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    Security Posture Policy

    Security Posture Policy

    A security posture policy is a set of custom or predefined profile(s). You can create a security posture policy for a SaaS app or public cloud service. An administrator can create a security posture policy to access and analyze the posture of the SaaS and IaaS resources with industry benchmarks and best practices. An administrator can create a security posture policy on a profile. A profile is a set of rules which is predefined. A profile can be customized or predefined such as the CIS Benchmark standard. A rule is a code snippet with associated metadata, such as severity, that is used to identify a specific violation of a SaaS or IaaS resource.

    You can create a security posture policy for a SaaS app. To access the security posture policy page:

    1. Log in to the Netskope tenant UI.
    2. Navigate to Policies > Security Posture.

      The Security Posture page opens.

    3. The Security Posture page displays a list of policies configured for the SaaS apps and IaaS infrastructure. The fields are:
      • Policy Name: Name of the policy.
      • Instance: Name of the instance for which the policy is defined.
      • Profile: List of profiles associated with the policy.
      • Last Edit: Time stamp of the last edited policy.

    You can edit, revert, disable, clone, and delete a policy. Click the More Options icon (…) to the right of the policy entry and select one of the following options:

    • Edit: On selecting this option, you can edit the policy.
    • Revert: On selecting this option, Netskope reverts the policy to its last applied change.

      Note

      This option is available only for a policy with pending changes.

    • Disable: On selecting this option, Netskope disables the policy and stops the scan for the policy.
    • Clone: On selecting the option, Netskope creates a duplicate copy of the policy.
    • Delete: On selecting this option, Netskope deletes the policy.

      Note

      If you delete a policy, scanning stops at the next scan interval. The existing scan continues to run till it finishes.

    In the polices table, you can select multiple policies and perform the following tasks:

    • Disable: On selecting this option, Netskope disables the policy and stops the scan for the policy.
    • Revert: On selecting this option, Netskope reverts the policy to its last applied change.

      Note

      This option is available only for a policy with pending changes.

    • Delete: On selecting this option, Netskope deletes the policy.

      Note

      If you delete a policy, scanning stops at the next scan interval. The existing scan continues to run till it finishes.

    Also, you can perform the following tasks:

    • Search a policy from the Policy Name ~ search field.
    • Click + Add Filter to filter the policies based on Cloud Provider, Instances, Profile, and Rule Name.
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