Application Command Center (ACC), is a powerful visualization tool that summarizes current network activity in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. An integral component of both Panorama and the device web-interface, ACC presents administrators with a visual summary of application, web, URL, threat and data transfer activity displayed in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. ACC can be modified in the following ways:
- Application usage: View top applications traversing the network by risk, by category or subcategory, by technology or by network risk profile.
- Web activity: View top URLs visited and blocked or top URL categories visited or blocked.
- Data filtering: Gain insight into the files and data patterns that are being sent across the network.
- Threat activity: View spyware, application vulnerability exploits, viruses and other malware that may be traversing the network.
To learn more about the applications, URLs, data and threats traversing the network, administrators can mine ACC data by adding and removing filters in order to achieve the desired result.
- Selecting a specific application shows the details of what the application is, who is using it, where the traffic is going, and the source/destination countries.
- Additional filters can be added to learn more about individual user behavior, which security zones are sending/receiving the traffic, the potential threats and what files or data types are being transferred.
The visibility that data mining ACC provides allows administrators to learn more about the network activity to make more informed policy decisions or respond more quickly to potential threats. In the event that ACC displays something that warrants immediate, in depth analysis, administrators can jump to the corresponding logs that match the current ACC context with a click of a mouse.
