Cisco Firewall Reports Built for HR Investigations and Compliance
Cyfin connects directly to your Cisco Firepower or ASA syslog and transforms raw log data into noise-free, human-only web activity reports. Cyfin is agentless: no changes to your existing infrastructure, no endpoint agents, and no IT involvement once configured.
Your Cisco Logs Are Not HR Reports
Your Cisco firewall captures everything that happens on your network. But what it captures and what HR needs to see are two completely different things. A single website visit can generate over 100 individual connection records in the raw log. Automated background traffic (software updates, cloud sync, browser telemetry) is recorded right alongside deliberate employee browsing. The data is in technical notation: IP addresses and domain fragments, not the recognizable website names HR needs for an investigation or a disciplinary conversation.
For government agencies, educational institutions, and organizations in regulated industries, the stakes are particularly high. Web use investigations need records that are accurate, consistent, and easy to review. When a policy violation arises, IT must spend significant time manually extracting, interpreting, and sanitizing log data for each request, and the output may still not give HR a clear, reliable picture of what a person actually did. HR is dependent on IT for something that should be self-service.
Cyfin reads your Cisco Firepower or ASA log data continuously, filters out all non-human background traffic, and reconstructs individual browsing sessions from hundreds of raw connection records. What HR receives are clean, accurate reports with real website names, session durations, and user activity: organized for human review, reflecting what a person actually did, and requiring no changes to your existing Cisco infrastructure.
What Cyfin Delivers
Human-Only Activity Reports
All automated background traffic is filtered out before any report is generated. What HR sees is exclusively deliberate employee browsing: no noise, no misattribution, no technical clutter.
Session Reconstruction
Hundreds of raw connection records are rebuilt into individual browsing sessions with start time and duration. One website visit appears as one readable event, not 100 ambiguous log entries.
HR Self-Service Investigations
HR managers run their own investigation reports through a secure self-service portal, without submitting requests to IT. IT configures Cyfin once; HR operates independently from that point forward.
No New Infrastructure
Cyfin is agentless. Direct syslog from Cisco Firepower or ASA to Cyfin. No endpoint agents. No additional hardware. No changes to your network topology. Works with the infrastructure your organization already has in place.
Defensible Business Records
Reports are built on the infrastructure log data your Cisco firewall already generates: a consistent, reproducible basis for workplace investigations. Trusted by government agencies, educational institutions, and regulated industry organizations that need accurate, audit-ready records.
30+ Years of Proven Accuracy
Wavecrest Computing has been solving this specific problem since 1996. The noise-filtering and session reconstruction algorithms have been refined across decades of real-world firewall log data from organizations like yours.
Built for Cisco Firepower and ASA Environments
Cyfin extends your existing Cisco investment to deliver the HR and management reporting layer that Cisco itself does not provide. The integration is direct, requires no changes to your network, and works with both major Cisco product lines.
- Firepower and ASA support: Cyfin works with both Cisco Firepower and ASA deployments. Log data is sent directly to Cyfin's built-in syslog server. No third-party log server required.
- No infrastructure changes: Cyfin is agentless. It connects to your existing Cisco environment with no endpoint agents, no topology changes, and no new hardware. Works with the infrastructure your organization already has in place.
- Investigation-ready reports: Reports are structured to support HR investigations and compliance reviews. Noise-filtered, session-reconstructed output that reflects what a person actually did, giving government, education, and regulated industry environments accurate, audit-ready records.
- Active Directory mapping: Reports show employee names and departments, not IP addresses. HR sees people, not network identifiers, which is essential for any investigation or disciplinary action.
We just completed a rigorous evaluation of Wavecrest Computing's web-access reporting product Cyfin. We found that Cyfin produces comprehensive information that can help managers quickly correct inappropriate or ineffective surfing.
Consistent, Reproducible Records You Can Rely On
The infrastructure log data your Cisco firewall already generates is a well-established basis for reviewing employee activity on company-owned networks. Cyfin reads that data agentlessly, filters out non-human background traffic, and reconstructs it into readable sessions, so each report reflects what a person actually did. The result is consistent and reproducible: run the same report again and you get the same picture. Government agencies, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions rely on records like these for disciplinary and compliance reviews where trustworthy, well-documented records matter.
Cyfin is also less invasive by design. It uses no screen capture, no keystroke logging, and no audio or video recording, and it collects less sensitive data than agent-based tools. Instead of hours of recordings per employee per day that no HR team can realistically review, you get readable sessions built from logs your firewall already keeps. The result is a dependable, audit-ready business record for an HR action or compliance review, without added operational burden on IT or HR.
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