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 — 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 must produce evidence that holds up to legal and administrative scrutiny. 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 meet the evidentiary standard required. 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, defensible in investigations, 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
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 in Proceedings
Reports are built on infrastructure log data — a legally accepted standard for workplace investigations. Trusted by government agencies, educational institutions, and regulated industry organizations where evidentiary standards are high.
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 connects to your existing Cisco environment. No endpoint agents. No topology changes. No new hardware. Works with the infrastructure your organization already has in place.
- Investigation-ready reports — Reports are structured to support HR investigations and administrative proceedings. Noise-filtered, session-reconstructed output that meets the evidentiary standard for government, education, and regulated industry environments.
- Active Directory mapping — Reports show employee names and departments, not IP addresses. HR sees people, not network identifiers — 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.
Reports That Hold Up When It Matters
Infrastructure logs — including firewall logs from Cisco and other major vendors — are a well-established and legally accepted basis for monitoring employee activity on company-owned networks. This approach has been upheld in employment proceedings and administrative actions, and is widely recognized as appropriate for workplace investigations. Government agencies, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions rely on this standard for disciplinary and compliance actions where the evidentiary bar is high.
Screen capture and keystroke logging tools carry substantially higher legal risk. They are subject to privacy violation claims, carry complex disclosure requirements, and are far more vulnerable to challenge when evidence is contested. They also produce unmanageable data volumes — hours of recordings per employee per day that no HR team can realistically review. Cyfin's approach — infrastructure logs, automatically noise-filtered, reconstructed into readable sessions — gives you defensible evidence without operational burden on IT or HR.
See What Your Cisco Firepower Users Are Actually Doing
Start with a free trial — no credit card, no IT commitment beyond the initial syslog connection. Or request a demo to see Cyfin reporting on Cisco Firepower log data before involving your team.