Cerberus SFTP Server

Version : Cerberus SFTP Server 10.0.8.0 or Above.

Cerberus FTP Server is a Windows-based FTP server with support for encrypted FTP sessions via FTPS and SFTP as well as web client support via HTTP and HTTPS.

Cerberus FTP Server can be integrated with Netsurion Open XDR, which monitors the activity occurring in the FTP server – like file uploads and downloads, user logons and logoffs, password expirations, and disabled users. Netsurion Open XDR helps you visualize Cerberus FTP activities in a dashboard, which triggers alerts when a user is disabled or an IP address is blocked.

Netsurion Open XDR monitors events from Cerberus SFTP Server. Flex reports, alerts, and dashboards help you analyze all security-related events. Through alerts, knowledge base solutions, and reports, Netsurion Open XDR helps you correct problems long before a catastrophic failure occurs.

Netsurion Data Source Integration for Cerberus SFTP server allows you to monitor the following components

Once events are received into Netsurion, Reports, Knowledge Objects and Categories can be configured into Netsurion Open XDR. Netsurion Open XDR monitors all the Cerberus SFTP Server events, some of which are given below.

  • Security – Login and Logout events, Account Blocked, User Disabled and password Expired.
  • Compliance – User management and File Operations,  File Activities.    
  • Operation – User sessions, Changes and Activities

Once Cerberus SFTP Server is configured to deliver events to Netsurion Open XDR Manager; Knowledge objects and reports can be configured into Netsurion Open XDR.

The following are the key Data Source Integration available in Netsurion Open XDR.

Alerts

Type Name Description
Security Cerberus SFTP Server – IP Blocked This Alert provides Blocked IP information.
Security Cerberus SFTP Server – User Account Blocked This Alert provides User’s blocked Account Information.
Operations Cerberus SFTP Server – User Disable This Alert provides information related to User’s disabled account.
Operations Cerberus SFTP Server – User’s Password Expire This alert provide User’s Password Expiry information.
Compliance Cerberus SFTP Server – File Deleted This Alert provides information related to File deleted.

Reports

Type Name Description
Security Cerberus SFTP Server – IP Blocked This report provides Blocked IP information.
Security Cerberus SFTP Server – Login Activities This report provides Information related to Cerberus SFTP server login-logoff activity.
Operations Cerberus SFTP Server – User Account Activities This report provides information related to User Account activities (User Account Blocked, User Disabled, New Account Request, Account Password Expiring, etc.
Compliance Cerberus SFTP Server – File Operations This report provides information related to File operations (File Deleted, Public File Shared, File Transfer, File Activities, Directory Created etc.

Documentation

The configuration details are consistent with Netsurion Open XDR 9.x and later amd Cerberus SFTP.

Download Integration Guide for configuration instructions and more information.