New Sophos Firewall Reports in Sophos Central

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New Security Policy Assessment (SPA) report now available.

Feb 08 2024 By

Your Sophos Firewall team is pleased to announce the new Security Policy Assessment (SPA) report has been added to Sophos Central Firewall Reporting. This customizable report provides a management-level overview of firewall protection activity that makes an excellent tool for showing the value and protection Sophos Firewall delivers. It also includes an inventory report that provides a snapshot of your managed firewall inventory, health status, and license details.

It can be found in Sophos Central under Firewall Management > Report Generator.  Select the Security Posture Assessment report from the Report Templates drop-down on the left of the screen.  Add components and arrange them to create your desired report and then download or schedule the report and grab it from the Scheduled Exports tab.

What you get

  • Easily group reports into a single package
  • Easily schedule, share or review the full report package
  • New Sankey visualization for threat activity
  • Shows firewall protection activity to highlight value
  • Reveal risky web and application activity the firewall is seeing
  • Limit to Top-x number of items (top 10, 25, 50, 100, or custom)
  • View inventory and status with the new firewall inventory report
  • Minimal branding

Requirements

Firewalls must be configured to use Sophos Central Firewall Reporting, and should have either an Xstream Protection license bundle, or be associated with a CFR-Advanced license for the SPA report to be accessible.

About the Author

Chris McCormack is a network security specialist at Sophos where he has been focused on firewall and network protection since joining Sophos in 2008. When not evangelizing Sophos network security products, Chris specializes in providing advice and insight into the latest threats and network protection technologies and strategies.