How tags are used to derive the right security

Questions and tags together play a crucial role in determining the security policies.
Operations Director
is shipped with Symantec-defined tags.
Operations Director
also lets you create custom tags. Each tag is mapped to mandates (optional), security policies, questions and their responses.
Operations Director
determines security policies based on the responses to the security assessment questions that the server administrator submits.
  1. Let us understand how
    Operations Director
    derives the right security for you behind the scenes
  2. Tags are published and the questions are associated to the tags by the security administrator.
  3. The server administrator responds to the security assessment questionnaire in
    VMware vSphere
    Web client.
  4. Operations Director
    analyzes the responses and recommends tags. For example, PCI, SLA-Silver, and so on.
  5. Each tag has security controls and policies of security products that have been configured with
    Operations Director
    mapped to it based on which
    Operations Director
    recommends the security policies to secure a vApp/VM.