Sophos Central Firewall Reporting
Customizable, cloud-based reporting for your XG Firewall

Overview:

Better Intelligence Through Analytics

Increasing visibility into network activity through analytics has become vital as organizations strive to gain a deeper understanding of their security environment. Central Firewall Reporting (CFR), Sophos’ cloud-based reporting for XG Firewall, provides the tools and flexibility to create custom reports that offer instant insight into the applications, risks, trends, and more impacting your network.

Highlights:

• Pre-defined reports with flexible customization
• Reporting for Sophos XG Firewalls – hardware, software, virtual, and cloud
• Intuitive user interface provides graphical representation of data
• Report dashboard provides at-a-glance view of events over the past 24 hours
• Easy identification of network activities, trends and potential attacks
• Easy backup of logs with quick retrieval for audits
• Simplified deployment without the need for technical expertise

Features:

Reporting in the cloud

Central Firewall Reporting provides you with a powerful set of tools to capture and analyze network activity from your XG Firewall. Data is sent to your Sophos Central account in the cloud where it can be accessed to give you a clear picture of network activity from a single pane of glass.

Intelligence through analytics

Gather intelligence by drilling down into the syslog data for a granular view that is presented in a visual format for easy understanding. The data can then be analyzed for trends that identify security gaps, suspicious user behavior or other events requiring policy changes.

Pre-defined and custom reports

Reports are structured around specific pre-defined modules that can be customized by changing the data fields in the table and charts and applying filters. Customize each report and create hundreds of variations from any report to visualize the data and trends for your specific use case.

Help with compliance

Keep up with regulatory and internal compliance requirements. In the event of a compliance audit, you can report on network events at any point in time.

Log backup and management

Central Firewall Reporting logs data from your XG Firewalls with smart indexing and easy search capabilities for fast retrieval, audits, and forensics. Built-in filters enable you to pivot from a report directly into the log data for a more detailed look at what’s behind the data in the report view.

Specifications:

Central Firewall Reporting

Supported Firewalls Supports Sophos XG Firewalls and SG Series appliances running v18 and newer, including hardware, software, virtual, and cloud Reports: Extensive built-in reports with customization Historical reports Customized report views Standard reports: bandwidth usage, application usage, web usage, firewall, ATP, geo-activity, IPS, Sandstorm events, and more Multi-format reports: tabular, graphical Custom and special reports with granular search options

Log View and Search Search and Retrieve logs against archived logs Administration Web-based management console Report dashboard for quick at a glance view of health Reports accessible from any location using a standard web browser

Documentation:

Download the Sophos Central Firewall Reporting Data Sheet (PDF).