The Security Dashboard view is the main view on the station’s SecurityService. The view alerts you to security weaknesses such as poor password strength settings; expired, self-signed or invalid certificates; unencrypted transport protocols, etc., indicating areas where the configuration should be more secure. Other reported data includes: system health, number of active accounts, inactive accounts, number of accounts with super-user permissions, etc. Optionally, the “system” attribute on the “securityDashboard” license feature can be set to “true” to enable the System View of the station which provides security details for each subordinate station in the NiagaraNetwork, as shown here.

Figure 1.   Example Security Dashboard View

The Summary card in the upper left corner of the view summarizes the number and type of security status messages that are generated for all Services on the station. Each “card” (or pane) in the view provides security configuration data for a particular service. Typically, each card provides a hyperlink to that service (or to a component) so that you can easily change a configuration. In cases where there is no component to link to, no hyperlink is provided on the card.

For complete details, see “ nss-SecurityDashboardView” in the “Components and views” chapter of this guide.