Sonicwall Productivity Reports

Crest implemented a UI feature of Category groups for Sonicwall Content Filter Service on Firewalls. Using groups, network activity can be mapped with a group using categories.

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Executive Summary

Sonicwall’s Content Filter Service(CFS) is applied on web category level and reports and analytics are generated on category level. There was no grouping available for the reports and data catalogue. CFS category groups will

allow CFS to tag each network activity with a CFS group. Ex. Productive, Unproductive. In addition to that, users can also create custom groups.

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SonicWall offers a firewall for everyone, and is rated a good value too. The company offers its SuperMassive line for the largest networks; NSA for mid range companies; and TZ series firewalls for small companies, featuring sandboxing, SSL inspection, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, application identification, content filtering, real-time threat handling, centralized management, analytics and reporting.

Business Challenge

Sonicwall provides a Content Filter Service in the firewalls. SonicWall CFS compares requested web sites against a massive database in the cloud containing millions of rated URLs, IP addresses and websites. It provides administrators with the tools to create and apply policies that allow or deny access to sites based on individual or group identity, or by time of day, for over 50 predefined categories. As all traffic in the firewall is tagged with these 50+ categories it becomes difficult to provide insights on the users/websites/web categories and reports.

Customer Solution

Crest Data implemented a UI feature of Category groups. All the categories can be grouped into a particular group. Ex. Productive, Unproductive etc. Admin can also create custom groups based on their requirements. Using groups, now network activity can be mapped with a group using categories. Crest data implemented listing pages of Users, websites and web categories and reports page which has the mapping to a CFS group. Following features were implemented:

1. CFS category groups

2. Reports by Connection, Browse time and Data transfer

3. Users, Websites and Web categories listing

4. Session Logs details

The Crest Difference

Productivity Reports helped:

1. Define custom CFS category group

2. Common module to display all reports related to CFS

3. Users, website and web category listing filter by time, CFS group etc.

4. Session log details for a particular user, website and web category