Sonatype CLM Server - Policy Management
In any given business, you could have hundreds, maybe even thousands of applications. Even if you are just getting started, it’s likely you have a handful of applications. However, as unique as applications can be, they tend to share some similarities.
For example, you might have applications that process or store sensitive information, maybe even personally identifiable information for your users. Since attacks are often aimed at these types of applications, you will definitely want to make sure your policies that identify high and critical threat security vulnerabilities are included during the evaluation of these types of applications.
Unfortunately, especially as the number of applications in your business increases, identifying an application by name may not be helpful. To address this, tags provide a way to quickly identify characteristics of an application.
Using specific text and color, tags can help group particular applications with similar attributes. While the tag can ultimately be anything you want, and attached to any application, you will want to take a much more thought-out approach, similar to what is recommended for labels.
As we will see later, in order to maximize the benefits tags can offer, you will want to take advantage of tag matching between policies and applications. For now though, let’s see how to create, apply, and delete tags.
