Encrypting, Hasing and Time-stamping of archive log storage
Firewall Logs Archiving
Logs received from firewalls and squid proxy servers are archived at specific intervals. You can load
these log
archives into the database at any time, and generate reports
for specific activity. However, log
archiving takes up disk space, but it is required for forensic analysis and compliance audit requirements.
Encrypting Archived Log files
Now, Firewall Analyzer encrypts the
Firewall log archive files to ensure the log data is secured for future forensic analysis, compliance and internal audits.
Hashing
The hashing of the archive log data files further secures the event log data.
Time stamping
The time stamping technique ensures that the archive data files are tamper proof. If there is a modification of file, this technique will reveal that the file has been tampered.
The three point security keeps the archive log data safe.
Configurable Log Archiving Intervals
The default
log archiving interval creates a log archive file of the all the received raw logs every 24 hours. And these log archive files are then compressed (zipped) after every 7 days, to conserve hard disk space.
You can configure the archive file creation and compressed file creation any time depending on how often you
need to archive
event logs. You can even disable log archiving entirely if
needed.
Reports on Archived Event Logs
At any time, you can load
Firewall log archive file into the Firewall Analyzer database
and generate reports from the archived log data.
Detailed Event Log Archiving
Every log archive file that is created, is stored along with the time
of archive creation, size of the archive, and the host whose
event logs have been archived. This makes it easy to load
and generate reports from archived
logs.
Instant Firewall Log Archiving
Firewall Analyzer includes options to instantly generate log archives
for all logs collected so far. All logs collected
will be archived, irrespective of the log archiving interval defined.
In this way, you can create and load
archived files into the database at any time.
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