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# How to Set Entities Out of Scope

In Attack Surface Management (ASM), setting up an Entity to be out of the scope of a Collection will suppress the Entity and other related Entities from being populated in the Collection. You can do this two ways:

* From individual [**Entities**](https://gtidocs.readme.io/docs/entities-guide)
* From [**Collections**](#settings-from-the-collections-page)

The following table characterizes Out of Scope settings:

<table cellspacing="0" style={{ marginLeft: "0", marginRight: "auto" }}>
   <thead>
      <tr>
         <th>Page</th>
         <th>Entity Type</th>
         <th>Out of Scope by Pattern</th>
         <th>Out of Scope Single Entity</th>
      </tr>
   </thead>
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td rowspan="4">Entities</td>
         <td><p>Url</p></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
         </td>
         <td><p><br /></p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><p>Domain</p></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
           <br />
         </td>
         <td><p><br /></p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><p>Subdomain</p></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
           <br />
         </td>
         <td><p><br /></p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><p>Other Entities</p></td>
         <td><br /></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
           <br />
         </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td rowspan="4">Collections</td>
         <td><p>Url</p></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
         </td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
         </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><p>Domain</p></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
           <br />
         </td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
         </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><p>Subdomain</p></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
           <br />
         </td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
         </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><p>Other Entities</p></td>
         <td><br /></td>
         <td>
           <div style={{ textAlign: "center" }}>✔</div>
           <br />
         </td>
      </tr>
   </tbody>
</table>

* **Out of Scope by Pattern:** ASM uses a regex pattern to define the scope of Entities suppressed based on the Entity added to the list.
* **Out of Scope Single Entity:** ASM will prevent the specified Entity from populating in the Collection.

## Settings from the Entities Page

As an example, we select the **DNS Record** tab from the [ASM Entities page](http://asm.advantage.mandiant.com/entities).

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step1_20240430.png)

Choosing the first Entity listed, **cms.hooverandstrong.com** displays the details of the Entity. On the details page, we select **Add Out Of Scope Entity** and click **Submit**. The [regex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) pattern defined by this submission is `\bcms\.hooverandstrong\.com\b`.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step2_20240430.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step3_20240430.png)

To confirm, we navigate to **Collections > Settings** for the relevant Collection and select the **Out of Scope** tab. Here, we find both the regex **Pattern** (`\bcms\.hooverandstrong\.com\b`) and **DnsRecord** Types listed for [cms.hooverandstrong.com](https://cms.hooverandstrong.com/).

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step4_20240430.png)

## Settings from the Collections Page

1. Navigate to **Collections > Settings** and select a Collection.
2. Click **+** **Add Out Of Scope Entity**.

   ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step5_20240430.png)
3. Select an Entity **Type** from the dropdown and type its **Value**.
4. Choose "**Only out of scope this entity"** (Single Entity), or **Anything this Entity contains will be out-of-scoped** (Pattern). This second option will add an additional Out of Scope line item to the Collection based on the regex pattern, as described above.

   ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step6_20240430.png)
5. Click **Submit**.

   These items are now listed under the **Out of Scope** tab of the Collection.

   ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/asm/images/outofscope_step7_20240430.png)