Every finding for every issue type on your Scorecard has status that reflects whether you are addressing it and whether it impacts your score:
- Open
- Under Review
- Approved
- Declined
- Decayed
What is a decayed finding?
An unresolved finding decays when SecurityScorecard has not seen it resurface within a certain period of time. A decayed finding no longer impacts your score.
Note: If you remove an asset with a finding from your Digital Footprint, the status for that finding becomes Decayed. If the assets reappears on your Digital Footprint, the finding also reappears.
When do issue findings decay?
- Some issue types do not decay. For any issue in the table with a decay window of None, click the numeral next to it to read a footnote explaining why it does not decay.
- For details on the decay periods for Patching Cadence Issue types, please refer to the KB article Patching Cadence Issue Resolution.
For details on how our scoring works, see our Scoring Methodology Whitepaper.