The Need for Comprehensive Firewall Log Analyzer Application
Firewall logs reveal a lot of information about the security threat attempts at the periphery of the network and on the nature of
traffic coming in and going out of the firewall. The analyzed firewall log information, provides real-time information to the Administrators on the security threat attempts and so that they can swiftly initiate remediation action. It allows you
to plan your bandwidth requirement based on the bandwidth
usage across the firewalls. Analyzing firewall security logs plays an important role in business risk assessment. Analyzing firewall traffic
logs is vital to understand network and bandwidth usage. Firewall
Analyzer, a firewall log analyzer application, offers many features that help in collecting, analyzing
and reporting on firewall
logs.
Firewall Analyzer supports:
Automatic Firewall Detection
Simply configure
your firewall to export logs to Firewall Analyzer. Firewalls
are then automatically detected and reports are generated
instantly. For all firewalls that support exporting logs
in WELF format, this is the best configuration option.
Firewall Log Import
In the case of Squid
proxy servers, and firewalls that do not export logs in
an acceptable format, you can import
firewall log or proxy log files directly in to Firewall Analyzer and generate
reports for the same.
Firewall Log Archiving
Logs received from firewalls, squid proxy servers, and Radius
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, so you can disable this
option at any time.
Specific Check Point Settings
Firewall Analyzer lets you add
LEA servers to establish connections and retrieve logs
from Check
Point firewalls. You can add as many LEA servers as needed,
and set up authenticated or unauthenticated connections to
retrieve firewall logs.
Embedded Syslog Server
Firewall Analyzer comes pre-bundled with a syslog
server that listens for exported firewall logs at the
defined listener ports. You can add more listener ports to
this syslog server, in order to collect logs from different
firewalls. The syslog server is a part of Firewall Analyzer
and does not require a separate installation.
Exporting and Importing Report and Alert Profiles
Firewall Analyzer provides an easy way of saving the report and alert profiles. You can export the profiles and save it. You can import the profiles to get the profiles back. This will come handy in case of exigencies like when you are moving the server to a different machine etc. You can also save the exported profiles file. |
