Create a Profile

Step 1: Create a profile

The best-practice recommendation is to create an individual profile in the WebUI for each of your open-appsec deployments. Examples of "deployments" would be e.g.:

- K8s deployment using HELM or installation tool (consisting of one or multiple open-appsec agents) - redundant deployment using Docker on two or more virtual machines (each having its own agent) protecting the same web assets - redundant Linux embedded deployment on two or more Linux machines protecting the same web assets Security-wise this makes sure that only policies for those assets that are protected by specific agents are enforced on those agents (by linking the Assets to only the relevant profile(s)), in addition to having separate tokens per each deployment and all associated agents. In addition, this approach provides the flexibility of being able to configure various settings available on the profile-level individually per each deployment, if required.

In the open-appsec WebUI create a new Profile as follows,

You will get into the related Profile page:

Profile example for Docker with sub type NGINX

Step 2: Select profile "Sub Type"

Select the correct subtype for your intended open-appsec deployment on Docker (NGINX or Kong).

Step 3: Determine Management Mode:

open-appsec offers the following management modes: “Declarative configuration”: In this mode after connecting the deployment to WebUI you will still configure everything in the local declarative configuration file, but the WebUI will show you all settings (in read-only) and you can monitoring logs and security events comfortably.

“This management”: In this mode, after connecting the deployment to WebUI open-appsec settings are configured centrally from the web UI,(local configuration file will not be used by the agent anymore).

Step 4: Enforce Policy

Enforce policy, by clicking the button at the top right of the page.

Step 5: Copy Token

Copy the token shown in the profile by clicking the copy token option shown below. You need to provide this token in the following open-appsec installation steps on Docker:

Step 6: Install open-appsec

Follow the instructions provided here to install open-appsec, once those have been successfully performed the deployed open-appsec Agent will automatically connect to the Profile created in the steps above, and after about two minutes, you will see a green notification bar in the Web UI.

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