Viewing Attack Defense Information on the Dashboard

Viewing IPS Protection Information on the Dashboard

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
4. (Optional) Switch to another firewall instance: Select a firewall from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Attack Defense > Security Dashboard.
6. In the upper part of the page, click the Internet Borders or Inter-VPC Borders tab.
7. View statistics about protection rules of a firewall instance. You can select a query duration from the drop-down list.
   • 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 certain parameters regarding the attacks detected or blocked by IPS. For more information, see Table 1. You can click a record to view attack details. For more information, see Table 1.

     Table 1 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 Sources: Source IP addresses and types.
     • Top Attack Targets: Destination IP addresses, ports, and applications.
     

     • If the IP address is normal, click Add to Whitelist in the Operation column to add it to the whitelist. CFW will directly allow traffic from the IP address.
     • If the IP address is malicious, click Create Address Group or Add to Address Group to add one or multiple IP addresses to an address group. Then, manually configure the protection rule to block malicious attacks. For details, see Adding Protection Rules to Block or Allow Traffic.

Related Operations

For details about logs, see Attack Event Logs.