• Capture Security Center
• Overview
  • User Profile
  • Tenant Selector
  • Services
  • Products
    • Product Status
      • New Tag
      • Alert Tag
      • Beta Tag
    • Products Tiles
• Using Unified Insights
  • Using the Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Customizing Widgets on the Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Grouping Data on Widgets on the Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Moving Widgets on the Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Adding Widgets to the Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Removing Widgets from the Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Saving the Layout of Unified Insights Dashboard
    • Exporting the Unified Insights Dashboard as a Report
  • Generating Capture Security Center Reports
    • Creating Unified Insights Reports
      • Creating Unified Insights Reports for Firewalls
      • Creating Unified Insights Reports for Capture Client
      • Creating Unified Insights Reports for Wireless Devices
    • Downloading Unified Insights Reports
    • Deleting Unified Insights Reports
• Using Risk Meters
  • Navigating the Risk Meter Views
  • Risk Meters View
    • Personalized Tenant-Level Threat Data
    • Defense Layers
    • DEFCON and Shield Levels
    • What-If Analysis
    • Threat Metric
    • Third-Party Configuration
  • Worldwide Attacks View
  • Threat Metrics View
  • Security News View
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

DEFCON and Shield Levels

In the top right corner of the Risk Meters, you can see a DEFCON (defense readiness condition) score and the SHIELD LEVEL.

The DEFCON score indicates what risk level you face based on your defense layers. They range from 1, which indicates the highest risk (SEVERE), to 5, which is the lowest risk (LOW). Product layers are weighted differently based on the level of protection they provide. For example, firewalls without Capture ATP are less effective than firewalls with Capture ATP.

The SHIELD LEVEL indicates how many security measures are in place to protect the infrastructure from threats. The shields are represented by orange bars in the upper right corner. Shields are enabled by default based on the active SonicWall product licenses.

You can drill down to get more data about the details behind the security breakdown.

To see the DEFCON DETAILS

1. Click on either DEFCON or SHEILD LEVEL. This displays the DEFCON DETAILS, including the speedometer. The speedometer represents the cumulative protection level offered by all the licensed SonicWall products.

   

2. Click on the arrows to drill down for more information. For example, clicking on ENDPOINT SECURITY for this system displays this:

   

3. Click on the arrow next to the threat type and to see more information about that threat. The following example shows the data for Malware. You may need to scroll down to see all the information. Click on the blue Return arrow in the upper left corner to exit the drill-down.

   

4. Click on the icons at the bottom for additional data:

   • The Info icon provides additional information about the data being displayed on the Risk Meters.
   • The What If icon shows what changes you could make to get 100% protection.