Working with OCI Security Control Baseline Settings and Templates

Learn about the different ways you can use OCI security templates to manage security control settings across OCI instances.

Note:

The OCI security control templates feature must be enabled by request. To enable this feature, contact Oracle Support (http://support.oracle.com).  If you have not registered yet, you will need your Customer Support Identifier (CSI) in order to register to submit service request tickets.  As an alternative, you can also contact your Oracle CASB Customer Success Manager.

Topics:

• About Security Control Templates and Application Instances

  Review this topic first to get oriented to the available features.

• Creating a Template

  If you want to use templates, the first thing to do is to create a template one.

• Attaching a Template to an OCI Application Instance

  To use a template, you attach it to OCI instances.

• Using a Template as the Base for Custom Settings

  You can use the security control settings from a template as the starting point for an OCI instance's security control settings, without permanently attaching the template.

• Editing a Template

  Make changes in a template's security control settings whenever you need to.

• Updating a Security Control's Settings in Multiple Templates or Application Instances

  Use the settings for a security control in one OCI instance to update, in one process, the same security control in multiple templates or multiple OCI instances.

• Updating an Exception Setting in Multiple Application Instances

  Use the Exceptions settings for a security control in one OCI instance to update, in one process, the same security control's Exceptions settings in multiple OCI instances.

• Viewing an Inventory of Template Usage

  See which security control templates are attached to which OCI instances.

• Duplicating a Template

  Create a new security control template from an existing template. This is useful if you want to create a new template that will have similar settings.

• Deleting a Template

  If you no longer need a template, you can delete it.