / disabling the Critical Violations filter will effect the violation count displayed in these tiles:
Technologies Overview tile
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In versions ≥ 2.11.0, enabling/disabling the violation filter will affect the violation count displayed in the following tile: |
Technologies Overview tile
- the total number of Violations or Critical Violations in the current Application per specific technology - in other words, the total number of times a Rule or Critical Rule has been violated by an object in the Application for that specific technology (the display depends on whether only Critical Violations or ALL Violations are being displayed (see Data Filtering on Critical Violations))
- Clicking this tile will take you directly to the Risk investigation view with the corresponding technology highlighted in the technology drop down (this can also be accessed by clicking the button available in the sidebar).
- Drill down click option is disabled if the tile displays "N/A" Violations/Critical Violations.
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Clicking the tile will take you directly to the Health Measure in the Risk Investigation view (see Security Dashboard - GUI for more information), however, the Risk Investigation view will only show added and removed violation information. Any Health Measure, Technical Criterion or Rule where the number of Added and/or Removed violations is 0, will not be visible. A message will reflect this:
ISO-5055 Tile
The ISO-5055 extension is supported with full functionality. The ISO-5055 tile has been added to automatically display ISO-5055 data, with full drill down capability.
Drilling down through this tile will take you to the Risk Investigation view, where the focus will be set to the ISO-5055 Assessment Model (1) showing only the ISO-5055 metrics (2):
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All industry standard tiles (ISO-5055, CISQ, OWASP and MIPS) will display non-critical violation counts by default: they are not impacted by the critical violation switch. |
Configuring Assessment Model drop-down
In versions ≥ 2.11.0, user can add new industry standards to the assessment model drop-down by configuring ed.json file.
Application Components tile
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The Advanced Search feature can be accessed using the icon in the left hand menu:
Enabling the Advanced Search feature
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This indicates that a "violations index" (on which the feature relies) has not yet been generated. To generate the index the following methods are available:
Using the "Diagnostic" GUI |
Use the following URL to access the Diagnostic page:
This provides an indication of the violations index status based on the "domain":
In the following example the index has never been generated since the status is set to "toCreate": Click to enlarge To generate the index, click the Create/Update Index button. During generation the status "Indexing" will be displayed and on completion, the status will change to "upToDate": Click to enlarge | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Using the RestAPI |
Use the RestAPI client:
Using the following URI with a PUT will generate the index (where <domain> is more than likely set to AED, unless you have custom domains):
Then use the same URI with a GET will show the index status: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Generating the index when the web application starts | This method will force the violations index to be generated if its status is toUpdate (i.e. the index exists but is out-of-date because a new snapshot has been computed since the index creation) every time the web application is started, i.e.:
Edit the following file with a text editor:
Set the following configuration to true:
Save the file. Next time the web application is started the index will be generated. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Using a custom batch file |
This method is to be used when you have a configuration in the domains.properties file - i.e. multiple "domains". The custom batch will generate the violations index for all the domains configured in the domains.properties file. Create the following batch files in the %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\<dashboard>\WEB-INF folder an then run the launch.bat file to start the index generation:
In the following file (titi.bat), you need to modify the line starting curl to match your environment:
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Note that following the generation of a new snapshot, the violations index status will change to toUpdate, therefore CAST recommends regenerating the index to take into account the data available in the new snapshot. |
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When the feature is accessed and the violations index has been generated, the following will be displayed:
Left hand panel | The left hand panel provides a set of filters that can be used to narrow down the search cope. Filters are explained in XXXX. | ||||||||||||||
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Right hand panel | The right hand panel list the results of the search. Key points:
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Using filters for the Advanced Search
The filters available in the left hand panel enable the search scope to be limited. The following filters can be enabled by expanding the section and selecting with a tick:
Criteria or Rules | Restrict the scope via a Health Measure, Technical Criterion or Rule (or a combination). Displayed results are union of selected Criteria results, with duplicate violations omitted. Sorting is disabled on this section. |
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Weight | Restrict the scope via the weight of the rule in its parent Technical Criterion. |
Criticality | Restrict the scope via the criticality of the rule (Critical or Non Critical). |
Violation Status | Restrict the scope to the violation status in the current snapshot: Added, Updated, Unchanged. Displayed results are an OR of selected violation status results and AND of other filters selected values (eg : Criteria or rules, Technologies ,Transactions , Critical ,Module) with duplicate violations omitted. Violation status remains selected even after navigating to other views and coming back to Advanced search. |
Transactions | Restrict the scope to objects that are classed as transactions. |
Technologies | Restrict the scope to the technologies that are present in the current snapshot. Displayed results are an OR of selected technologies results and AND of other filters selected values (eg : Criteria or rules, Modules ,Transactions , Critical ,Violation status) with duplicate violations omitted. |
Modules | Restrict the scope to a module in the current snapshot. Displayed results are an OR of selected module results and AND of other filters selected values (eg : Criteria or rules, Technologies ,Transactions , Critical ,Violation status) with duplicate violations omitted. Module remains selected even after navigating to other views and coming back to Advanced search. |
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Note that an indicator will show how many filters have been selected: |
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