Use Reports to Evaluate Internet Activity

Administrator Help | Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint URL Filtering | v8.5.x

Your product includes several reporting tools, accessed via the Forcepoint Security Manager, that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your web policies. (Log Server, a Windows-only component, must be installed to enable all reporting features except Real-Time Monitor.)

Dashboard charts provide threat, risk, usage, and system information to help you review Internet activity in your network at a glance. For most charts, the time period, chart style, and set of results shown can be customized. See The Status Dashboards.

Presentation reports include a list of predefined reports and report templates. Reports are available in bar chart, trend chart, and tabular formats.

Copy any predefined report to apply your own filters to create a custom report, or use a report template to create your report from scratch. See Presentation reports for complete details.

Investigative reports let you browse through log data interactively. The main page shows a summary-level bar chart of activity by risk class. Click the different elements on the page to update the chart or get a different view of the data.

See Investigative reports for details on the many ways you can view Internet use data.

The Report Center provides access to tools that allow you to create your own high-level and detailed reports that can be used to analyze logging data, including cloud apps data.

See Report Center to learn now to use each of the tools.

Application reports provide:

Information about the browsers and platforms from which Internet requests are originating

Details about cloud app use in your network

A search option to investigate activity associated with specific user agents

See Application reporting for more information.

(Forcepoint Web Security only) The Advanced File Analysis Report provides information about suspicious files sent to a Forcepoint Advanced Malware Detection tool for analysis, including a link to the full report generated by the advanced file analysis tool. See Advanced File Analysis report for more information.

Real-Time Monitor shows current Internet activity in your network, including the URLs being requested and the action applied to each request. With Forcepoint Web Security, the monitor also shows which sites were analyzed by Content Gateway. If a site is dynamically recategorized based on real-time analysis, both the original category and current category are shown.

See Real-Time Monitor for more information.


	Note In organizations that use delegated administration, reporting features may not be available to all administrators. See Delegated Administration and Reporting.