My TATER is your personal hub across all four TATER apps. It surfaces everything that's yours in one place: tasks waiting on you, places where you've been @mentioned, items you've favorited, what your peers are working on, where you stand on the leaderboard. Think of it as your inbox for the entire platform.
Getting there
Three ways:
- Direct URL: https://my.tatersecurity.com — sign in with your work account
- App switcher: from any TATER app (Security, Ops, Manage), click the 4-app grid icon in the top-right and choose My TATER
- Bookmark it. Most users use My TATER as their primary daily landing page and only jump into the other apps when they need to do something specific.
The seven pages
1. Dashboard (default landing)
An at-a-glance overview: number of open tasks assigned to you, unread @mentions, recent activity in your org, your level + recent badges. Click any tile to jump to the relevant page.
2. Favorites
Anything you've "starred" across the platform: controls you care about, risks you're tracking, policies you reference often, wiki pages you re-read, audits you're contributing to, vendors you manage, tasks you're following.
To favorite something, look for the ⭐ icon on its detail page. Click to add; click again to remove. Favorites are organized by entity type for easy scanning.
3. My Tasks
Every Tasker task assigned to you OR created by you. Includes catalog submissions, manually created tasks, auto-generated tasks (post-incident reviews, vendor risk findings, etc).
Filter by:
- Status: Open / In Progress / Pending Approval / Pending Customer / Resolved / Closed / Cancelled
- Role: Assigned to me / Created by me / Approver / Subscriber
- Priority: Critical / High / Medium / Low
- Due date: Overdue / This week / This month / Later
Click any task to open its full detail — see Reading the task detail page for the breakdown.
If a task is assigned to you
When a task lands in your "Assigned to me" filter (you got a notification email + an in-app badge), here's the workflow:
- Acknowledge fast. Click into the task, change status from Open to In Progress, and add a comment with your initial assessment ("looking now", "will need ~2 hours", "need clarification on X"). This unblocks the requester from wondering if anyone saw it.
- Ask for clarification in the comments rather than via email/DM. Use
@requester.emailto ping them. Their reply is in the comment thread so everyone has context. - Use the activity log + suggested wiki articles. The task detail panel often surfaces suggested wiki pages (powered by
suggest_wiki_pages) — if the same issue has been resolved before, the playbook is right there. Save yourself time. - Update status as you progress. In Progress → Pending Customer (if you're waiting on the user) → In Progress again → Resolved when done.
- When resolving, add a comment summarizing what you did, what the root cause was (if applicable), and any follow-up the user should take. This becomes the resolution email the user receives.
- If you can't complete it (out of scope, no permissions, needs another team), reassign rather than ignoring. Add a comment explaining why you reassigned.
- For repeat issues, follow the Three-Doc Rule — the task you just closed should produce a ConfigDoc capturing this org's specific state and a TATERpedia wiki page generalizing the playbook. Your AI assistant can do this for you via MCP if asked.
4. Mentions
Every comment, status update, or audit log entry where someone @mentioned you. Sorted newest first. Click to jump to the source comment in context.
Why this matters: when someone in another team @mentions you, that's usually a request for input. Resolving mentions promptly keeps your colleagues unblocked.
You can also mark mentions as "read" or "dismissed" to keep your view clean.
5. Community Feed
An activity stream of what's happening across your org: who's submitting requests, resolving incidents, publishing policies, completing trainings. Read-only — this is the org's pulse.
Use cases:
- Spot-check what your team is working on without interrupting them
- See which compliance work is getting done org-wide
- Find experts on a topic — "who's been writing wiki pages about MFA?"
6. Leaderboard
Per-user gamification scores: who's submitting the most evidence, passing the most controls, approving the most policies, contributing the most wiki pages. Sortable by category and time period (week / month / quarter / all-time).
Healthy competition is the goal — leaderboards drive consistent compliance work. If your org has prizes or recognition tied to leaderboard standings, your admin will let you know.
7. Achievements
Your earned badges. Categories:
- First-time — first risk created, first policy approved, first wiki page authored, etc.
