How to - Manage Allowlist Rules

Introduction

An Allowlist provides the option to explicitly allow some exceptions when dealing with alerts.

On some occasions, you might want to make an exception for a certain domain and/or alert violations, to temporarily not be taken into account when you check the compliance of ads or site pages within AdSecure. A good example of this would be when you are in the process of resolving a known threat or quality issue detected on a project that scans frequently. Applying an Allowlist Rule in such a case will allow you to save time to focus on new alert violations that may occur on the project, rather than having to repeatedly check alerts on the known issue you are in the process of resolving.

In this guide, we will further explain in detail how to:

  • Navigate to Allowlist Rules page
  • Create an Allowlist Rule
  • Delete an Allowlist Rule
  • Whitelist specific antivirus vendors from VirusTotal
  • The reporting of Allowlisted alerts

Navigate to Allowlist Rules section

You can navigate to the Allowlist Rules section via the navigation menu on the left side of the application.



Create an Allowlist Rule

To create a new Allowlist Rule, simply click on the "New Allowlist Rule" button at the top right corner of the screen.



A panel will slide-in from the right side of your screen.



Domain

  • Select 'All domains' or enter a specific domain.
  • When the option 'All domains' is selected, 1 or more Alert violations need to be selected from the drop-down list. When a specific domain is entered and no Alert violations are selected, the rule will apply to all Alert violations.
  • Choose the duration for which the rule will be active.

Scope

  • Select 'Project' or 'All analyses', to indicate whether the rule should apply only to analyses from a specific project, or to all the analyses. (Note: this means analyses from all sources, including API analyses).
  • When the option 'Project' is selected, you need to select a specific project.

Delete an Allowlist Rule

To delete an Allowlist Rule, click on the delete icon next to the rule.