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title: "Marking Findings as Accepted in SAFE"
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updated: 2025-06-17T13:13:24Z
published: 2025-06-17T13:13:24Z
canonical: "docs.safe.security/marking-findings-as-accepted-in-safe"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Marking Findings as Accepted in SAFE

## Introduction

SAFE allows customers to accept the risk associated with specific findings. This feature is useful when organizations have justified business or technical reasons not to remediate a particular finding — such as compensating controls, business dependencies, or false positives.

> [!WARNING]
> Accept Findings is currently available only for first-party findings. Support for accepting third-party findings is not available yet.

## What is "Mark as Accepted"?

Mark as Accepted is an action that lets you:

- Acknowledge the presence of a finding
- Exclude it from SAFE’s risk scoring (based on reason)
- Document the business rationale behind the acceptance.

![AF 1.png](https://cdn.document360.io/23dc20b8-a989-48c0-8653-f1d3e4abc734/Images/Documentation/AF%201.png)

## Functional Capabilities

- **Acceptance Reason:** When accepting a finding, you must select a reason from one of the predefined categories:

This ensures clarity on why a risk was accepted and helps in downstream reporting and risk governance.
  - **Compensating Controls** - Excluded from risk calculation
  - **False Positive** - Excluded from risk calculation
  - **Won’t** **Fix** - Included in risk calculation
- **Expiry Date**: You can optionally set an expiry date while marking a finding as accepted. Once expired, the finding automatically reverts to active. This prevents long-term oversight of risks that should be re-evaluated periodically.
- **Mandatory Rationale**
  - A short explanation must be provided when accepting a finding.
  - The rationale for transparency and auditability is visible on the Findings page.
- **Global Acceptance Option**
  - You can accept the finding globally — i.e., across all groups in the organization.
- **Accepting Finding in Bulk:** On the findings page, you can select multiple findings and accept them.
- **View Accepted Findings**
  - Navigate to the Accepted Findings tab or filter to quickly review all accepted findings, reasons, and expiry.
- **Reset Status (Unaccept)**
  - You can reverse the action by selecting “Reset Status”, which returns the finding to its original (active) state.

![AF2.png](https://cdn.document360.io/23dc20b8-a989-48c0-8653-f1d3e4abc734/Images/Documentation/AF2.png)

> [!WARNING]
> **Note**
> 
> If a finding is accepted for all groups, using “Reset Status” will unaccept it across all groups.

## Impact on Scoring

- Findings marked as Compensating Controls or False Positive are excluded from SAFE’s scoring engine and treated as Not Applicable (NA).
- Findings marked as Won’t Fix remain included in scoring to reflect residual risk.

## Accept a Finding

To Accept a Single Finding:

1. Navigate to Finding Center.
2. Click on any finding to open its details page.
3. Click the Mark as Accepted” button.
4. Select a reason.
5. [Optional] Set an expiry.
6. Enter a rationale.
7. [Optional] Mark the “Apply for all groups” checkbox to accept it globally.
8. Click Submit.

## To Accept Findings in Bulk

1. On the Findings List page, select one or more findings using the checkboxes.
2. Click the three-dot options menu in the top-right.
3. Click the Accept Findings button.
4. Select the reason, expiry, and rationale (applies to all selected findings).
5. Optionally select “Apply for all groups”.
6. Click Submit.

![AF3.png](https://cdn.document360.io/23dc20b8-a989-48c0-8653-f1d3e4abc734/Images/Documentation/AF3.png)