Symantec DLP log monitoring with Log360

Overview

Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) helps organizations safeguard their sensitive data by enforcing security policies across endpoints, networks, and storage systems. However, detecting data exfiltration attempts and ensuring policy compliance require deep visibility into DLP incidents and user behavior.

ManageEngine Log360 integrates seamlessly with Symantec DLP to provide centralized visibility into sensitive data activity and policy changes. By collecting, parsing, analyzing, and archiving DLP logs, Log360 enables real-time monitoring of data exfiltration attempts, policy violations, and enforcement actions. It enhances your ability to detect insider threats, streamline investigations, and meet compliance requirements—all from a unified SIEM platform.

How Log360 collects and analyzes Symantec DLP logs

Log360 supports multiple methods for ingesting DLP logs from Symantec Enforce Servers:

Collection methods

• Syslog forwarding: Configure the Symantec Enforce Server to forward DLP incidents to Log360 via Syslog (UDP/TCP).
• Manual log import: For non-Syslog deployments, DLP incident logs from the Enforce Server can be manually imported into Log360 for analysis.

Custom log parsing (if required)

Log360 supports standard Symantec DLP logs out of the box. However, custom parsing may be needed if:

• Logs are exported in non-standard formats.
• Logs pass through third-party forwarders that modify their structure.
• Your setup includes custom fields or localized content.

In such cases, Log360 allows custom parser configuration to accurately extract and map log fields for analysis and reporting.

Log processing pipeline

Once collected, DLP logs are normalized, enriched, categorized, and correlated with other log sources in Log360’s centralized console, enabling security teams to take informed action.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 supports and analyzes a wide range of DLP log events across endpoints, networks, and storage systems:

• Policy violations: Detects when sensitive data triggers DLP rules involving personal data, financial records, or intellectual property.
• Endpoint-level events: Tracks actions taken on sensitive files, such as copy-paste, print, screen capture, or file transfers to external drives.
• Network violations: Detects policy violations during data transmissions over email, FTP, HTTP, and other channels.
• User and host information: Logs usernames, source IPs, hostnames, and file names involved in each violation.
• Remediation actions: Records automatic and manual responses like block, quarantine, log, notify, or custom remediation steps.
• Repeat offender tracking: Highlights users or devices that are repeatedly triggering DLP policies.
• Policy configuration changes: Tracks changes made to DLP policies and rule definitions for audit purposes.
• Storage incidents: Monitors access to sensitive data stored on shared drives or cloud services.

Key benefits of integrating Symantec DLP with Log360

Log360 enhances the effectiveness of Symantec DLP by offering:

• Unified visibility: Monitor all DLP violations and incidents from a single SIEM dashboard, eliminating silos across endpoints, networks, and storage.
• Real-time alerts: Instantly detect high-risk activities, such as large-scale data transfers, blocked attempts, and recurring violations.
• Advanced threat detection: Leverage UEBA and event correlation to identify insider threats, data misuse, and suspicious behavior patterns.
• Compliance-ready auditing: Maintain comprehensive audit logs aligned with regulatory requirements like the GDPR, HIPAA, and the PCI DSS.
• Context-rich investigations: View violations alongside related user, device, and access events.
• Operational insights: Identify top violators, frequently triggered rules, and high-risk endpoints using visual dashboards.

Address key Symantec DLP challenges

ManageEngine Log360 effectively resolves common challenges faced in Symantec DLP security and compliance management. Here's how:

The Log360 advantage: Beyond DLP events

ManageEngine Log360 doesn't stop at Symantec DLP monitoring. It empowers your security operations by placing DLP events in a broader context:

• Cross-platform correlation: Correlate DLP violations with logins, file activity, firewall alerts, and cloud events for end-to-end investigations.
• Integrated UEBA: Outline normal user activity and detect deviations like repeated transfers or unauthorized access attempts.
• Threat intelligence: Enrich DLP alerts with threat feed checks to detect known malicious IPs, domains, or destinations.
• Unified SIEM dashboard: Use one console to monitor users, data access, and infrastructure events—enabling unified security operations and compliance tracking.