Understanding Impact Factors and Groups - PAS Integrity Software Suite - 7.3 - Help - Intergraph

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Impact factors and groups let you refine weighting of items that impact risk scores to help you manage vulnerability exposure. For example you might have an important process that is critical to your environment. You can create an impact factor to apply to endpoints that rely on this process.

The Integrity Vulnerability Management module delivers five default impact factors and the ability to add up to five custom impact factors. The Vulnerabilities impact factor is enabled by default and always on. You can enable and disable other impact factors and set the default score Integrity uses for each. For more information, see Configuring Impact Factor Settings.

Groups work together with impact factors to refine impact factor weighting for specific endpoints. For example you might have a set of systems that are always on, in high demand, and critical to your environment. You can create a group to apply the same set of impact factors to all members of the group.

You can group items for many reasons:

  • Apply custom impact factors

  • Override default impact factor scores

  • Apply the same set of impact factors to similar items

You define groups as needed, and there is no limit to the number of groups you can create. For more information, see Configuring Group Settings.

Review risk scores and the effects that impact factor and group assignments have on them on the Browse and Endpoint Risk Analysis windows. You can assign multiple endpoints to groups on the Browse window. For more information, see Assigning Endpoints in Bulk to Groups.You can see and edit some impact factor and group settings on the Endpoint Risk Analysis window. For more information, see Fine-tuning Impact Factor and Group Settings and Viewing Endpoint Risk Analysis.