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title: What Are Root Asset Candidates? How Do You Select or Exclude Them?
description: Root asset candidates are neighboring root assets detected by Attaxion during a verified root asset scan and may potentially belong to your organization.
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# What Are Root Asset Candidates? How Do You Select or Exclude Them?

## Root asset candidates are neighboring root assets detected by Attaxion during a root asset scan that may potentially belong to your organization.

Attaxion continuously scans [added root assets](https://support.attaxion.com/how-to-add-and-verify-a-root-asset-in-attaxion?hsLang=en) for dependent assets. In the process, it often identifies neighboring root assets that may also belong to your organization. Within the platform, these assets are listed as *root asset candidates*, which you can either approve or decline.

To start managing root asset candidates, click **Management** from the menu on the left, and go to the **Root Asset Candidates** tab.![root-asset-candidates-1](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-1.png?width=670&height=335&name=root-asset-candidates-1.png)

In the table, you can see the list of root asset candidates with their names and asset types, as well as the second-level domain (SLD) with which the candidate is associated (if the candidate is a subdomain). For each candidate, you’ll also see the root asset from which the candidate was derived, together with any tags specified for it.

There is also a **Confidence** column that indicates Attaxion’s level of certainty about the association between an identified candidate and its corresponding previously added root asset, which may help you decide whether to include or exclude the candidate from scanning.  
![root-asset-candidates-2](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-2.png?width=670&height=335&name=root-asset-candidates-2.png)

You can sort the root asset candidate list by the columns mentioned above. 

Before accepting or declining a candidate, you may want to learn more about it. To do this, click on its name to open the asset candidate details. There, you can see the discovery methods Attaxion used and the path that led it to the candidate.![root-asset-candidates-3-graph](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-3-graph.png?width=670&height=316&name=root-asset-candidates-3-graph.png)

#### **Approving Root Asset Candidates**

When you’re ready to accept candidates, select one or more root asset candidates, click the **Approve** button, and choose **I’m sure, approve**. This action will designate the candidate as one of your root assets. 

![root-asset-candidates-47-approve.png](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-47-approve.png.png?width=670&height=142&name=root-asset-candidates-47-approve.png.png)

If, for some reason, you want to remove a newly approved root asset,[you can](https://support.attaxion.com/how-to-remove-a-root-asset-from-attaxion?hsLang=en)learn how to remove a root asset from Attaxion [here](https://support.attaxion.com/how-to-remove-a-root-asset-from-attaxion?hsLang=en).

#### **Declining Root Asset Candidates**

To exclude one or more root asset candidates and remove them from the list, select them, click the **Decline** button, and choose **I’m sure, decline**. This action will remove the asset from the root asset candidate list and place it in the **Archived Assets** tab.

![root-asset-candidates-5-decline](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-5-decline.png?width=670&height=191&name=root-asset-candidates-5-decline.png)

This bulk action can also be applied to all root asset candidates with the same SLD. To sort the list by SLD, click on the filter icon in the **SLD** column and search for the target SLD. 

![root-asset-candidates-5-sld](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-5-sld.png?width=670&height=335&name=root-asset-candidates-5-sld.png)

Then, you may select all or some of the subdomains under the selected SLD and click Approve or Decline.

![root-asset-candidates-6-buttons](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-6-buttons.png?width=670&height=174&name=root-asset-candidates-6-buttons.png)

Clicking **Approve** will prompt you to confirm by selecting **I’m sure, approve**. 

![root-asset-candidates-7-approve](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-7-approve.png?width=670&height=235&name=root-asset-candidates-7-approve.png)

When you click **Decline**, you will be prompted to either decline the selected asset candidates, decline all candidates from the same root asset, or decline all candidates from the same SLD. 

![root-asset-candidates-8-bulk-decline-sld](https://support.attaxion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/root-asset-candidates-8-bulk-decline-sld.png?width=670&height=446&name=root-asset-candidates-8-bulk-decline-sld.png)

 

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