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Administration Guide

Security rating insights

Security rating insights

Objects, such as firewall policies or interfaces, with security rating recommendations are highlighted in the GUI. Hover over highlighted objects to display a Security Rating Insights tooltip. A Security Rating Insights button also displays at the bottom of the table.

Dismissed issues are unique for each administrator. Hashes for dismissed notifications are saved in local storage. If a user clears the local storage, all issues will show up again as not dismissed.

Once an issue is resolved, the notification disappears after the next security rating report runs.

To view security rating insights for firewall policies:
  1. Go to Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy.

    Objects with security rating recommendations are highlighted.

  2. Hover over any highlighted object to display a tooltip that shows Security Rating Insights:

  3. Below the table, click Security Rating Insights to display relevant issues.

  4. Select an issue, such as Unused Policies to display a banner and filter that you can use to filter down to the applicable entries.

  5. Click the X in the banner to close the issue.

To view security rating insights for network interfaces:
  1. Go to Network > Interfaces.

    Objects with security rating recommendations are highlighted.

  2. Hover over any highlighted object to display a tooltip that shows Security Rating Insights:

  3. Below the table, click Security Rating Insights to display relevant issues.

  4. Select an issue to display a banner and filter that you can use to filter down to the applicable entries.

  5. Click the X in the banner to close the issue.

Security rating insights

Security rating insights

Objects, such as firewall policies or interfaces, with security rating recommendations are highlighted in the GUI. Hover over highlighted objects to display a Security Rating Insights tooltip. A Security Rating Insights button also displays at the bottom of the table.

Dismissed issues are unique for each administrator. Hashes for dismissed notifications are saved in local storage. If a user clears the local storage, all issues will show up again as not dismissed.

Once an issue is resolved, the notification disappears after the next security rating report runs.

To view security rating insights for firewall policies:
  1. Go to Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy.

    Objects with security rating recommendations are highlighted.

  2. Hover over any highlighted object to display a tooltip that shows Security Rating Insights:

  3. Below the table, click Security Rating Insights to display relevant issues.

  4. Select an issue, such as Unused Policies to display a banner and filter that you can use to filter down to the applicable entries.

  5. Click the X in the banner to close the issue.

To view security rating insights for network interfaces:
  1. Go to Network > Interfaces.

    Objects with security rating recommendations are highlighted.

  2. Hover over any highlighted object to display a tooltip that shows Security Rating Insights:

  3. Below the table, click Security Rating Insights to display relevant issues.

  4. Select an issue to display a banner and filter that you can use to filter down to the applicable entries.

  5. Click the X in the banner to close the issue.