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Quick Start Workflow Automatically Generate Policies

Last updated: May 30, 2025

Automatically Generate Policies

Secure Workload generates or discovers policies based on existing traffic between workloads and other hosts. You can modify, supplement, analyze, and eventually approve and enforce policies on the workloads.

Before you begin

  • Install agents on your application's workloads.

  • Allow some time after agent installation for flow data to accumulate.

Procedure

1

On the Next Steps page of the quick start wizard, click Automatically Generate Policies.

Alternatively, you can do the following:

  1. From the navigation pane, choose Defend > Segmentation.

  2. On the navigation pane, in the scope tree or list of scopes, scroll down to the application scope.

  3. Choose Primary in the scope.
2

Choose Manage Policies.
3

Choose Automatically Discover Policies.
4

Choose the time range for the flow data that you want to include:
5

Choose Discover Policies, the generated policies appear on this page.
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