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Security Dashboard
Top Threats Table
The Top Threats table displays the latest top threats from Cisco if the status of the
associated signatures indicates that they are available for deployment or are under
investigation. Some of the top threats in the table are associated with signatures
that can be deployed to your router. The text of signatures already found on your
router is blue.
To obtain the latest top threats, click the Update top threats list button.
Note You cannot update the top threats by using the Cisco SDM Refresh button or your
browser’s Refresh command.
The top threats table has the following columns:
•Device Status indicates if the signature associated with the threat is already
enabled on your router. The following symbol may appear in the Device
Status column:
•Sig ID is a unique number identifying the signature asso ciated with the threat.
•SubSig ID is a unique number identifying the subsignature. If the signature
associated with the threat does not have a subsignature, SubSig ID is 0.
•Name is the name given to the threat.
•Urgency indicates if the level of the threat is high (Priority Maintenance) or
normal (Standard Maintenance).
•Threat Status indicates if the signature associated with the threat is available
or if the threat is still under investigation.
•Deploy contains checkboxes that can be checked if the signature associated
with the threat is available to deploy.
Signature is already enabled on your router.
Signature is not available on your router or is available but not
enabled on your router.