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NetIQ Security Reporting Center

Product Version Certified: 2.1 Windows and Solaris platforms
Certified for use with: Check Point Next Generation

Product Description: What is our firewall doing?
Are we being attacked?
Who are the biggest users of bandwidth?
Are our employees surfing the web appropriately?

These are typical questions Check Point customers ask that historically have been difficult to answer through mining of cryptic log files. NetIQ's Security Reporting Center solves this by analyzing the data in your firewall log files to generate valuable and actionable reports.

 
Key Features and Benefits
OPSEC Integration
Additional Information
 
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The Company: NetIQ is the leading provider of solutions for managing, securing and analyzing all key components of an enterprise computing infrastructure-from back-end networks and servers to front-line applications and Web servers. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with development and operational personnel in Houston, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina; Bellevue, Washington; and Portland, Oregon.   NetIQ
   
Key Features and Benefits

Your firewalls protect your network and the information housed within it from both internal and external attacks. But they also collect a wealth of information stored in their log files-information such as where hacker attacks originate, which employees send the most e-mail, how much bandwidth your organization uses and which employees are accessing inappropriate web sites.

NetIQ's Security Reporting Center analyzes the data in your firewall log files to generate valuable reports. It also helps you optimize the security of your network, ensure that employees use network and Internet privileges appropriately and manage network bandwidth requirements.

Key Benefits

  • Optimizes system and network resource utilization. Delivers detailed reports such as bandwidth by user, protocol or department, allowing you to understand your organization's network bandwidth requirements. Bandwidth reports help you identify usage peaks so you can plan for future needs and determine optimal times for maintenance and repair.
  • Ensures appropriate system and network usage by employees. Lets you monitor use of commonly abused services, such as web browsing and e-mail. For example, reports show which users spend the most time on the Web and which sites they visit most frequently. They also indicate which employees are viewing inappropriate content.
  • Promotes better security. Provides advance warning of vulnerabilities or holes in firewall rules and reports on critical violations and conditions of your firewalls. With Security Reporting Center, you can take proactive measures to protect your networked assets.
  • Reduces management costs of heterogeneous firewalls. Centralizes reporting and security events from more than 40 firewalls and proxy servers into a single console, cutting costs and resource requirements for firewall maintenance.
  • Delivers critical information about your firewalls. Gives you deeper insight into what's happening around your firewall with more than 200 easy-to-interpret tables and graphs. You can use a calendar interface to access summary-level reports and can drill down for more detail.
OPSEC Integration

Security Reporting Center integrates with the Log Export API (LEA) of the OPSEC architecture in VPN-1/FireWall-1. When LEA is used, a secure connection is set up between NetIQ Firewall Suite and VPN-1/FireWall-1. This connection provides the mechanism that safely and securely transfers data between the firewall and the analysis engine. By encrypting data at the firewall, LEA ensures that firewall logs are not tampered with during transport. The LEA connection also facilitates the creation of real-time reports without the need to export complete log files at every update interval, saving time and bandwidth resources.