Projects and Connections

On the Projects & Connections page, you can view the details of projects, repositories, cloud accounts, Kubernetes clusters, and pipelines.

View Projects and Connections

1. From the home page, click the Projects & Connections tab.

   The Projects & Connections page appears and shows the following tabs:

   Tab	Description
   Projects	The Projects tab lists the following information: Projects — List of all projects. Resources — The total number of IaC and cloud resources in that project. Hover over the total resources to view the number of IaC and cloud resources. Vulnerabilities — Vulnerabilities detected during the Agentless Assessment of AWS EC2 instances and Azure virtual machines. For more information, see View Misconfigurations. Misconfigurations — The number of non-compliant policies for resources in that project. Drifts — The number of IaC and cloud drifts. For more information, see Set up Drift Analysis. Scan status — The scan have one of the following statuses: Canceled — Scan was canceled when it was running. Completed with exceptions — Scan completed, but with errors. To re-assess or rescan a project that is completed with errors: In the Projects tab, click the icon on the Status column. The Exceptions dialog box appears with the list of failed resources grouped by Account ID. You can view and sort the exceptions in each cloud account by Failed resource type, Resource group (for Azure), Region (for AWS), and Resource count. Click Re-assess to rescan the selected cloud account or Re-assess all to rescan all failed cloud accounts. Re-assessing scans the following if the scan has exceptions across these parameters: Accounts, projects, and subscriptions Resource type Regions or Resource group Failed — Scan has failed. In progress — Scan is in progress. Not scanned — Project is empty and has not been scanned. Successful — Scan is completed successfully. To manage projects, see Manage Projects.
   Repositories	The Repositories tab shows the list of repositories, folder path, all projects associated with the repository, the number of misconfigurations, and the resources they contain. To manage repositories, see Manage Repositories.
   Cloud Accounts	The Cloud Accounts tab lists all cloud accounts, management unit, the project they are linked to, the number of resources in each account, the number of failing policies, and the current status of the scan. Tenable Cloud Security allows you to discover cloud accounts automatically. For more information, see Discover Cloud Accounts.
   K8s Clusters	The Kubernetes Clusters tab lists all the clusters, their parent project, the number of failing policies, resources, and the associated cloud account.
   Pipelines	The Pipelines tab lists all the pipeline repositories, the repository owner, the number of failures, and the last run status of the scan.

Manage Projects

To filter a project:

1. Click the Filters icon to open the Filter Projects box.

2. Select the following filters as needed.

   Filter	Description
   Cloud provider	Filters the list by cloud providers — AWS, Azure, and GCP.
   Cloud accounts	Filters the list by cloud accounts.
   Scan status	Filters by the scan status.

3. Click Apply.

   Tenable Cloud Security shows the list of projects after applying the filter criteria.

To start a scan for a project:

You can run two types of scans in Tenable Cloud Security:

• IaC scan — Connect a repository to the project to run an IaC scan.

• Cloud scan — Connect cloud accounts to the project and run cloud scans.

To edit a project:

1. Click the project that you want to edit.

   The project details pane appears.

2. Click the icon and edit any of the following configurations for the project:

   • Name of the project

   • Repositories

   • Cloud accounts

   • K8s Clusters

   • Active policy groups

   • Alerts

   • Exclude resources

   • Exclude drifts for selected resources

To edit policies associated with a project:

1. Select the check box next to the project that you want to edit.

   Tenable Cloud Security enables the More Actions button.

2. Click More Actions > Manage Policies.

   The Edit policy group window appears.
   
   

3. Select the required policies from the list.

4. Click Save.

   A confirmation message appears.

5. Confirm the policy additions.

   Tenable Cloud Security initiates the scan with the newly added policies.

To delete a project:

1. Select one or more projects that you want to delete.

   Tenable Cloud Security enables the More Actions button.

2. Click More Actions > Delete.

   A confirmation message appears.

3. Click Yes.
   
   

   A confirmation message appears and Tenable Cloud Security deletes the project. When Tenable Cloud Security deletes a project, Tenable Cloud Security deletes all findings associated with the project.

To set or reset a baseline:

Tenable Cloud Security allows you to set a baseline for a project by recording the time stamp of the scan when the baseline is set. A baseline allows you to compare and identify cloud-to-cloud drifts between scans. For more information, see Set a Baseline for a Project.

Manage Repositories

To start a scan for a repository:

1. Select the repository that you want to scan.

2. In the Scans column, click Run Scan.

   When the scan completes, a confirmation message appears.

To assign or unassign a repository to a project:

1. Do one of the following:

   • To assign or unassign a project for a single repository:

     1. In the row corresponding to the repository to which you want to edit the assigned projects, click > Manage project.

   • To assign multiple repositories:

     1. Select one ore more repository that you want to assign.

        Tenable Cloud Security enables the More Actions button.

     2. Click More Actions > Manage projects.

        The Projects dialog box appears.

2. Select the required project to assign to the repository or clear the check box corresponding to a selected project to unassign the repository.
   

3. Click Save.
   Tenable Cloud Security assigns the selected repository to the project.

To delete a repository:

1. Do one of the following:

   • To delete a single repository:

     1. In the row corresponding to the repository that you want to delete, click > Delete repository.

   • To delete multiple repositories:

     1. Select one ore more repository that you want to delete.

        Tenable Cloud Security enables the More Actions button.

     2. Click More Actions > Delete repositories.

   A confirmation message appears

2. Click Yes to confirm.

   Tenable Cloud Security deletes the repository and its associated data.