# Docker Scout quickstart — Step 5: Evaluate policy compliance

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## Knowledge

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While inspecting vulnerabilities based on specific packages can be useful, it isn't the most effective way to improve your supply chain conduct.

Docker Scout also supports policy evaluation, a higher-level concept for detecting and fixing issues in your images. Policies are a set of customizable rules that let organizations track whether images are compliant with their supply chain requirements.

Because policy rules are specific to each organization, you must specify which organization's policy you're evaluating against. Use the docker scout config command to configure your Docker organization.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker scout config organization &lt;ORG_NAME&gt;
    ✓ Successfully set organization to &lt;ORG_NAME&gt;
```

Now you can run the quickview command to get an overview of the compliance status for the image you just built. The image is evaluated against the default policy configurations. You'll see output similar to the following

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker scout quickview

...
Policy status  FAILED  (2/6 policies met, 2 missing data)

  Status │                  Policy                      │           Results
─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────
  ✓      │ No copyleft licenses                         │    0 packages
  !      │ Default non-root user                        │
  !      │ No fixable critical or high vulnerabilities  │    2C    16H     0M     0L
  ✓      │ No high-profile vulnerabilities              │    0C     0H     0M     0L
  ?      │ No outdated base images                      │    No data
  ?      │ Supply chain attestations                    │    No data
```

Exclamation marks in the status column indicate a violated policy. Question marks indicate that there isn't enough metadata to complete the evaluation. A check mark indicates compliance.

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