Monitor Activity and Create Custom Reports Based on Threat Categories
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Monitor Activity and Create Custom Reports Based on Threat Categories
Threat categories classify different types
of threat signatures to help you understand and draw connections
between events threat signatures detect. Threat categories are subsets of
the more broad threat signature types: spyware, vulnerability, antivirus,
and DNS signatures. Threat log entries display the Threat
Category for each recorded event.
- Filter Threat logs by threat category.
- Select .
- Add the Threat Category column so you can view the
Threat Category for each log entry:
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- To filter based on Threat Category:
- Use the log query builder to add a filter with the Attribute Threat Category and in the Value field, enter a Threat Category.
- Select the Threat Category of any log entry to add that category to the filter:
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- Filter ACC activity by threat category.
- Select ACC and add
Threat Category as a global filter:
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- Select the Threat Category to filter all ACC tabs.
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- Select ACC and add
Threat Category as a global filter:
- Create custom reports based on threat categories to receive
information about specific types of threats that the firewall has
detected.
- Select reports to add a new custom report or modify an existingone.
- Choose the Database to use as the source for the custom report—in this case, select Threat from either of the two types of database sources, summary databases and Detailed logs. Summary database data is condensed to allow a faster response time when generating reports. Detailed logs take longer to generate but provide an itemized and complete set of data for each log entry.
- In the Query Builder, add a report filter with the Attribute Threat Category and in the Value field, select a threat category on which to base your report.
- To test the new report settings, click Run Now.
- Click OK to save the report.
