Firewall Analyzer collects and archives the logs obtained from proxies, analyzes them, and generates useful corporate internet access information reports. These reports provide network security administrators and managed security service providers (MSSP) with important insight into the efficiency of their corporate Internet usage. As a proxy server log analyzer application, Firewall Analyzer supports BlueCoat, Microsoft ISA, and Squid proxy servers. Firewall Analyzer provides the following reports based on proxy server log analysis:
Firewall Analyzer presents a instant view of bandwidth usage through the proxy server. With the Live Reports, bandwidth consumption for various periods like day, week, month, and year is available in graphical format. Using these reports administrators can monitor for sudden spike in traffic and conduct forensic or root-cause analysis and detect network anomalies.
You will be able to find out which of the hosts, users are more active in the intranet, Internet. If there is any abnormality you can investigate and find out the cause using the Top Talkers report. You can also obtain the details of the conversations that have taken place between the source and destination and further drill down to view the top web sites visited, URLs, and more.
You will be able to find out which are the websites, domains, and web pages most visited from your company. With this information, you can judge the purpose of Internet access of your company employees. Get the pattern of websites accessed by your employees. Another important aspect is the users denied for Internet access at the proxy server level and the type of requests denied. From this you can have intelligence about the rogue user trying to bypass the proxy server and kind of access requests.
If you want to get the details of the usage of the proxy server, you will be interested in the following code wise usage reports such as, cache code, peer status code, and HTTP status code. You can also get a report on HTTP operation wise usage. With this information, you can fine tune the proxy server to control and channelize the company's Internet traffic.
You can monitor the category of websites that are allowed and denied. This will be helpful to con troll the web traffic of your company. You can add the relevant category of websites to the allowed list and the irrelevant category of web sites to the denied list.
With proxy server reports, you can have a better control over the company's web traffic.
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