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Cisco FTD Integration

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| Version | 3.5.0 (View all) |
| Compatible Kibana version(s) | 8.11.0 or higher |
| Supported Serverless project types
What’s this? | Security
Observability |
| Subscription level
What’s this? | Basic |
| Level of support
What’s this? | Elastic |

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This integration is for Cisco Firepower Threat Defence (FTD) device’s logs. The package processes syslog messages from Cisco Firepower devices

It includes the following datasets for receiving logs over syslog or read from a file:

  • log dataset: supports Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) logs.

Cisco provides a range of Firepower devices, which may have different configuration steps. We recommend users navigate to the device specific configuration page, and search for/go to the "FTD Logging" or "Configure Logging on FTD" page for the specific device.

Due to unknown amount of sub-fields present under the field cisco.ftd.security, it is mapped as flattened datatype. This limited certain operations, such as aggregations, to be performed on sub-fields of cisco.ftd.security. See flattened dataype limitations for more details.

After analyzing more example logs, starting Cisco FTD integration version 2.21.0, a new field cisco.ftd.security_event is added with a known set of fields moved over from cisco.ftd.security. With this, users can now perform aggregations on sub-fields of cisco.ftd.security_event. In addition to already moved fields, if users desire to add more fields onto cisco.ftd.security_event from cisco.ftd.security, they can make use of @custom ingest pipeline that is automatically applied on every document at the end of the existing default pipeline.

To create and add processors to this @custom pipeline for Cisco FTD, users must follow below steps:

  1. In Kibana, navigate to Stack Management -> Ingest Pipelines.

  2. Click Create Pipeline -> New Pipeline.

  3. Add Name as logs-cisco_ftd.log@custom and an optional Description.

  4. Add processors to rename appropriate fields from cisco.ftd.security to cisco.ftd.security_event.

    • Under Processors, click Add a processor.
    • Say, you want to move field threat_name from cisco.ftd.security into cisco.ftd.security_event, then add a Rename processor with Field as cisco.ftd.security.threat_name and Target field as cisco.ftd.security_event.threat_name.
    • Optionally add Convert processor to convert the datatype of the renamed field under cisco.ftd.security_event.

Now that the fields are available under cisco.ftd.security_event, users can perform aggregations of sub-fields under cisco.ftd.security_event as desired.

The log dataset collects the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) logs.