1. A method comprising: at a management entity: importing information included in security policies from security devices configured to operate in accordance with respective ones of the security policies, wherein each security policy includes security rules, each security rule including a set of rule parameters configured to permit or deny access to a resource based on a network protocol, a source address or a destination address, and a device port; comparing the rule parameters of each rule of each security policy across the security policies; based on results of the comparing, classifying the security policies into identical security policy classifications when all of their associated rule parameters are equivalent to each other, similar security policy classifications when only some of their associated rule parameters are equivalent to each other, and unique security policy classifications when none of the associated rule parameters are equivalent to each other; displaying the security policy classifications as selectable security policy classifications; receiving an entry of a policy template name and selections of multiple security policy classifications; assigning the security policies in the multiple selected security policy classifications to a security policy template identified by the entered policy template name; and displaying a menu which shows editable security rules of the security policy template.