# Dashboard Overview
URL: https://docs.autociso.io/console/overview/dashboard/
Description: The dashboard provides security, IT, and compliance teams with a high-level summary of the organization's current access posture.

*This is the help text the console shows in the help panel on this page.*

The dashboard provides security, IT, and compliance teams with a high-level summary of the organization's current access posture. It is designed to quickly answer three questions: what changed, what looks risky, and what needs immediate action.

### Tabs
- **My home** — shown first once you [pick a role focus](https://docs.autociso.io/getting-started/role-focus/) (**My role focus** in the profile menu). It puts the widgets for that role on one page; **Tailor my home** changes it. A role focus never changes what you can see or do.
- **Statistics** — counts, charts, and the risk-based remediation queue.
- **Executive** — board-ready posture summary.
- **Security Surface** — [helicopter-view CISO landing](https://docs.autociso.io/product/posture/security-surface/). Shown to [owners and managers](https://docs.autociso.io/getting-started/roles-and-permissions/) on [The Seed plan](https://docs.autociso.io/getting-started/plans-and-features/) or higher.

### Key Metrics
- **Employees**: Number of unique human identities currently tracked across all connected assets.
- **Assets**: Count of applications, infrastructure platforms, databases, and internal tools under monitoring.
- **Open Anomalies**: Identified access issues such as ghost accounts, terminated access, or unusual privilege assignments.
- **Pending Reviews**: Access certification tasks waiting for approval or remediation.
- **Missing Owners**: Resources that have no business owner assigned.

### Alerts
- A banner appears at the top when you have unread critical notifications; click **View all** [to open Notifications](https://docs.autociso.io/console/overview/notifications/). Dismissing it hides it until a newer critical notification arrives.
- **Critical Offboarding Action Required** appears on the Statistics tab while departing employees still have pending revocation tasks; click **[Open Lifecycle Center](https://docs.autociso.io/console/operations/lifecycle/)** to work through them.

### Risk & Remediation
- **Risk-Based Remediation Queue**: A prioritized list of security actions based on risk score, asset criticality, and SLA. It helps teams focus on the most impactful issues first.
- **Dormant Access**: Highlights access relationships that have been inactive or unverified for more than 30 days.
- **Stale Privilege Reviews**: Tracks privileged access that has not been re-certified within the expected 90-day cadence.

### Security Surface tab
- **Summary Bar** — five top-line KPIs: surface covered %, active risk findings, [ISO 27001 readiness](https://docs.autociso.io/console/iso/readiness/) %, identities monitored, open decisions.
- **Posture Radar** — Identity, Access, Lifecycle, Assurance, Assets, Posture axes. Dashed gray polygon = the full security surface; purple fill = your current coverage. Gaps are blind spots you can address.
- **Surface Map** — four horizontal bands (Exposure, Access, Assurance, Risk), each with five capability tiles colored by status.
- **Time Machine** — slider below the summary bar; switch the view to any past monthly snapshot. Hidden chips while no history exists; click "Live" to return.
- **Drill-Down Drawer** — click any active tile to see the specific entities behind the metric, then "View full report" jumps to the owning CISO/ISO page.
- Snapshots are computed on demand when the [vCISO Monthly Summary](https://docs.autociso.io/console/vciso/monthly-summary/) page is opened; history reflects whichever past months your team has opened.

### Analytics & Visualization
- **Asset Health**: Indicates whether the environment is stable or trending toward higher risk.
- **Anomaly Severity**: Distribution of Critical, High, Medium, and Low findings.
- **Anomalies by Asset**: Identifies which assets contribute the most unresolved risk.
- **Historical Trends**: Visualizes changes in employee counts, assets, and anomalies over time.

### When To Use This Page
Use the dashboard to start your day, prepare for an audit, or provide leadership with a status update on organizational access risk.