- Leveled — bronze / silver / gold for accumulating actions (10/50/100 evidence submissions, etc.)
- Governance — exception requests, change requests, vendor onboardings
- Streak — N days of consecutive compliance activity (work in progress)
Each badge has a description explaining what triggers it. Some are visible only after you've earned them; others show as "locked" with the criteria, so you can see what's available to earn.
How to favorite something
The ⭐ button is on every entity detail page across all four TATER apps. Look for it in the top-right of the entity header.
| App | What you can favorite |
|---|---|
| TATER Security | Controls · Risks · Policies · Audits · Wiki pages · POAMs · Frameworks · Vendors · BCP/DR plans · Exceptions · Trainings · Data classifications · Questionnaires |
| TATER Ops | Tasks · Business docs · Meetings |
| TATER Manage | (Admin entities are not favorited — they're surfaced via dashboards) |
| My TATER | (Read-only here; favorites are managed in the source app) |
19 entity types total, all syncing back to your My TATER Favorites view.
How notifications work
You'll get notified for:
- Someone @mentions you in a comment or status update
- A task assigned to you changes status
- Your approval is needed on a task or change request
- A request you submitted is resolved (or rejected)
- You're subscribed to a major incident and a status update is posted
- A policy you authored is approved or signed
- You earn a new achievement (optional, can be disabled)
Channels: in-app notification badge (the bell icon in the topbar), email (if delivery is configured), and any sister-app surface where the item lives. Configure preferences under Settings → Notifications.
Using your AI assistant with My TATER
If your org has Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, or another MCP-enabled AI connected to TATER, your AI can answer questions about your personal view:
- "What's on my task list today?"
- "Show me my open mentions."
- "Who's the top contributor on the leaderboard this month?"
- "What achievements am I close to earning?"
- "Summarize the org community feed from the last week."
The AI uses MCP tools to read your context. Anything it does on your behalf (submitting a request, posting a comment) is tagged in the activity log with via: copilot or via: claude so you can always trace what happened.
Recommended daily habit
- Start your day in My TATER. Spend 5 minutes scanning Mentions + My Tasks before you open other apps.
- Clear overdue mentions first. Unread mentions mean colleagues are blocked.
- Triage your task queue. Pick the most important 2-3 for the day. Don't open dozens.
- Glance at the Community Feed. Notice patterns — heavy activity on a control might signal an audit coming or an incident in progress.
- End your day by closing what you can. Even just marking a task in-progress shows movement and unblocks the next person.
Frequently asked questions
Why am I assigned to tasks I didn't agree to take?
Tasks can be assigned by an approver, a workflow, a catalog item routing rule, or an AI assistant acting on someone's behalf. If an assignment doesn't make sense, reassign via the task detail page or comment back asking for context.
I don't see something in My Favorites that I starred.
Sync is fast but not instant. Refresh the page or wait 30 seconds. If still missing, check that you actually clicked the star (it should be filled, not outlined). Items in archived states (e.g. retired policies) may be filtered out of the default Favorites view.
The Community Feed shows things I shouldn't have visibility into.
The feed respects your role + organization. If you're seeing items you don't think you should, report it to your admin — that's a permissions issue, not a feed quirk.
Can I disable notifications?
Yes — Settings → Notifications lets you toggle each channel and event type independently. You'll always get notifications for items where you're the approver or the assignee (these are workflow-critical), but you can disable lower-priority ones like achievement earned, leaderboard rank changes, community feed digest emails.
What's the difference between My TATER and the other apps?
The other apps (Security, Ops, Manage) are where work happens — you go there to do specific tasks. My TATER is where work surfaces for you — your personal inbox + dashboard across all of them. Most users live in My TATER and jump into the other apps as needed.
Can I customize the My TATER dashboard?
Limited customization today — sidebar order and notification preferences are configurable. Future releases will allow widget arrangement and custom saved views.
Related guides
- Submitting + tracking catalog requests — most of what shows up in My Tasks
- Comments, @mentions, notifications — the activity feed across TATER
- Community + gamification — how leaderboards and achievements work under the hood