A view in Prism Central showing security metrics and compliance for clusters. Some controls can be set from its hardening widget; others are only reported there.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Security Dashboard in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- View
Shows a system through one chosen group of related concerns. No view is generic; each one is tied to whichever architecture it depicts.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- AMPRS
An acronym for availability, manageability, performance, recoverability and security: the five design qualities used to sort non-functional requirements and to weigh up trade-offs between design decisions.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- widget
Panel on a VCF Operations dashboard (Heatmap, Scoreboard, Metric Chart, View, Object List and so on) displaying data about chosen objects.
Related terms
- NCM Security Central
A SaaS service that shows security and compliance standing for AWS, Azure and Nutanix using more than 800 audit checks. It should not be confused with the Security Dashboard in Prism Central.
- Secure Boot
A UEFI safeguard: nothing may load ahead of the operating system unless it is signed and authenticated. AHV guests must have UEFI and no IDE disks to turn it on, and hosts can get it through the Security Dashboard.