With organizations embracing dynamic work culture stakeholders now access the company intranet from the comforts of their home or from public networks or subsidiary sites through VPNs. Network administrators now need to monitor and analyze the activities being performed over the VPN. From the compliance and auditing perspective, you would like to see who connects, when, and what are the activities being performed.
Firewall Analyzer will be very handy for the above such requirements since you will be able to obtain Security Reports like "Denied Attempts", "Compromising Attempts", "Attacks", and "Port Scans", as well as auditing reports like "Top VPN Users", "Top failed vpn logins" etc.
Firewall Analyzer supports both Remote Host VPNs (PPTP,L2TP, and IPSEC) and Site-to-Site VPNs from vendors like Cisco, SonicWALL, WatchGuard, NetScreen, and others.
VPN Reports give detailed statistics on VPN usage. Reports include drill down details on top VPN hosts, top protocols used by the VPN, and bandwidth used by the VPN during peak and off-peak hours. Trend reports show you VPN usage trends over time.
Top VPN users reports will be very handy if you have Remote Host VPNs configured in your environment. It basically gives you the users connected to your VPN and the amount of traffic consumed by them.
Top Protocol Groups, gives you an overview of what kind of protocol is used in your VPN network. This will be very useful in the case of Site To Site VPN. Some firewalls produce application layer protocol information in the VPN logs and some might not. For the firewalls that are producing protocol information in the logs, this report can give excellent insights.
When you have multiple VPNs in your network, you will be interested in seeing the amount of traffic that is going to search VPN. VPN usage reports exactly addresses this requirement.
Provides VPN usage details for a group of users with details on number of hits, duration of usage, and total bytes of VPN traffic.