Capture Security Center User Guide

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Defense Layers

Three defense layers are currently shown on the Risk Meters.

A defense layer in the Risk Meter represents that a particular technology is licensed for use, but it does not indicate whether the layer has been configured in the best possible way to protect you from all threats.

Network Security Analytics and WAF (Web App Firewall) layer accounts for 55% of the overall protection strength and includs threat metrics for:

  • Malware
  • Intrusion
  • Zero-Day Threats
  • Web App Attacks

CAS (Shadow IT and SaaS Security) and Email accounts for 12% of the overall protection strength. It includes threat metrics for:

  • Phishing
  • Malicious Attachments
  • Malware on the Cloud
  • Cloud Data Loss

Endpoint Security accounts for 33% of the overall protection strength and includes threat metrics for:

  • Endpoint Malware
  • Endpoint Exploits
  • Zero-Day Endpoint Threats
  • Ransomware that needed to be rolled back

Defense layers that are licensed in MySonicWall have the appropriate risk meter shields enabled automatically. The threat vectors that correspond to those defense layers show as being blocked and provide tenant level threat statistics where applicable. If a product does not support tenant level statics, averaged data based on active product customers is used instead. Tenant data is represented by the orange arrows and averages from global data is represented by the blue arrows.