This article describes how to generate Cato XOps Investigations reports that highlight XOps story investigations, summarize data for security events, and present insights about your account's overall security posture.
Note:
XOps is Cato’s unified analytics layer for security and operations, offering insights and guided remediation. XOps has replaced XDR, for more information, see XOps FAQ.
Overview
Cato provides Predefined Report templates that summarize data related to the XOps (formerly XDR) stories investigated for your account. This lets you generate an XOps report that presents an overview of all story investigations, as well as breakdowns that focus on the most important ones, such as for malicious and suspicious stories.
Create the template for a recurring or one-time report and define the report time range. By default, the Predefined Report template for the XOps Investigations report shows story data for the past week.
For more about working with reports, see Cato Reports.
Known Limitations
XOps Investigations reports do not support filtering by sites or SDP users. If any filters are configured, they will not be expressed in the report and it will show data for all sites and SDP users.
Creating a Recurring XOps Investigations Report
Create a new Scheduled report and define the Report Schedule , which defines how often the report is generated - daily, weekly, or monthly. Generated reports are stored in the Cato Cloud, and they can be automatically emailed or downloaded. The Report Schedule also defines the time range that is covered by each report.
You can select the 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 XOps Investigations report:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Catalog tab, select the template you want to use to generate the report.
Click Generate > Create Schedule.
Enter a Report Name.
Define when the report will be generated and sent:
Select the Frequency that the report is automatically sent: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
For Weekly and Monthly Scheduled reports, in Every select the day that the report is sent.
In Send to Mailing List, 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 XOps Investigations Report
You can create a one-time report based on the XOps Investigations template. You define the Filters for the items included in the report.
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.
In Filters, define the Timeframe and Timezone of the report.
Click Generate, the report is generated and you download it from the Generated PDFs tab.
Understanding the XOps Investigations Report
These are the sections in the XOps Investigations report:
Executive Overview
Overall totals of events and stories for the selected time range, including:
All Events: The total number of events for the account
Security Events: The number of events generated by the Cato security engines enabled for the account
Investigated Stories: The total number of Detection & Response stories that were investigated and given a verdict in the Stories Workbench
Suspicious and Malicious Stories: The number of stories that were investigated and given a verdict of Suspicious or Malicious in the Stories Workbench
Investigated Stories by Verdict: Breakdown by verdict of all investigated stories
Investigated Stories Over Time: Graph showing the amount of investigated stories over time, including a breakdown by the threat type (for example: Suspicious Activity, Reputation, Policy Violation, Malware)
Malicious and Suspicious Stories
Shows information about stories that received a verdict of Malicious or Suspicious, including:
Malicious & Suspicious Stories by Threat Type: Number of Malicious or Suspicious stories according to the type of threat (for example, Suspicious Activity, Reputation, Policy Violation, Malware)
Malicious & Suspicious Stories by Site: Number of Malicious or Suspicious stories according to site with the traffic that generated the story
Malicious Stories by Severity: Chart showing the number of Malicious stories by severity (High, Medium, Low)
Malicious & Suspicious Stories by Location: Graph showing Number of Malicious or Suspicious stories according to the location of the threat. Locations are based on the targets and sources in the story, and therefore one story can have multiple threat locations.
General Security Posture
Top Blocked Applications Internet Firewall: Top applications blocked by the Internet Firewall, with the hit count
Top Blocked Categories Internet Firewall: Top categories blocked by the Internet Firewall, with the hit count
Top Blocked Applications WAN Firewall: Top applications blocked by the WAN Firewall with the hit count
Top Blocked Categories WAN Firewall: Top categories blocked by the WAN Firewall with the hit count
IPS Events by Risk Level: Chart showing breakdown of IPS block events by risk level
Anti-Malware Block Events Graph showing all the block events for the Anti-Malware service over the time range of the report
Investigation Audit
This section lets you quickly review all the XOps story investigations that reached a verdict during the report time range. The information in the audit table reflects the state of the investigations at the time the report was generated.
These are the table columns:
Link to Story: Click to open the drill-down page for the story in the Stories Workbench
Creation Date: Date the story was created
Indication: Indicator of attack for the story. For more about Indications, see Using the Indications Catalog
Type: The XOps engine that created the story.
Classification of the threat type. For example: Suspicious Target, C&C, Suspicious Browser Extension, Scanner
Verdict for the story as determined by an analyst
Severity of the story as determined by an analyst (possible values: Low, Medium, High)
Site: The site on your network with the traffic that generated the story.
Source: IP address, name of device, or SDP user on your network involved in the story
Status: The status of the story investigation. Possible values include: Open, Closed, Pending more info (including number of days pending)