SonicWall Web Activity Reports HR Can Run Without IT
Cyfin connects directly to your SonicWall syslog and transforms raw log data into noise-free, human-only web activity reports. HR investigates independently through a self-service portal. IT sets it up once and never has to be a reporting intermediary again.
Your SonicWall Logs Are Not HR Reports
Your SonicWall 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.
In organizations running lean IT teams — common across healthcare, financial services, and SMB environments — the problem is acute. Every request for a web use report falls on the same small team managing the entire network. IT becomes a bottleneck between HR and the information HR needs to do its job. Investigations stall. Policy enforcement is inconsistent. Compliance documentation that should be routine becomes a project.
Cyfin reads your SonicWall log data continuously, filters out all non-human background traffic, and reconstructs individual browsing sessions from hundreds of raw connection records. HR gets a self-service investigation portal they can operate without any technical knowledge. IT configures Cyfin once and is done — no recurring involvement, no report requests, no manual data extraction.
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 SonicWall to Cyfin. No endpoint agents. No additional hardware. No changes to your network topology. Works with the infrastructure your organization already has in place.
HIPAA & Compliance Ready
Cyfin produces the audit-ready web activity documentation that healthcare and financial services organizations require. Reports are reproducible, accurately attributed to named employees, and structured for compliance submissions.
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 SonicWall Environments
Cyfin extends your existing SonicWall investment to deliver the HR and management reporting layer that SonicWall itself does not provide. The integration is direct, requires no changes to your network, and is up and running the same day.
- Direct syslog integration — SonicWall sends log data directly to Cyfin's built-in syslog server. Works across SonicWall TZ, NSa, and NSsp series. No third-party log server required.
- No network changes — Cyfin connects to your existing SonicWall infrastructure. No endpoint agents. No topology changes. No new hardware. Works with what your organization already has in place.
- HR self-service from day one — Once configured, HR accesses a secure reporting portal independently. No IT involvement needed to run investigations, pull compliance reports, or review activity summaries.
- Active Directory mapping — Reports show employee names and departments, not IP addresses. HR sees people, not network identifiers — essential for investigations and compliance documentation in healthcare and financial environments.
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 SonicWall 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. Healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and other regulated businesses 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 a lean IT team.
See What Your SonicWall 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 SonicWall log data before involving your team.