FortiGate Web Activity Reports That Run Themselves
Cyfin connects directly to your FortiGate syslog and turns raw log data into noise-free, human-only web activity reports. IT configures it once. After that, HR runs investigations independently and managers receive scheduled reports automatically — no IT involvement required.
Your FortiGate Logs Are Not HR Reports
Your FortiGate 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 mid-market IT teams, the problem is compounded by bandwidth. When HR needs a web use investigation, that request lands on an IT team already managing everything else. Pulling and interpreting log data manually takes hours IT doesn't have — and the report still requires explanation before HR can act on it. IT becomes a reporting intermediary for a function HR should own.
Cyfin reads your FortiGate log data continuously, filters out all non-human background traffic, and reconstructs individual browsing sessions from hundreds of raw connection records. The setup takes less than a day. After that, HR runs its own investigation reports through a self-service portal and managers receive scheduled activity summaries automatically — without involving IT at all.
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 FortiGate to Cyfin. No endpoint agents. No additional hardware. No changes to your network topology. Works with the infrastructure your organization already has in place.
Scheduled Reports to Managers
Cyfin delivers automated activity reports to managers and HR on a schedule they define — daily, weekly, or monthly. No manual requests, no IT involvement. The right information reaches the right people automatically.
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 FortiGate Environments
Cyfin extends your existing FortiGate investment to deliver the HR and management reporting layer that FortiGate itself does not provide. The integration is straightforward, requires no changes to your network, and is up and running in less than a day.
- Direct syslog integration — FortiGate sends log data directly to Cyfin's built-in syslog server. Works with FortiOS across all FortiGate appliance and VM series. No third-party log server required.
- No network changes — Cyfin connects to your existing FortiGate infrastructure. No endpoint agents. No topology changes. No new hardware. Works with what you already have.
- Fast time to value — Most organizations are running reports the same day Cyfin is deployed. No lengthy implementation, no professional services engagement, no ongoing IT maintenance.
- Active Directory mapping — Reports show employee names and departments, not IP addresses. HR sees people, not network identifiers — essential for any investigation or policy conversation.
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 FortiGate 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 is widely recognized as appropriate for workplace investigations. Government agencies, 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.
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