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Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway

Log collector Network

You must have the Network integrations license pack to use this feature.

You can integrate Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway (formerly McAfee Web Gateway) with Sophos Central so that it sends data about web access requests to Sophos.

This integration uses a log collector hosted on a virtual machine (VM). Together they're called an integration appliance. The appliance receives third-party data and sends it to the Sophos Data Lake.

This page describes integration using an appliance on ESXi or Hyper-V. If you want to integrate using an appliance on AWS, see Integrations on AWS.

Key steps

The key steps in an integration are as follows:

  • Add an integration for this product. In this step, you create an image of the appliance.
  • Download and deploy the image on your VM. This becomes your appliance.
  • Configure Secure Web Gateway to send data to the appliance.

Requirements

Appliances have system and network access requirements. To check that you meet them, see Appliance requirements.

Add an integration

To add the integration, do as follows:

  1. In Sophos Central, go to Threat Analysis Center > Integrations > Marketplace.

  2. Click Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway.

    The Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway page opens. You can add integrations here and see a list of any you've already added.

  3. In Data Ingest (Security Alerts), click Add Configuration.

    Note

    If this is the first integration you've added, we'll ask for details about your internal domains and IPs. See My domains and IPs.

    Integration setup steps appears.

Configure the appliance

In Integration setup steps, you can configure a new appliance or use an existing one.

We assume here that you configure a new appliance. To do this, create an image as follows:

  1. Enter an integration name and description.
  2. Click Create new appliance.
  3. Enter a name and description for the appliance.
  4. Select the virtual platform. Currently we support VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V 6.0.6001.18016 (Windows Server 2016) or later.

  5. Specify the IP settings for the Internet-facing network ports. This sets up the management interface for the appliance.

    • Select DHCP to assign the IP address automatically.

      Note

      If you select DHCP, you must reserve the IP address.

    • Select Manual to specify network settings.

  6. Select the Syslog IP version and enter the Syslog IP address.

    You'll need this syslog IP address later, when you configure Secure Web Gateway to send data to your appliance.

  7. Select a Protocol. For SonicOS integration, this must be TCP.

    You must use the same protocol when you configure Secure Web Gateway to send data to your appliance.

  8. Click Save.

    We create the integration and it appears in your list.

    In the integration details, you can see the port number for the appliance. You'll need this later when you configure Secure Web Gateway to send data to it.

    It might take a few minutes for the appliance image to be ready.

Deploy the appliance

Restriction

If you're using ESXi, the OVA file is verified with Sophos Central, so it can only be used once. If you have to deploy another VM, you must create an OVA file again in Sophos Central.

Use the image to deploy the appliance as follows:

  1. In the list of integrations, in Actions, click the download action for your platform, for example Download OVA for ESXi.
  2. When the image download finishes, deploy it on your VM. See Deploy an appliance.

Configure Secure Web Gateway

You now configure Secure Web Gateway to send data from its access log to us, using syslog forwarding.

Note

You can configure multiple instances of Secure Web Gateway to send data to Sophos via the same appliance. After you finish integration, repeat the steps in this section for your other instances of Secure Web Gateway. You don't need to repeat the steps in Sophos Central.

To configure Secure Web Gateway, do as follows:

  1. In Secure Web Gateway, add a rule that makes access log data available to the syslog daemon.
  2. Adapt the rsylog.conf system file to let the daemon send data to a syslog server.

You must do this on every Secure Web Gateway you want to send access log data. You can also send other log data.

The data includes the date and time of a web access request, the user who sent the request, the requested URL, and other information.

You must send the data in TCP protocol and CEF format.

See About Sending access log data to a syslog server.