Each day, Sophos firewall generate huge amounts of syslog data, which can be incredibly difficult to monitor all on your own. With EventLog Analyzer, you can archive syslogs to meet compliance mandates as well as conduct thorough forensic investigation to gain valuable insights should anything go wrong, such as a network intrusion.

Sophos Reporting Log Writer allows the use of third-party log-monitoring applications, for example, Splunk, which retrieve data from plain text files rather than directly from a database. To enable log-monitoring tools, the Sophos Reporting Log Writer service must be installed in addition to the Sophos Reporting Interface. Monitoring syslog data from Sophos UTM is great, until the syslog stream is interrupted or when you need to reboot the syslog receiver. When that occurs, you end up with gaps in your reporting data!

EventLog Analyzer sifts through your logs for you, allowing you to keep tabs on the critical events occurring in your network. Quickly run predefined reports for all your Sophos firewalls, along with reports for other network device vendors as well. Associate each report with real-time alerts to instantly detect and mitigate security threats.

In addition to reports and real-time alerts, you can use the log search function in EventLog analyzer to backtrack through security incidents for a thorough forensic investigation. With all of these features, you can stay in the loop so you'll know about all network activities in real time, giving you full control over your Sophos firewall logs.

EventLog Analyzer's out-of-the-box Sophos network security device monitoring reports.

Logon monitoring reports: These reports list all the successful logons to the firewall as well as the hosts and users with the highest number of logons to help you identify trends in logon patterns.

Failed logon monitoring reports: Similar to successful logon reports, these reports list all failed logon attempts to the firewall as well as the hosts and users with the highest number of failed logons; you'll also be able to view a report identifying the trends in failed logon patterns.

Reports on allowed traffic: These reports detail all the connections that pass through the firewall into the network so you can more easily identify traffic patterns and trends.

Reports on denied connections: Similar to allowed traffic reports, these reports detail all the connections that are denied access to the network, providing you with traffic patterns and trends as well.

IDS/IPS reports: These reports not only list possible and critical attacks, but they identify the source and destination devices most frequently involved in attack attempts as well. You can also view an attack trend report.

Severity monitoring reports: These reports classify log information by severity and are useful for accessing all events (including emergency, error, critical, alert, warning, notice, information, and debug) in a single click.

Key features of EventLog Analyzer:

Sophos Firewall Monitoring

• A user-friendly interface with an intuitive dashboard.
• Over 60 out-of-the-box reports for Sophos firewalls that aid in security and compliance auditing.
• Easily customizable report templates to meet internal policy needs.
• Custom compliance reports to fulfill growing compliance standards.
• Real-time email and SMS alerts on configuration changes and events of interest.
• Powerful log forensic analysis with a high-speed log search engine that uses various search algorithms, including Boolean, range, wild card, group searches, and more.