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Alert Report

Alert Report keeps track of all daily alerts and lets you download daily alert reports. At the end of each month, all daily alert reports will be consolidated into one monthly report for download. All alert details in the alert reports are recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The alert logs recorded in the reports are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and the time zone used in the FortiCWP Alert page is the same as where you reside. Make sure to perform time conversion before finding the same alert logs on FortiCWP Alert page.

For example, 9/16/2020 00:00 to 9/16/2020 23:59 UTC would be equivalent to 9/15/2020 17:00 to 9/16/2020 16:59 PST.

Activate Alert Report

Enable any one of the Compliance policies below to activate the function to export alert reports:

  • NIST800/53 - Track all security alerts
  • NIST800/171 - Track all security alerts
  • ISO27001 - Track all security alerts

Note: only one of the policies above is needed to be enabled to activate Alert Report.

Activate Alert Report through NIST SP 800-53 rev4

  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Policy > Compliance, and click NIST SP 800-53 rev4 tab.
  2. Locate the policy, NIST800/53 - Track all security alerts, and click the right arrow sign > next to the policy to expand it.
  3. Click on the Enabled toggle switch button to enable the policy.
  4. Click Save Changes to save the configuration.

Activate Alert Report through NIST SP 800/171

  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Policy > Compliance, and click NIST SP 800/171 tab.
  2. Locate the policy, NIST800/171 - Track all security alerts, and click the right arrow sign > next to the policy to expand it.
  3. Click on the Enabled toggle switch button to enable the policy.
  4. Click Save Changes to save the configuration.

Activate Alert Report through ISO 27001

  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Policy > Compliance, and click ISO27001 tab.
  2. Locate the policy, ISO27001 - Track all security alerts, and click the right arrow sign > next to the policy to expand it.
  3. Click on the Enabled toggle switch button to enable the policy.
  4. Click Save Changes to save the configuration.

Export Daily/Monthly Report

Daily alert report is compiled into a CSV file and made available for export. At the end of each month, all daily reports of the that month are combined and packaged into a ZIP file and made available for download.

An alternative option of exporting daily reports is to consolidate up-to-date daily reports of the current month into one ZIP file.

Follow the steps below to export reports.
  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Report > Alert.
  2. In the Current Month tab, download alert report following one of the option below:
  3. Option 1 - Select any of the daily report and click download button to download the daily report. All daily reports are ended in "UTC".

    Option 2 - Click Package Up-To-Date for Download button to combine all up to date daily reports of the current month into one zip file. The combined ZIP file will be made available for download with .zip extension.

  4. Click the History tab to export the past monthly alert reports. Click the year drop down menu to select the year, and all the monthly alert reports available of that year will be available for export.

Alert Report

Alert Report keeps track of all daily alerts and lets you download daily alert reports. At the end of each month, all daily alert reports will be consolidated into one monthly report for download. All alert details in the alert reports are recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The alert logs recorded in the reports are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and the time zone used in the FortiCWP Alert page is the same as where you reside. Make sure to perform time conversion before finding the same alert logs on FortiCWP Alert page.

For example, 9/16/2020 00:00 to 9/16/2020 23:59 UTC would be equivalent to 9/15/2020 17:00 to 9/16/2020 16:59 PST.

Activate Alert Report

Enable any one of the Compliance policies below to activate the function to export alert reports:

  • NIST800/53 - Track all security alerts
  • NIST800/171 - Track all security alerts
  • ISO27001 - Track all security alerts

Note: only one of the policies above is needed to be enabled to activate Alert Report.

Activate Alert Report through NIST SP 800-53 rev4

  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Policy > Compliance, and click NIST SP 800-53 rev4 tab.
  2. Locate the policy, NIST800/53 - Track all security alerts, and click the right arrow sign > next to the policy to expand it.
  3. Click on the Enabled toggle switch button to enable the policy.
  4. Click Save Changes to save the configuration.

Activate Alert Report through NIST SP 800/171

  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Policy > Compliance, and click NIST SP 800/171 tab.
  2. Locate the policy, NIST800/171 - Track all security alerts, and click the right arrow sign > next to the policy to expand it.
  3. Click on the Enabled toggle switch button to enable the policy.
  4. Click Save Changes to save the configuration.

Activate Alert Report through ISO 27001

  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Policy > Compliance, and click ISO27001 tab.
  2. Locate the policy, ISO27001 - Track all security alerts, and click the right arrow sign > next to the policy to expand it.
  3. Click on the Enabled toggle switch button to enable the policy.
  4. Click Save Changes to save the configuration.

Export Daily/Monthly Report

Daily alert report is compiled into a CSV file and made available for export. At the end of each month, all daily reports of the that month are combined and packaged into a ZIP file and made available for download.

An alternative option of exporting daily reports is to consolidate up-to-date daily reports of the current month into one ZIP file.

Follow the steps below to export reports.
  1. From FortiCWP navigation menu, go to Report > Alert.
  2. In the Current Month tab, download alert report following one of the option below:
  3. Option 1 - Select any of the daily report and click download button to download the daily report. All daily reports are ended in "UTC".

    Option 2 - Click Package Up-To-Date for Download button to combine all up to date daily reports of the current month into one zip file. The combined ZIP file will be made available for download with .zip extension.

  4. Click the History tab to export the past monthly alert reports. Click the year drop down menu to select the year, and all the monthly alert reports available of that year will be available for export.