This article describes how to generate a Cato GenAI Report that highlights GenAI usage in your account and the associated risks.
Overview
Cato provides a Predefined Report template that summarizes how GenAI is used in your account. The report can be run for your entire account or filtered by specific Sites or Users. This report can be used as a key part of your strategy to protect your organization and its sensitive data while enabling secure AI application usage. For more information, see Securing AI App Traffic.
You can generate the GenAI report as either a one-time or recurring report.
For more about working with reports, see Cato Reports.
Creating a Recurring GenAI Report
Create a new recurring report by defining the Filters for the items included in the report, as well as the Schedule which defines how often the report is generated - every two minutes, daily, weekly, or monthly. Generated reports are stored in the Cato Cloud, and they can be automatically emailed or downloaded. The Schedule also defines the time range that is covered by each report.
You can select a mailing list of email addresses for the recipients, which can include Cato Management Application admins, and external users.
For more information about Mailing Lists, see Working with Mailing Lists.
To create a recurring report:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Catalog tab, find and select the template you want to use to generate the report.
Click Generate > Create Schedule.
Enter a Report Name.
(Optional) In Filters, select specific sites or users for the predefined report.
By default, the predefined report includes all sites and users.
Define when the report will be generated and sent:
Select the Frequency.
For Weekly and Monthly scheduled reports, in Every select the day that the report is sent.
Select the timezone.
Select the export format: PDF or CSV.
In Subscriptions, select the Mailing List that receives the report.
You can click New to create a new mailing list.
Click Save Schedule. The report is added to the Saved Reports tab.
Generating a Recurring Report On Demand
Recurring reports are automatically generated based on their schedule settings. For example, a weekly report configured for Monday, is generated every Monday. You can also choose to manually generate a recurring report on demand, in which case the generated report uses the defined time range based on the current day. If an admin manually generates a weekly report on a Tuesday, the time range for the report is the previous 7 days starting from that Tuesday, regardless of the starting day of the recurring report. For more information about the time range of recurring reports, see Cato Reports.
To generate a recurring report on demand:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Saved Reports tab, find the recurring report and click Generate Now.
From the Generated PDFs tab, find the report and click Download.
Creating a One-Time GenAI Report
Create a new One-time report template, and define the Filters for the items included in the report. Then define the Time Range that the report covers.
To create a one-time report:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Catalog tab, select the template you want to use to generate the report.
Select Generate > Generate Now.
Enter a Report Name.
Define the relevant Filters for your report.
These are specific to the report type.Define the Timeframe and Timezone of the report.
Select the Format: PDF or CSV.
Click Generate.
The report is generated, and you can download it from the Generated tab.
Downloading Reports
Download your scheduled or one-time reports from the Generated tab. You can use the Reload button to refresh the Generated tab and see if a report is Ready to download. It may take a few minutes to generate reports with large amounts of data. Recurring reports are In Progress when they are automatically emailed. To download recurring reports, generate a new report in the Saved Reports tab and then download it. You can use the Reload button to refresh the reports to see whether it’s Ready to download.
Admins with viewer permissions are allowed to download reports.
To download a report:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Generated tab, find the report and click Download.
To delete a report, click
and select Delete.
Understanding the GenAI Report
These are the sections in the GenAI Report:
GenAI Usage
GenAI Applications Traffic: Traffic volume generated by GenAI applications, split into Download and Upstream
Sanctioned vs Unsanctioned Applications: Number of sanctioned and unsanctioned GenAI apps used
Top GenAI Applications by Usage: List of the most used GenAI apps in your environment
Top Categories by Usage: List of the most used GenAI app categories
Top Risky GenAI Applications: List of the most used risky GenAI apps
User Activities Over Time: Number of user activities on GenAI apps over time
Data Protection
Events by Action: Total number of Data Protection events created by GenAI apps, split by Allow and block
Violations by Data Profile: Proportion of each data type involved in Data Protection policy violations
Rules Hit Count: The number of times each Data Protection rule was enforced
Data Violations Over Time: The amount of data policy violations over time
GenAI Applications by Users
Applications: Summary of GenAI app usage in your account