Cisco Cisco Security Manager 4.0 White Paper

 

 

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Figure 1.    Cisco Security Manager Features Introduced in 4.x Releases 

 

 

The following sections summarize the features that have been added in the recent 4.x releases 

Improved Configuration Manager 

Cisco Security Manager’s configuration manager has improved dramatically since 3.x. Several features have been 

added to simplify policy management and improve operational efficiency. Auto-conflict detection is one such 

feature that enables maintaining a clean and effective policy table. The auto-conflict detection process has the 

capability to run through a huge number of policies that have been configured over time in Cisco Security Manager 

and identify the redundant rules that can then be deleted. Policy bundling is another feature that makes sharing of 

policies across hundreds of devices a very easy task. Users can group multiple policies into a bundle and the 

bundle can then be assigned to hundreds of devices at one go. Similarly, several other features have been added 

since 3.x that help in managing the latest Cisco Security devices effectively. 

Figure 2.    Cisco Security Manager: Auto Conflict Detection 

 

 

Dashboard 

The Cisco Security Manager dashboard is a widget-

based home screen that gives a bird’s eye view of the health, 

functioning and other key performance indicators of a network security setup. Several widgets such as device