Native Integrations

Topsec monitoring with ManageEngine Log360

Overview

Topsec solutions are crucial for maintaining network security, offering features like firewall protection, intrusion detection, and content filtering. However, to achieve a robust security posture, it's essential to have a unified view of these diverse security events. Log360 integrates seamlessly with Topsec to ingest, normalize, and analyze its logs in real time. This integration empowers security teams to identify anomalies, investigate threats, and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates.

How Log360 collects and analyzes Topsec logs

Topsec devices can be configured to send syslog messages to Log360 over UDP, TCP, or TLS for centralized log collection. Log360 then intelligently parses, categorizes, and correlates these logs to generate actionable security insights.

Monitoring and analytics capabilities

Log360 provides in-depth analytics and continuous monitoring capabilities for a wide array of Topsec log categories, enabling security teams to uncover hidden threats and vulnerabilities.

Firewall and network activity monitoring : Track traffic flow, blocked connections, and access rule violations. Helps enforce network policies and detect unauthorized access attempts or suspicious communication patterns.
Intrusion detec tion/prevention system (IDS/IPS) event analysis : Review alerts generated by Topsec's IDS/IPS, including signatures matched, attack types, and source/destination IP addresses. Enables early detection of network-level threats and intrusion attempts.
Content filtering and web usage: Monitor blocked site attempts and application usage. Helps enforce acceptable use policies and identify risky web behavior or productivity drains.
System and configuration changes: Track updates to Topsec policies, configuration modifications, and Topsec device restarts. Essential for detecting potential tampering or unauthorized changes to security controls.
Device severity and threat categorization: Categorize events based on severity and risk type.
Correlated threat detection: Combine Topsec data with logs from other systems like Active Directory, VPNs, and other security devices. Helps identify multi-stage attacks or insider threats through comprehensive contextual analysis.
Customizable reports and alerts: Create custom views, configure real-time alerts, and schedule exports. Enables tailored monitoring for business-specific security requirements and compliance needs.

Critical Topsec events monitored

Blocked network connections: Detects when firewall rules prevent unauthorized access or communication.
IDS/IPS triggered alerts: Monitors for known attack signatures, unusual traffic patterns, or policy violations identified by the IDS/IPS.
Login failures/successes: Tracks administrative and user login attempts to Topsec devices, highlighting potential brute-force attacks or unauthorized access.
Policy rule changes: Captures modifications to firewall rules, IDS/IPS policies, or content filtering settings.

Key benefits

Real-time visibility into network activity across firewall, IDS/IPS, and content filtering layers.
Centralized log management for easier compliance with standards like the GDPR, HIPAA, and the PCI DSS.
Threat correlation with logs from other security infrastructure like Active Directory, other firewalls, and servers.
Behavioral analytics to detect deviations in network or user activity based on Topsec logs.
Automated alerting and incident response workflows to reduce manual investigation overhead and accelerate threat mitigation.

Addressing key Topsec security challenges

Challenge	How Log360 solves it
Lack of centralized visibility into Topsec logs	Aggregates logs from multiple Topsec modules and provides unified dashboards for comprehensive insights.
Difficulty correlating network events with user behavior	Maps Topsec network events to user identities via Active Directory and enriches them with User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA). Log360 builds behavioral baselines and flags deviations across network activity.
Manual investigation of alerts and false positives	Leverages Log360’s Incident Workbench to provide automated incident workflows, timeline views, and root cause analysis by correlating Topsec logs with data from across the network. This reduces response time and improves investigation accuracy, while customizable thresholds reduce alert noise.
Missing advanced threat analytics	Applies behavioral analytics and threat intelligence to detect subtle and advanced threats that might bypass traditional signature-based detection.
Compliance reporting complexities	Offers out-of-the-box and customizable reports for various compliance mandates, simplifying audit processes by providing detailed evidence from Topsec logs.