H3C log monitoring with Log360

Overview

Log360 collects and analyzes data from H3C security devices to provide centralized visibility into firewall activity, user behavior, and device health.

How Log360 collects and analyzes H3C logs

Log360 collects H3C logs via the native syslog protocol. H3C devices can be configured to forward syslog messages to Log360 for centralized monitoring over UDP, TCP, or TLS. Once ingested, Log360 automatically parses the logs, classifies events, and generates actionable reports. The solution supports custom parsing to normalize unstructured H3C logs, ensuring accurate field extraction for analysis, alerting, and reporting.

Monitoring and analytics capabilities

Log360 provides advanced monitoring features for H3C log streams, including:

• Real-time correlation of firewall events, authentication attempts, and IDS or IPS triggers
• Behavioral anomaly detection using log patterns and baselines
• Alerting on VPN failures, denied traffic spikes, or rule changes
• Visualization through dashboards that reflect security and operational trends across H3C appliances
• Log forensics with drill-down views for tracing incidents and access paths

Critical H3C events monitored

Log360 offers comprehensive visibility into H3C device activity by continuously collecting and analyzing a wide range of security-relevant events. These logs are normalized and enriched for correlation, alerting, and historical analysis.

• Firewall traffic events: Log360 monitors both allowed and denied connection attempts, helping identify policy violations, port scans, and anomalous traffic patterns. Events are categorized by source, destination, protocol, and action for granular inspection.
• Authentication and access attempts: Events related to successful and failed user logons—including VPN access—are tracked to detect brute-force attacks, suspicious login hours, and unauthorized access attempts.
• Firewall rule changes: All rule modifications are logged and audited, including the user initiating the change, the rule affected, and the time of change. This enables policy compliance and root cause analysis in case of misconfiguration.
• DHCP and interface events: Log360 captures interface up or down transitions and DHCP lease activity, offering insights into device availability issues, address conflicts, or rogue device behavior.
• IDS and IPS alerts: Threat detection logs generated by H3C’s IPSs are parsed to surface known attack patterns and correlate them with internal activity.

Key benefits

• Unified H3C log visibilityConsolidates logs from multiple H3C firewalls, switches, and routers into a centralized platform for seamless monitoring and correlation.
• Real-time threat detectionLeverages alert profiles and correlation rules to detect H3C-specific security events, like unauthorized access, firewall rule tampering, VPN misuse, and intrusion attempts.
• Granular audit trailsMaintains tamper-evident logs of critical events, such as login attempts, policy changes, and traffic anomalies, supporting internal investigations and audits.
• Compliance ready reportingOffers out-of-the-box reports that map H3C log data to major compliance mandates, including the PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and the GDPR.

Addressing key H3C security challenges

Beyond log management: The Log360 advantage

While Log360 provides robust H3C log collection, parsing, and reporting capabilities, it goes further by offering a security operations platform that enables deeper insights and faster threat response.

• UEBA

  Detect insider threats and compromised accounts by baselining typical behavior and flagging deviations in H3C user logons, VPN usage, and firewall activity patterns.

• Cross-source correlation engine

  -Correlate H3C events with logs from endpoints, Active Directory, and cloud services to uncover lateral movement, privilege escalation, and multi-stage attacks.

• Security data platformization

  Use Log360 as a unified security analytics layer across log sources, bringing together H3C telemetry with other security signals for a more complete threat posture.

Visualize your H3C data

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