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Sheriff CSM™

Prerequisites and Requirements

The information in this guide is primarily intended for security engineers, security analysts and operators, IT managers and professionals, and system administrators, using Sheriff CSM to provide network security within their own organization’s environment. Users must also have knowledge of their organization’s network infrastructure and the networking technologies they use.

Recommended skills for users include the following:

• Basic TCP/IP networking knowledge and skills including IP addressing, DNS, switching, and routing.
• Basic familiarity with IT security concepts and associated skills, including threats, vulnerabilities, risk management and security devices/applications.
• Basic Linux skills, including the use of the command line interface for file and user management, and text editing (using tools such as vi/vim and nano).

Information provided in this guide assumes a customer has completed installation and configuration of Sheriff CSM as described in Sheriff CSM Initial Setup. In addition, users of this guide need the appropriate credentials to access Sheriff CSM, a web browser (to access the Sheriff CSM web UI through HTTPS), and SSH access (for operations performed from the Sheriff CSM command line).

Sheriff CSM supports the following browsers.

Supported Browsers

Browser/Platform	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux
Chrome	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edge	Yes	N/A	N/A
Firefox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Internet Explorer 11	Yes	N/A	N/A
Safari	N/A	Yes	N/A

Note: All Sheriff CSM releases are tested on the most recent version of the browsers and one version prior to the most recent.