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Firewalls offer visibility into the source and type of network traffic entering your organization's network. This makes firewall logs a vital source of information, including details such as source addresses, destination address, protocols, and port numbers for all connections. This information can provide insights into unknown security threats and is a vital tool in threat management.

EventLog Analyzer is a central log management solution that collects logs from your firewall devices and organizes them in a single location. This solution is also a firewall auditing tool that makes it easy for security admins to monitor firewall logs, conduct firewall analysis, and detect abnormalities. EventLog Analyzer uses correlation and real-time alerts to actively detect and mitigate potential threats.

Firewall auditing with EventLog Analyzer

Logon auditing

The solution provides insights to successful and failed user logons in the form of analytical reports. These reports include information on the source of a logon event, time of occurrence, and more. Events are consistently monitored to identify login patterns, and used as a baseline to detect suspicious login attempts that could indicate an attack or an insider threat.

Logon auditing

Configuration change auditing

EventLog Analyzer analyzes firewall log data and provides insights into configuration changes and configuration errors. The tool provides details such as who made the configuration change, when it was made, and from where. This information not only helps with effective auditing but also with complying with the regulatory requirements of PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, etc., which mandates that enterprises audit firewall configuration changes.

Configuration change auditing

User account change auditing

These reports provide insights into the addition, modification, disabling, or deletion of users along with user privilege level changes, which provides visibility into user account activities. EventLog Analzyer uses this information to detect any suspicious or unusual user account activity, and identify any insider threats or privilege escalation attempts.

User account change auditing

Firewall traffic monitoring  

EventLog Analyzer provides traffic information from allowed and denied connections. The detailed information provided by these reports is categorized and visually represents the traffic based on sources, destinations, protocols, and ports along with timestamps, enabling security admins to track network traffic. This helps identify trends in abnormal traffic from suspicious sources, and prevents threat actors from gaining access to the network.

Firewall traffic monitoring

Incident response

EventLog Analyzer offers an effective incident detection process through event correlation. With the help of built-in correlation rules, you can detect security threats in firewall events. When any suspicious activity is spotted, instant alerts are sent out to security admins. This helps speed up the response process, alerting your admins to possible threats at their earliest stages so they can effectively protect your organization's network from experiencing major damage.

Incident response

Frequently asked questions

Firewall logs contain information on an event such as:

  • Event type
  • Source and destination IP address
  • Port number
  • Protocol
  • Timestamp
  • Action
  • Rule ID

The firewall logs are parsed and analyzed by either a firewall analyzer or a log management solution to identify patterns or anomalies to detect an attack, and generate reports. The information contained in the firewall logs are analyzed to provide insights into network traffic patterns, security events, and connection statistics.

Monitoring firewall logs provides insights into network activity and potential security threats. It helps with:

  • Network visibility: Firewall logs provide insights into a network's traffic and activities. This helps identify trends and any anomalous behavior within the network. Enhanced network visibility contributes to proactive measures in security management.
  • Threat detection: Analyzing firewall logs helps organizations detect any suspicious activity, port scanning, unauthorized access attempts, or any unusual traffic patterns that could be indicative of an attack. Analyzing these logs allows for suspicious behavior to be detected in real-time, which helps organizations take immediate action to mitigate risks and prevent security incidents.
  • Intrusion detection: Firewall logs can be used to detect network intrusions. Analyzing the logs for indicators of compromise or known attack techniques can help identify potential threats and mitigate unauthorized access attempts.
  • Incident response: Firewall logs provide valuable insights into a security incident. This helps IT security teams understand the nature, scope, and impact of the incident to facilitate incident response.
  • Compliance: Firewall logs help organizations demonstrate adherence to compliance mandates and regulations, and industry-specific security requirements.

When a firewall log analyzer monitors and analyzes the logs automatically, it helps detect threats in real-time and takes immediate actions to minimize the incident's impact. Automation of firewall log monitoring can be achieved with a firewall log management solution, such as EventLog Analyzer. The solution correlates suspicious events and uses automated workflows to mitigate threats immediately.

EventLog Analzyer offers out-of-the-box support for firewalls, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), intrusion detection systems (IDS), and intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) from leading vendors.

EventLog Analyzer as a firewall monitoring tool

EventLog Analyzer is a centralized log management tool that monitors firewall logs and activity to

  • Performs comprehensive firewall log management and analysis.
  • Presents exhaustive information in predefined firewall auditing reports to help you track firewall activity.
  • Shows reports in table, list, and graphical formats, with support for several graph types.
  • Sends real-time predefined or customizable alerts through SMS or email.
  • Identifies suspicious activity and alerts the administrator through correlation rules.
  • Displays raw log information from reports in a simple click.

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  • Credit Union of Denver has been using EventLog Analyzer for more than four years for our internal user activity monitoring. EventLog Analyzer provides great value as a network forensic tool and for regulatory due diligence. This product can rapidly be scaled to meet our dynamic business needs.
    Benjamin Shumaker
    Vice President of IT / ISO
    Credit Union of Denver
  • The best thing, I like about the application, is the well structured GUI and the automated reports. This is a great help for network engineers to monitor all the devices in a single dashboard. The canned reports are a clever piece of work.
    Joseph Graziano, MCSE CCA VCP
    Senior Network Engineer
    Citadel
  • EventLog Analyzer has been a good event log reporting and alerting solution for our information technology needs. It minimizes the amount of time we spent on filtering through event logs and provides almost near real-time notification of administratively defined alerts.
    Joseph E. Veretto
    Operations Review Specialist
    Office of Information System
    Florida Department of Transportation
  • Windows Event logs and device Syslogs are a real time synopsis of what is happening on a computer or network. EventLog Analyzer is an economical, functional and easy-to-utilize tool that allows me to know what is going on in the network by pushing alerts and reports, both in real time and scheduled. It is a premium software Intrusion Detection System application.
    Jim Lloyd
    Information Systems Manager
    First Mountain Bank

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