Security Analyst Terminologies

• Metadata tag that you apply to a device configuration template to indicate that the template contains security features.

• Security Tags have no effect on the Streamline NX templates and are used for reporting purposes within the Security Analyst console only.

• You can create any custom tag you want within Security Analyst, and then apply it to one or more templates in the Security Templates screen.

• You can assign a single tag to a template, or multiple tags as needed.

• Device configuration templates created in Streamline NX used to configure multiple devices at a time.

• Security Analyst displays all SLNX templates in the Security Templates screen (regardless of whether the template contains security features or not).

• There are two ways to create configuration template. Create template via Standard Device Preferences (SDP) or from Extended Device Preferences (XDP).

• You can view the list of device configuration templates and apply security tags within Security Analyst, but you can only edit the templates in the Streamline NX Management Console.

A device configuration template that is assigned at least one Security Tag in Security Analyst.

A configuration task created within Streamline NX that designates templates to apply, the devices to apply it to, and when the task is applied (i.e. on a repeating schedule or only once).

A device configuration template that has been tagged with one or more security tags. Together, the combination of a configuration task and a tagged template is referred to as a ‘policy’.

• When there is no previous successful applied policy and the tagged template result to success achieved via ‘apply’ action, the device status is considered ‘policy applied’.

• From a previous state of ‘in policy’ or ‘policy applied’, a device is considered ‘in policy’ when tagged template applied on the device achieved either via ‘apply’ or ‘check’ action reports as successful with “Match” result.

• If a task fails at either the ‘check’ or ‘apply’ action for a tagged template, devices covered by the policy are considered ‘out of policy’.