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# Override default Finding severities

> Customize Finding type severity at the global and environment level to match your security posture

Customize how Findings are prioritized by overriding default severities at the global or environment level.

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## Navigate to Finding types

Open the **Administration** app from the left sidebar and select **Finding Types** under the Findings section. This opens the **Configure Finding Overrides** view, where you can search for any Finding type by name or filter by severity.

![Administration app showing Finding Types list with severity filter and search](/_fern-img/472bb33213f2f10f2a964495e583ee1725a03e79f5581e1ef734c17878baf5ee.webp)

## Override default severity

Click into a Finding type to view its details: a description of the finding, remediation guidance, and an example Finding. The **Configure** section at the bottom contains two tabs: **Severity** for overriding the default risk level, and **Agent Triggers** for configuring auto-run Agents.

![Severity configuration showing Default Severity dropdown and per-environment override dropdowns](/_fern-img/8efe710a7461e9b305a3ef2b2c1529088eb010a117469dadbbd60b15f26eb634.webp)

The **Severity** tab controls the risk level assigned to new Findings of this type. It has three levels of control:

* **Default Severity**: Applies across all Environments unless a more specific override exists
* **Tag-level Overrides**: Applies to tagged groups of Environments, overriding the default
* **Environment Overrides**: Applies to a specific Environment, overriding both the default and any tag-level setting

More specific overrides always take precedence: Environment overrides beat tag overrides, and tag overrides beat the default.

To revert an override, click **Reset** next to the individual Environment or tag group you want to clear. To reset everything back to the Method default severity, use the top-level **Reset** button.

Your changes do not take effect until you click **Save** in the top-right corner of the page.

![Save confirmation dialog summarizing pending severity changes](/_fern-img/e7d246f1e022ca33fabacc274f00751a73013a5dd55d989a85a614bcd0ed3cd5.webp)

> **Note**
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> Severity overrides only affect newly discovered Findings. Existing open Findings keep their current severity until a Task run discovers the Finding again.

To configure which Agents launch automatically when Findings are discovered, see [Enable auto-running Finding Validation Agents](/guides/agents/enable-auto-running-finding-validation-agents).