Overview
Forcepoint solutions play a vital role in safeguarding enterprise data by delivering web, email, firewall, and endpoint security. However, to build a comprehensive security posture, you need centralized visibility into these diverse events. Log360 integrates seamlessly with Forcepoint to ingest, normalize, and analyze its logs in real time. This integration helps security teams detect anomalies, investigate threats, and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates.
How Log360 collects and analyzes Forcepoint logs
Forcepoint devices can be set up to send syslog messages to Log360 over UDP, TCP, or TLS for centralized log collection. Log360 then parses, categorizes, and correlates these logs to produce actionable insights.
Monitoring and analytics capabilities
Log360 offers deep analytics and continuous monitoring capabilities for a wide range of Forcepoint log categories, enabling security teams to uncover hidden threats.
- Web and traffic monitoring: Track user wise URL access, blocked site attempts, bandwidth usage, and proxy traffic anomalies. Helps enforce browsing policies and detect risky web behavior.
- Logon activity tracking: Monitor successful and failed login attempts across Forcepoint services. Useful for identifying brute force attempts, unusual login times, or access from unrecognized IPs.
- Email security monitoring: Analyze spam, malware, and phishing detection events in inbound and outbound emails. Highlights policy violations and helps uncover targeted email attacks.
- Firewall and IDS/IPS event analysis: Review alerts related to port scans, intrusion attempts, and access rule violations. Enables early detection of network- evel threats and unauthorized activity.
- Device severity and threat categorization: Categorize events based on severity and risk type. Prioritize incidents using threat levels and respond to critical events faster.
- Correlated threat detection: Combine Forcepoint data with logs from other systems like AD, firewalls, and VPNs. Helps identify multi-stage attacks or insider threats through contextual analysis.
- Customizable reports and alerts: Create custom views, configure real time alerts, and schedule exports. Enables tailored monitoring for business-specific security requirements.
Critical Forcepoint events monitored
- Blocked URL access attempts: Detects when users attempt to access blacklisted or high-risk websites.
- Inbound and outbound email threats: Monitors spam, phishing, and malware-laden emails.
- Proxy traffic anomalies: Flags high data usage or uncommon protocols in HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
- Failed user authentications: Highlights brute-force attempts or access from unauthorized accounts.
- Firewall intrusion attempts: Captures IDS/IPS alerts triggered by known attack signatures.
- System configuration changes: Tracks updates to Forcepoint policies or service restarts that may indicate tampering.
Key benefits
- Real time visibility into user activity across web, email, and firewall layers.
- Centralized log management for easier compliance with HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other standards.
- Threat correlation with logs from other security infrastructure like Active Directory, firewalls, and servers.
- Behavioral analytics to detect deviations in user or entity activity based on Forcepoint logs.
- Alerting and incident response workflows to reduce manual investigation overhead.
Addressing key Forcepoint security challenges
| Forcepoint challenge |
How Log360 addresses it |
| Lack of centralized visibility into Forcepoint logs |
Aggregates logs from multiple Forcepoint modules and provides unified dashboards |
| Difficulty correlating user behavior across vectors |
Maps Forcepoint logs to user identities via Active Directory and enriches them with UEBA. Log360 builds behavioral baselines and flags deviations across network activity. |
| Manual investigation of alerts |
Leverage Log360’s Incident Workbench to provide automated incident workflows, timeline views, and root cause analysis by correlating Forcepoint logs with data from across the network. This reduces response time and improves investigation accuracy. |
| Missing advanced threat analytics |
Applies behavioral analytics and threat intelligence to detect subtle and advanced threats |
| High alert noise |
Customizable thresholds and correlation rules reduce false positives and highlight priority threats |
Visualize your Forcepoint data
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