7.2 Events Overview – Dashboards

Select > Reports > Portal > Repository > Standard Content > Foundation.

To identify threats in your environment, you might want to have an overview of the events that occur the most often or affect the most devices and hosts. You could also watch for events that rarely occur to check for unusual activity.

To monitor event activity, use the following dashboards:

Least Common Events

Provides charts and a table to help you identify the events that have the fewest reported occurrences. You can view the results by vendor, such as Amazon, or product, such as Microsoft Windows.

Most Common Events

Provides charts and a table to help you identify the common events that affect your environment by vendor, such as Amazon, or product, such as Microsoft Windows.

Most Common Events by Severity

Provides a table to help you track the events by count and severity.

Reporting Devices

Provides charts and a table to help you identify the hosts and devices with the most reported security events. You can view charts summarizing the most common severity of the events; top 20 events by vendor such as Microsoft or McAfee; top 20 events types of events, such as stopped services, and the top 20 events by class ID, such as a CVE.