Considerations for Tags with Rules

Automatic Application

Tenable Web App Scanning evaluates assets against tag rules in the following situations:

• When you add a new asset (via scan, connector import, or leveraging the Tenable Web App Scanning API), Tenable Web App Scanning evaluates the asset against your tag rules.

• When you create or update a tag rule, Tenable Web App Scanning evaluates your assets against the tag rule.

  Note: When you create or edit a tag rule, Tenable Web App Scanning may take some time to apply the tag to existing assets, depending on the system load and the number of matching assets.

• When you update an existing asset, Tenable Web App Scanning re-evaluates the asset and removes the tag if the asset's attributes no longer match the tag rules.

Manual Application

If you manually apply a tag that has been configured with rules, Tenable Web App Scanning excludes that asset from any further evaluation against the rules.