Custom Visualization

In micro-segmentation, a clear understanding of application communication maps is essential to create segments and author policies that secure these segments. Using our Zero Trust Security Platform’s context-based visualization capabilities, users can envisage interactions between entities from multiple perspectives and be better informed as they build their security framework.

Using the default visualization capability, users can view interactions between segments, both managed and unmanaged, in a non-customizable three-layered structure.

To address the increasing need to understand application communication based on custom requirements or the manner in which organizations are structured, Colortokens’ custom visualization capability has been introduced. Custom visualizer, also known as a multi-hierarchy visualizer, allows you to overlay your business context in the visualizer to created personalized viewpoints.

Custom visualization allows you to leverage both custom and system tags to create personalized views. You can dynamically configure the visualizer to view how your resources are organized based on the tags you choose.

Using custom visualization

Step 1: Tag your resources
Tag your assets based on your specific business needs. For example, resources can be categorized based on business units, environments, location, or any other segregation logic. Tagging is fundamental to perform custom visualization.

Step 2 (Optional): Group your resources based on tags
It is a good practice to segment resources based on the operation units they belong to. This eases the step of authoring policies for those resources. This step is optional.

Step 3: Create a custom view
Using the visualizer, you can create a custom view that can have a maximum of five layers. Note that the bottom three layers are present by default. You can save this view as a template for you to use later.

Step 4: Visualize with the custom view
Use the visualizer to display the custom view with all resources under their respective bubbles. You can now visualize application communication from your personalized context.