Manual Chapter : Generate a security policy audit

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 8.0.0
Manual Chapter

Generate a security policy audit

When analyzing a Web Application Security policy, ensure that it is a child policy.
Analyze the protection status and application security provided by your Web Application Security policy. Generate an audit that allows you to view the policy's overall protection capabilities and a list of system-provided recommendations for improvement.
  1. Go to
    Configuration
    SECURITY
    Web Application Security
    Policies
    .
  2. Click the check box next to the name of the security policy you would like to audit.
    You are not required to select a policy at this stage.
  3. Click
    More
    and select
    Policy Analyzer
    .
    If you have not yet selected a policy, or you would like to analyze a different policy, select a security policy from SECURITY POLICY area in the upper left side of the screen. Once you select a policy, click
    Analyze
    .
  4. To save a local copy of the the security audit, click
    Export
    to download a CSV file of the information in the audit.
You have now generated a security policy audit, which will allow you to asses the current status of the policy's application protection capabilities.
You can use this audit to enable, ignore, and/or deploy policy recommendations listed on this screen. See
Overview of security policy audit
for more information.