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Updated on 2025-07-23 GMT+08:00

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Viewing Attack Defense Information on the Dashboard

Scenario

During routine network security O&M, enterprises need to know the security status of traffic at any time. CFW provides the security dashboard, which allows you to quickly view the protection statistics of the attack defense function (IPS, reverse shell prevention, sensitive directory scan prevention, and antivirus) for the inbound/outbound Internet traffic and VPC border traffic within seven days. In this way, you can adjust protection settings based on your traffic protection status in a timely manner.

Constraints

On the Statistics Dashboard tab page, there is a delay in collecting statistics in the Attacks module. The value varies according to the query time range. For details, see Table 1. To query real-time data, check logs. For details, see Log Audit.

**Table 1** Attack trend statistics
Time Range	Value
Last 1 hour	Take the average value from the previous 1-minute period, rounded to the nearest minute. For example, when querying at 08:45:59, the statistical time range will be from 07:45:00 to 08:45:00.
Last 24 hours	Take the average value from the previous 5-minute period, rounded to the nearest 5-minute interval. For example, when querying at 2025/06/30 08:48:59, the statistical time range will be from 2025/06/29 08:45:00 to 2025/06/30 08:45:00.
Last 7 days	Take the average value from the previous 1-hour period, rounded to the nearest hour. For example, when querying at 2025/06/30 08:45:59, the statistical time range will be from 2025/06/23 08:00:00 to 2025/06/30 08:00:00.
Custom	5 minutes to 6 hours: Take the average value over a 1-minute period, which is the same as that of Last 1 hour. 6 hours (included) to 3 days: Take the average value over a 5-minute period, which is the same as that of Last 24 hours. 3 days (included) to 7 days (included): Take the average value over a 30-minute period, which is the same as that of Last 7 days.

Viewing IPS Protection Information on the Dashboard

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
(Optional) Switch to another firewall instance. Select a firewall from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
In the navigation pane, choose Attack Defense > Security Dashboard.
In the upper part of the page, click the Internet Borders or Inter-VPC Borders tab.

Check the attack defense statistics of the firewall instance. You can select the query time in the upper right corner of each module.

Security Dashboard: Number of attacks detected by IPS, numbers of allowed and blocked accesses, and number of attacked ports.
Attacks: Number of times that IPS blocks or allows traffic.

Visualizations: Top 5 items ranked by specific parameters of the attacks detected or blocked by IPS. For details, see Table 2. Click a data record to view attack event details. For details, see Table 1.

**Table 2** Security dashboard statistics parameters
Parameter	Description
Attack Types	Attack type.
Top Internal Attack Source IP Addresses	IP addresses of the assets that are on your cloud but launch attacks on external IP addresses.
Top External Attack Source IP Addresses	External IP addresses that launch attacks on your cloud assets.
Top External Attack Source Regions	Regions of the external IP addresses that launch attacks on your cloud assets.
Top Attack Destination IP Addresses	Destination IP addresses in attacks.
Top Attacked Ports	Attacked ports.

Top attack statistics: Top 50 attacks detected or blocked by IPS within a specified time range.
- Top Attack Targets: Destination IP addresses, ports, and applications.
- Top Attack Sources: Source IP addresses and types.

References

For details about logs, see Attack Event Logs.
For details about attack defense capabilities, see Attack Defense Overview.
For details about how to handle incorrect IPS blocking, see What Do I Do If IPS Blocks Normal Services?.
For details about how to modify the IPS action, see Configuring Intrusion Prevention. For details about how to modify the virus defense action, see Configuring Virus Defense.