Auditing & Reporting Solutions from SECURE COMPUTING®

How do you know when something goes wrong?

A firewall, or any type of security appliance or software, does not operate in a vacuum. Although some security tools, like those offered by Secure Computing, are easier to implement and manage than others, good security will always require constant vigilance. Part of this vigilance is in deploying security solutions that have superior auditing and reporting features. Besides the need to generate reports and audits to comply with federal and state regulations, auditing and reporting is also essential to gaining an understanding of the status, trends, and events relating to all network activity. Auditing and reporting addresses both internal and external needs, and any enterprise must be able to get a good look at Web usage trends within the enterprise.

Secure Computing's Secure Firewall (Sidewinder) security appliance comes with centralized auditing and reporting facilities, allowing the administrator to get immediate feedback on how effective certain policies may be, and whether the enterprise is in compliance with regulations. Ideally, reports should be generated on an automated, scheduled basis, with the option of reports on demand at any time. The auditing and reporting function should offer choice of RDBMS in use, and should require little or no ongoing maintenance from IT staff, by offering robust automatic log file collection, report generation, and distribution. Furthermore, auditing and reporting functionality should be enhanced with emergency notification and escalation features. Of course, reports should be easily customizable, and should conform to the various pieces of legislation to which the enterprise must comply.

Secure Computing's Secure Firewall Reporter feature, included with the Secure Firewall security appliance, features robust auditing and reporting features that not only provide highly detailed and granular information, it also provides "at a glance" information of network security and gateway performance through a dashboard interface, which immediately informs the administrator of any problems.

Secure Firewall Reporter is easy to use and cost effective. As an auditing and reporting tool, it delivers centralized monitoring, correlated alerting, and reporting of all Secure Firewall (Sidewinder) audit streams, to identify real security threats and provide immediate action points to keep the enterprise safe. Secure Firewall Reporter is a graphically rich auditing and reporting tool that provides the enterprise with essential security intelligence, which helps to strengthen the overall security environment. It provides evidence of regulatory compliance, and it also shows forensic-quality data that details attack source, destination, port, protocol, and other information, all in real time.

For more information on Secure Computing's Auditing and Reporting solutions, please visit our Secure Firewall Reporter Auditing & Reporting pages.