Escalate or Share an Issue

If you want to notify a user about the misconfigurations for any resource, you can escalate the issue. Tenable Cloud Security sends an email alert for the misconfiguration.

Before you begin:

• Make sure that you configured in email alerts in Tenable Cloud Security. For more information, see Email Alerts.

To escalate an issue:

1. Access Tenable Cloud Security.

2. In the left navigation bar, click Findings.
   
   The Vulnerabilities page appears.

3. Click the Misconfigurations tab.

   The Misconfigurations page shows the failing policies and the number of impacted resources along with other details.

4. Do one of the following:

   • Select the required failing policy to view its details.
     

   • Use the Search box to search and select a specific failing policy.

   • Use the following filters to filter and select a specific failing policy:

     Filter	Description
     Projects	Filters failing policies by projects.
     Cloud	Filters failing policies by cloud accounts.
     Repositories	Filters failing policies by repositories.
     Severity	Filters failing policies by the severity of the failing policy.
     Violations	Filters failing policies by policy groups
     Source Type	Filters failing policies by IaC or Cloud.

   The policy details pane appears.

5. In the Impacted resources section, select the check box corresponding to the resource for which you want to raise an alert.
   

   Use the following filters to select the impacted resources:

   Filter	Description
   Resource type	Filters the impacted resources by resource types.
   Source	Filters the impacted resources by IaC or Cloud.
   Inference	Filters the impacted resources by inference.

6. Click Share.

   Tenable Cloud Security sends an email alert for the selected issue and a message confirms the escalation.