Approved assessments accurately represent your security status at a specific point in time. For more information about how to use saved assessments in your audit process, see Save Assessments. An approved assessment represents the final step, or stage, in your audit process. Approved assessments typically contain your accepted and official security status in response to an audit.
When you approve an assessment, it is automatically locked and set to approved mode. In the approved mode, you can manually add or remove notes about an approved assessment by editing the Notes field on the Assessment Properties window. You can also continue to use the Change Log tab to review activity that previously occurred on this assessment. However, no other changes are allowed.
Use the approved mode to safely archive the assessment, preserving your findings and explanation notes.
Actions and Tasks
Compare Assessments
Allows you to compare the findings and settings of this assessment against another saved assessment or the original policy. You can compare different types of assessments (draft, published, or approved). When you compare this assessment against the original policy from which it was saved, you can identify changes that have occurred since the assessment had been saved.
Save as New Assessment
Allows you to create a new assessment that uses the same settings and audit data as the selected assessment. When you save a new assessment, SQL Secure lists the assessment in the Draft Assessment folder under the associated policy in the Policies tree.
View Assessment Settings
Allows you to view the configuration settings for this assessment, such as the security checks this assessment performed.