AFA dashboards

This section explains how to view dashboards in AFA and how to use the AlgoSec Reporting Tool.

AFA dashboards provide the ability to quickly and easily view a summary of risks, compliance, optimizations, and/or changes for all devices.

Note: For more details, see AlgoSec Reporting Tool.

Built-in AFA dashboards

AFA provides the following built-in AFA dashboards, which display data for all devices defined in the ALL_FIREWALLS group.

Summary

Displayed by default when logging in to AFA. Modify this default in the AFA Administration area.For more details, see Define default dashboard.

Includes the following charts:

  • Risks per 16 devices with the most High severity risks in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the number of high, suspected high, medium, and low risks per device, for the top 16 devices. There are four bars per device.

  • Security rating over time for devices in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the average security rating over all devices, over time.

  • Total Number of Rules per Device in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the total number of rules per device, for the top 25 devices.

  • Number of changes in the last 30 days in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the total number of changes to all devices, over the last 30 days.

    Note: This chart will have no data for devices which have monitoring turned off.
Baseline Compliance

Includes the following charts:

  • Devices with lowest baseline compliance score in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the 20 lowest baseline compliance scores per firewall.

  • Number of devices that have passing baseline score (over 5) in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the number of firewalls meeting over 50% of the baseline requirements.

  • Baseline compliance score over time for devices in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the average and minimum baseline compliance scores of the ALL_FIREWALLS group.
Changes

Includes the following charts:

  • 20 devices with the most changes in the last 30 days in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the total number of changes on each device for the top 20 devices, over the last 30 days.

    Note: This chart will have no data for devices which have monitoring turned off.

  • Number of changes in the last 30 days in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the total number of changes to all devices, over the last 30 days.

    Note: This chart will have no data for devices which have monitoring turned off.
Optimizations

Includes the following charts:

  • Number of Covered Rules per Device on group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the number of covered rules per device, for the top 25 devices.

  • Number of Special Case Rules per Device on group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the number of redundant special case rules per device, for the top 25 devices.

  • Number of Unused Rules per Device on group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the number of unused rules per device, for the top 25 devices.

  • Total Number of Rules per Device on group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the total number of rules per device, for the top 25 devices.
Compliance

AFA has a compliance dashboard for each enabled regulatory compliance report.

Each one includes the following charts:

  • Devices with lowest compliance score in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the 20 lowest compliance scores per firewall.

  • Number of devices by compliance score color in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the number of firewalls that have green, yellow or red compliance colors.

  • Compliance score over time for devices in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the average and minimum compliance scores of the ALL_FIREWALLS group.
Risks

Includes the following charts:

  • Number of devices by leading risk severity in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the number of devices whose highest risk is high, suspected high, medium, and low.

  • Risks per 16 devices with the most High severity risks in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A bar chart showing the number of high, suspected high, medium, and low risks per device, for the top 16 devices. There are four bars per device.

  • Number of devices by leading risk severity in group ALL_FIREWALLS.

    A trend chart showing the number of devices whose highest risk is high, suspected high, medium, and low, over time.

View AFA dashboards

This procedure describes how to view all built-in and custom dashboards defined in AFA.

Do the following:

  1. In the main menu on the left, click Dashboards.

    The Dashboards menu expands, displaying all dashboards defined. For example:

    Dashboards appear in red or orange to indicate failures, as follows:

    • Red dashboards indicate that the last report generation had failed.
    • Orange dashboards indicate that real-time monitoring or log collection have failed.
  2. Click the node for the dashboard you want to view.

The selected dashboard and it's charts appear in the workspace.