Gaining Internet activity insights and keeping abreast about security events is a challenging task as the security appliance generates a huge quantity of security and traffic logs. With a package of features, Firewall Analyzer's Sophos reporting capability fit like a glove enabling you to strengthen the network security. Firewall Analyzer lets you collect, archive, analyze Sophos device logs and generate security and forensic reports.

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• Sophos Management Communications System
• Bandwidth Management Appliance

Traffic Shaping is a method to guarantee a bandwidth relationship between individual applications or protocols. It is a traffic management method that allows you to allocate network resources to both mission critical and normal data, based on the type of network traffic, and the priority you assign to that traffic. May 31, 2019 Sophos XG Firewall: How to configure MAC-based bandwidth management. May 31, 2019 Micheal Firewall, Sophos 0.

Sophos firewall security and capacity management

With Firewall Analyzer, a Sophos firewall monitoring toll, you can access predefined reports that help in analyzing bandwidth usage and understanding security and network activities. These reports help you to study the security vulnerability with top denied hosts, blocked URL hits, attacks, targets, virus, affected hosts, spam, receiving hosts.

To prevent Sophos AutoUpdate from using all your bandwidth when you need it for other purposes (such as downloading your email), you can limit the amount of bandwidth it uses. On the Configure menu, click Updating. Click the Primary location or Secondary location tab. Select the Limit amount of bandwidth used check, and move the slider to specify the amount of bandwidth Sophos. Sophos Whitepaper March 221 3 What’s New in Sophos Firewall Sophos Central Firewall Reporting and Management This release includes support for new firewall reporting and management capabilities being launched simultaneously on Sophos Central, including a rich, powerful new reporting suite and group firewall management tools. Cyberoam customers and partners will benefit from Sophos strengths in threat protection, endpoint protection, secure Wi-Fi and innovations like Sophos RED (Remote Ethernet Device) to help protect large distributed networks.

Sophos firewall bandwidth capacity planning

Python scrapy selenium. Sophos firewall trend reports in Firewall Analyzer trace patterns in network behavior and bandwidth usage over time. Analysis of trend reports gives better insight into the nature of web site traffic or network traffic, and helps you make decisions on capacity planning, business risk assessment, bandwidth management, traffic shaping, and network security posture.

Bandwidth Management Tools

Sophos firewall bandwidth monitoring

Firewall Analyzer, a Sophos bandwidth monitor tool, provides a unique way to monitor the Internet traffic of the network in near real-time. Firewall traffic data is collected and analyzed to get granular details about the traffic across each firewall. There is no requirement for any probes or collection agents to get these details on the traffic.

Sophos traffic analyzer

Sophos Management Communications System

Firewall Analyzer is a Sophos traffic monitor tool. It measures network traffic based on the analysis of logs received from different network firewalls. Firewall logs are collected, archived, and analyzed to get granular details about traffic across Sophos firewall devices.

Employee internet usage monitoring

With Firewall Analyzer for Sophos, you can maximize the business usage of Internet bandwidth using employee Internet monitoring. You can fine tune the Firewall policies to block or restrict bandwidth guzzling web sites and effectively control employee Internet usage. This will ensure that the bandwidth is available for smooth functioning of the business.

Bandwidth Management Appliance

Sophos firewall alerts

Apart from exhaustive firewall reports with respect to network security, Firewall Analyzer offers comprehensive alarms and notifications.
The Sophos firewall log viewer tool generates alarms for anomalous security criteria, bandwidth values, and any normal criteria of security interest.
Alarms can be notified via email and SMS. It can trigger a script to achieve various threat mitigation activities. Alarms are also displayed in the UI screen.

To configure Sophos firewalls, refer the Sophos UTM and Sophos XG help pages.
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