Security Events and Traffic Logs

Security Information Event Management (SIEM) systems are solutions that specialize in combining security information and security event information together into a single management platform. The security and event information will originate from 3rd party security solutions that are configured to forward this information to the SIEM.

Multicloud Defense supports viewing security event information directly within the UI. These events are available under the Investigate > Flow Analytics section. The events are categorized and viewable as follows:

Category

Type

Description

Flow Logs FLOW_LOG Information related to the different stages of a traffic flow
Firewall Events APPID Traffic matched based on Application ID (OpenAppID)
GEOIP Traffic sourced from or destined to a Geo IP (MaxMind)
L4_FW Traffic matched based on layer4 information (Source/Dest IP/Port and Protocol)
MALICIOUS_IP Traffic sourced from or destined to a malicious IP (Trustwave)
SNI Traffic matched based on SNI information
Network Threats AV Traffic where a virus has been detected (ClamAV)
DPI Traffic where an IDS/IPS threat has been detected (TALOS)
DLP Traffic where sensitive data is being exfiltration
Web Protection WAF Traffic where a web application threat has been detected (ModSecurity)
L7DOS Traffic that is contributing to a layer7 DOS attack
URL Filtering URLFILTER Traffic that matches a URL category or URL (BrightCloud)
FQDN Filtering FQDNFILTER Traffic that matches a FQDN category or FQDN (BrightCloud)
HTTPS Logs HTTP_REQUEST Information related to web-based traffic (HTTP)
TLS_ERROR Information related to TLS errors
TLS_LOG Information related to TLS behavior
Traffic Summary Logs SESSION_SUMMARY Summary information on each processed traffic session
Note

Flow Logs are deprecated in 2.10 and later gateway releases. The information contained within each flow Log is made available as part of the session information available in Traffic Summary > Logs.

Each of the event categories can be sent to a SIEM using a log forwarding profile. The SIEMs currently supported by Multicloud Defense are:

A log forwarding profile can be operated on using the steps outlined below: