User interface features for enterprise security management

A method of depicting a security topology in an enterprise security management configuration tool, the method comprising:

• displaying a configuration user interface including an enterprise topology region and a tool palette, the enterprise topology region being configured to display a configuration user interface including an enterprise topology region and a tool palette;
• displaying, in the enterprise topology region, a logical interconnection view of a plurality of nodes included within an enterprise network, the logical interconnection view including at least one profile icon representing a profile including a plurality of affinitized nodes and at least one solution icon representing a plurality of intercommunicating profiles without requiring display of each of the affinitized nodes individually, the plurality of affinitized nodes being automatically grouped and associated with the at least one profile icon based at least in part on similarity of network concordance data among the plurality of nodes to present a simplified illustration of the enterprise topology;
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• displaying, in the tool palette, a plurality of tools useable to modify groupings or settings associated with the plurality of nodes,
• wherein the network concordance data includes network traffic data regarding identities and interactions of the plurality of nodes included within the enterprise network.

A method of configuring a security topology in an enterprise security management configuration tool, the method comprising:

• manipulating an icon representing one or more nodes in a configuration user interface of an enterprise security management configuration tool to associate the one or more nodes into a manual grouping of nodes in an enterprise network, the manual grouping of nodes including a plurality of nodes and being represented by a first profile icon;
• after manipulating the icon, selecting, from a tool palette of the configuration user interface, an automatic association tool, the automatic association tool determining an association among a remaining plurality of nodes other than the manual grouping of nodes into a plurality of automated logical groupings of nodes based at least in part on network concordance data, each of the automated logical groupings of nodes representing a profile including affinitized nodes and being represented by at least a second profile icon, and not requiring display of each of the affinitized nodes or the manual grouping of nodes individually to present a simplified illustration of the enterprise topology;
• wherein the manual grouping of nodes is different from the plurality of automated logical groupings of nodes, and the automatic association tool preserves the manual grouping of nodes, and
• wherein the network concordance data includes network traffic data regarding identities and interactions of the plurality of nodes included within the enterprise network.