Native Integrations

Sophos log monitoring with Log360

Overview

ManageEngine Log360 provides powerful integration with Sophos to centralize, monitor, and analyze logs from Sophos firewalls and endpoints. By ingesting and correlating these logs, Log360 empowers security teams to detect threats, investigate incidents, and demonstrate compliance—faster and more effectively.

From tracking firewall traffic and web filtering violations to analyzing endpoint antivirus activity, Log360 delivers full visibility into your Sophos-protected infrastructure from a single console.

How Log360 collects and analyzes Sophos logs

Log360 simplifies the ingestion and analysis of logs from Sophos appliances and solutions, supporting:

Collection methods

Syslog-based forwarding: Sophos logs (from Sophos Firewall, XG Firewall, or XGS Firewall) can be forwarded via syslog to Log360 for parsing and indexing. Both TCP and UDP protocols are supported for reliable transport.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 provides out-of-the-box support for Sophos log parsing and categorization. Key events are analyzed for patterns, risk levels, and mapped to user activity.

Log categories supported:

Firewall logs: Allowed and denied connections, VPN sessions, Network Address Translation (NAT) rules, bandwidth usage
VPN logs: VPN logon status, session initiations, disconnections, and authentication outcomes
IPS/IDS events: Exploit attempts, port scans, threat signature matches, blocked intrusion activity.
Antivirus/antimalware: Malware detections, infections cleaned and quarantined, scan outcomes
Web control logs: Blocked or categorized website access attempts, URL filtering events
Application control: Restricted application usage or unauthorized behavior
System events: Firmware updates, service restarts, config changes, license issues

Critical Sophos events monitored

Log360 continuously tracks essential events for real-time alerting, auditing, and investigation.

Malware and ransomware detections on endpoints
Repeated denied traffic from malicious IPs
VPN login attempts and session activity
Unauthorized application usage or policy violations
Threats blocked by IPS (for example, SQL injection, XSS attempts)
Suspicious web activity, including access to restricted domains
Configuration changes to firewall or endpoint policies
System health warnings and failed update attempts

Key benefits

By integrating Sophos logs with Log360, organizations can achieve improved visibility, real-time threat detection, and streamlined compliance reporting. Key benefits include:

Centralized visibility: Monitor logs from all Sophos firewalls and endpoints in one place alongside Windows, Linux, and other log sources—no need to check each device or portal separately.
Real-time threat detection: Detect and respond to threats using correlation rules, threat intelligence integration, and behavior analysis across multiple data points, including Sophos logs.
Enhanced forensics and investigations: Trace attack paths by combining firewall traffic data with endpoint detection logs, DNS activity, and user behavior to reconstruct incidents in detail.
Simplified compliance reporting: Leverage prebuilt reports aligned with the PCI DSS, the GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, and more using logs from Sophos devices to demonstrate controls and incident responses.
Unified security analytics: Enrich Sophos events with user context, behavioral baselines powered by Log360's user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) module, and external threat feeds to detect insider threats, brute-force attempts, and lateral movement.

Address key Sophos security challenges

Challenge	How Log360 helps
Detecting malicious activity	Leverages real-time correlation and alerting to identify malware infections, intrusion attempts, port scans, and unauthorized access attempts based on Sophos firewall and endpoint logs.
Ensuring policy compliance	Continuously audits firewall rules, antivirus policy enforcement, and application control events to ensure adherence to internal and regulatory compliance policies. Includes automated report generation for PCI DSS, HIPAA, and more.
Monitoring user and VPN activity	Tracks user login behavior, VPN session initiation, and remote access patterns using Sophos authentication and connection logs—flagging anomalies and brute-force attempts.
Responding to endpoint threats	Aggregates Sophos endpoint protection logs with contextual system activity to detect, investigate, and respond to threats like ransomware or fileless malware with greater speed and accuracy.
Investigating anomalies across systems	Correlates Sophos logs with logs from Active Directory, Windows/Linux servers, cloud apps, and threat feeds to uncover lateral movement, privilege escalation, and suspicious user behavior across the network.

The Log360 advantage: Beyond Sophos

While Log360 provides deep visibility into Sophos environments, it becomes significantly more powerful when integrated into your broader security ecosystem:

Cross-source correlation: Link Sophos firewall logs with Windows events, Active Directory activities, and cloud infrastructure for full attack surface coverage
Built-in UEBA: Identify insider threats and behavioral anomalies using advanced machine learning
Threat intelligence enrichment: Enhance Sophos logs with IP and domain reputation feeds for context-aware alerting
Single-pane management: Manage log ingestion, alerting, investigation, and compliance reporting—all from one console

Visualize your Sophos data

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