Event Types in Security Cloud Control

When filtering ASA and Secure Firewall Threat Defense events logged by Secure Logging Analytics (SaaS), you can choose from a list of ASA and FTD event types that Security Cloud Control supports. From the Security Cloud Control menu, navigate Analytics > Event Logging and click the filter icon to choose events. These event types represent groups of syslog IDs. The table that follows shows which syslog IDs are included in which event type. If you want to learn more about a specific syslog ID, you can search for it in the Cisco ASA Series Syslog Messages or the Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Syslog Messages guides.

Some syslog events have the additional attribute "EventName." You can filter the events table to find events using the EventName attribute by filtering by attribute:value pairs. See Event Name Attributes for Syslog Events.

The NetFlow events are different from syslog events. The NetFlow filter searches for all NetFlow event IDs that resulted in an NSEL record. Those NetFlow event IDs are defined in the Cisco ASA NetFlow Implementation Guide.

The following table describes the event types that Security Cloud Control supports and lists the syslog or NetFlow event numbers that correspond to the event types:

Filter Name

Description

Corresponding Syslog Event or Netflow Event

AAA

These are events that the system generates when failed or invalid attempts happen to authenticate, authorize, or use up resources in the network, when AAA is configured.

109001-109035

113001-113027

BotNet

These events get logged when a user attempts to access a malicious network, which might contain a malware-infected host, possibly a BotNet, or when the system detects traffic to or from a domain or an IP address in the dynamic filter block list.

338001-338310

Failover

These events get logged when the system detects errors in stateful and stateless failover configurations or errors in the secondary firewall unit when a failover occurs.

101001-101005, 102001, 103001-103007, 104001-104004, 105001-105048

210001-210022

311001-311004

709001-709007

Firewall Denied

These events get generated when the firewall system denies traffic of a network packet for various reasons, ranging from a packet drop because of the security policy to a drop because the system received a packet with the same source IP and destination IP, which could potentially mean an attack on the network.

Firewall Denied events may be contained in a NetFlow and may be reported with NetFlow event IDs as well as syslog IDs.

106001, 106007, 106012, 106013, 106015, 106016, 106017, 106020, 106021, 106022, 106023, 106025, 106027

Firewall Traffic

These are events that get logged depending on the various connection attempts in the network, user identities, time stamps, terminated sessions, and so on.

Firewall Traffic events may be contained in a NetFlow and may be reported with NetFlow event IDs as well as syslog IDs.

106001-106100, 108001-108007, 110002-110003

201002-201013, 209003-209005, 215001

302002-302304, 302022-302027, 303002-303005, 313001-313008, 317001-317006, 324000-324301, 337001-337009

400001-400050, 401001-401005, 406001-406003, 407001-407003, 408001-408003, 415001-415020, 416001, 418001-418002, 419001-419003, 424001-424002, 431001-431002, 450001

500001-500005, 508001-508002

607001-607003, 608001-608005, 609001-609002, 616001

703001-703003, 726001

IPsec VPN

These events are logged in an IPsec VPN-configured firewall when mismatches occur in IPsec security associations or when the system detects an error in the IPsec packets it receives.

402001-402148, 602102-602305, 702304-702307

NAT

These events are logged in a NAT-configured firewall when NAT entries are created or deleted and when all the addresses in a NAT pool are used up and exhausted.

201002-201013, 202001-202011, 305005-305012

SSL VPN

These events are logged in an SSL VPN-configurated firewall when WebVPN sessions get created or terminated, user access errors, and user activities.

716001-716060, 722001-722053, 723001-723014, 724001-724004, 725001-725015

NetFlow

These events are logged around the IP network traffic as network packets enter and exit the interfaces, timestamps, user identities, and the amount of data transferred.

0, 1, 2, 3, 5

Connection

You can generate events for connections as users generate traffic that passes through the system. Enable connection logging on access rules to generate these events. You can also enable logging on Security Intelligence policies and SSL decryption rules to generate connection events.

Connection events contain data about the detected sessions. The information available for any individual connection event depends on several factors, but in general includes:

  • Basic connection properties: timestamp, source and destination IP address, ingress and egress zones, the device that handled the connection, and so on.

  • Additional connection properties discovered or inferred by the system: applications, requested URLs, or users associated with the connection, and so on.

  • Metadata about why the connection was logged: which configuration handled the traffic, whether the connection was allowed or blocked, details about encrypted and decrypted connections, and so on.

430002, 430003

Intrusion

The system examines the packets that traverse your network for malicious activity that could affect the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of a host and its data. When the system identifies a possible intrusion, it generates an intrusion event, which is a record of the date, time, type of exploit, and contextual information about the source of the attack and its target. Intrusion events are generated for any intrusion rule set to block or alert, regardless of the logging configuration of the invoking access control rule.

430001

File

File events represent files that the system detected, and optionally blocked, in network traffic based on your file policies. You must enable file logging on the access rule that applies the file policy to generate these events.

When the system generates a file event, the system also logs the end of the associated connection regardless of the logging configuration of the invoking access control rule.

430004

Malware

The system can detect malware in network traffic as part of your overall access control configuration. AMP for Firepower can generate a malware event, containing the disposition of the resulting event, and contextual data about how, where, and when the malware was detected. You must enable file logging on the access rule that applies the file policy to generate these events.

The disposition of a file can change, for example, from clean to malware or from malware to clean. If AMP for Firepower queries the AMP cloud about a file, and the cloud determines the disposition has changed within a week of the query, the system generates retrospective malware events.

430005

Security Intelligence

Security Intelligence events are a type of connection event generated by the Security Intelligence policy for each connection that is blocked or monitored by the policy. All Security Intelligence events have a populated Security Intelligence Category field.

For each of these events, there is a corresponding "regular" connection event. Because the Security Intelligence policy is evaluated before many other security policies, including access control, when a connection is blocked by Security Intelligence, the resulting event does not contain the information that the system would have gathered from subsequent evaluation, for example, user identity.

430002, 430003