Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

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Glossary
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FireSIGHT System User Guide
 
threat score
A rating of 1-100 assigned to a file as a result of submission to the 
for 
 that measure the likelihood the file contains malware.
thresholding
See 
time window
A time constraint on th
s in any event view. Different event views may have different default time 
windows, depending on your user preferences. Note that not all event views can be constrained by time.
traffic profile
A profile of the traffic on your network, based on 
 data logged over a time span that you 
specify. You can create profiles using all the traffic on a monitored network segment, or you can create 
more targeted profiles. Then, you can use the 
 feature to detect abnormal network traffic by 
evaluating new traffic against an existing profile. 
transparent inline mode
An advanced 
 option that allows a 
 to act as a “bump in the wire” and to forward all the 
network traffic it sees, regardless of its source and destination.
unidentified host
 whose operating system cannot be identified because the system has not yet gathered enough 
information about the host. Compare with 
Unified file
A binary file format that the FireSIGHT System uses to log 
unknown host
 whose traffic has been analyzed by the system, but whose operating system does not match any 
known 
s. Compare with 
URL category
A general classification for a URL, such as malware or social networking.
URL filtering
A feature that allows you to write 
s that determine the traffic that can traverse your 
network based on URLs requested by monitored hosts, correlated with 
 and 
 information about those URLs, which is obtained from th
 by the 
. You can also achieve more granular, custom control over web traffic by 
specifying individual URLs or groups of URLs to allow or block.