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About Profile Filters

A profile is a set of filters. You can create a profile with tag filters, data filters, or a combination. The query tag filter limits the queries displayed for selection; the report tag filter limits the reports displayed for selection. The data filters limit the data displayed in a report or in query results. The profile filters apply to queries, reports, scheduled alerts, and scheduled reports.

You can select tag filters for reports and queries separately. Tag filters include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Standards-based tags, such as COBIT, FISMA,GLBA, HIPAA, NERC, PCI, SAS 70, SOX.

  Standards-based tag filters apply to report tags, not query tags.

• Security event category tags, such as content security, host security, network security, operational security, resource access, system access.
• Product tags, such as CA Access Control, CA Identity Manager, and CA SiteMinder.

You can select a simple data filter or you can create an advanced data filter. A brief description of each follows:

• Simple data filters can be based on any of the following:
  • A selected technology (system software, host application software and services, network application software and services).
  • A selected CEG event category, a selected CEG event category and class, or a selected CEG event category, class, and action.
  • A selected product.
• Advanced data filters are based on a user-defined SQL query composed of one or more WHERE clauses. The query selects a CEG column with a WHERE clause composed of that CEG column, a selected operator, and a specified value.