Platform Guide
Notifications
CyfroSec delivers real-time security notifications as events happen across your infrastructure - scans completing, vulnerabilities detected, assets discovered, and more. Notifications arrive instantly via a live connection to the platform without needing to refresh the page.
Where Notifications Appear
The bell icon in the top-right header toolbar is the primary notification indicator.
| State | Appearance |
|---|---|
| No unread notifications | Muted grey bell, no badge |
| Unread (Low/Normal priority) | Blue bell with count badge |
| Unread (High priority) | Amber bell with count badge |
| Unread (Critical priority) | Red pulsing bell with count badge |
The badge shows the number of unread notifications, capped at 99+. Click the bell to go to the full notification history page.
Toast Notifications
New notifications appear as toast cards in the top-right corner of the screen as they arrive. Up to 3 toasts are shown at once. Each toast shows:
- 1Priority badge (Critical / High / Normal / Low)
- 2Notification title and message (up to 3 lines)
- 3Which account group the event came from
- 4A 5-second countdown progress bar before auto-dismiss
- 5An × button to dismiss immediately
Toast Notifications are ephemeral — dismissing one does not remove the notification from the history page, and auto-dismissed notifications are not automatically marked as read.
The Notifications Page
Navigate to the full history by clicking the bell icon or going to Notifications in your user menu.
Table View
The notifications table shows all notifications received in your current session with the following columns:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Priority | Critical / High / Normal / Low badge |
| Title | Notification title with a type icon |
| Type | Event type (e.g., "Scan Completed") |
| Source | The account group or agent that produced the event |
| Time | Relative timestamp (e.g., "2 minutes ago") |
| Status | New (unread) or Read badge |
Click any notification row to open the detail drawer for that notification and mark it as read.
Notification Detail Drawer
Clicking a notification row opens a drawer with the full event detail:
- 1Full message text
- 2Status flags: Severity level, whether attention is required
- 3Event type and exact timestamp
- 4Account group and organisation context
- 5Scan context: test name, test ID, test type, agent name, agent ID
- 6Severity summary: Breakdown of finding counts by severity (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
- 7Top findings: Up to 5 vulnerability findings from the event, each showing host, port, protocol, service, severity, CVE ID, and CVSS score
- 8View Full Details button links to the full results detail page if available
Filtering
Priority tabs (above the table): Filter by All, Critical, High, Normal, or Low. Each tab shows a count of matching notifications.
Email Notifications
For certain high-priority events, CyfroSec also sends an email notification to the account group admins. Email notification delivery is configured server-side. There is no feature available currently to configure which events trigger emails.
Important: Session-Scoped History
Notification history is held in memory for the current browser session only. Notifications are not loaded from the server when you open or refresh the page — only events received after you logged in are visible in the history.
This means:
- 1Refreshing the page clears the notification list.
- 2Logging out and back in starts with an empty history.
- 3The read/unread state of notifications is also session-scoped and is not persisted to the server.
Frequently Asked Questions on Notifications
Why are my notifications gone after I refreshed the page?
Notification history is held in memory for the current login session. Refreshing or logging out clears it.
I dismissed a toast notification but the entry is still in the notification list, is that expected?
Yes. Dismissing a toast notification removes it from the toast overlay but does not delete or read the underlying notification. Navigate to the Notifications page to mark it as read or clear it.
Why does the bell show red even after I've read some notifications?
The bell reflects your highest unread priority. If any Critical or High priority notification remains unread, the bell stays in that state. Use Mark all read on the Notifications page to reset it.
I'm in multiple account groups, will I see notifications from all of them?
Yes. The notification system subscribes to all account groups you belong to. Each notification is labelled with the source account group so you can identify which environment it came from.