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Edge Secure Web Gateway (Edge SWG)

Edge Secure Web Gateway (Edge SWG): Secures web traffic through policy enforcement, SSL inspection, and real-time threat protection.

To onboard such a source to Axoflow, complete the generic appliance onboarding steps.

Labels

Axoflow automatically adds the following labels to data collected from this source:

Analytics label Message field value
vendor meta.vendor broadcom
product meta.product edge-swg
service meta.service.name bluecoat, ProxySG

You can use the labels as:

You can use the message fields

  • in Flow Processing steps, for example, in the Query field of Select Messages steps,
  • in AQL expressions in the search bars.

Sending data to Splunk

When sending the data collected from this source to Splunk, Axoflow uses the following sourcetype and index settings:

sourcetype index
bluecoat:proxysg:access:syslog netops
bluecoat:proxysg:access:kv netproxy

If the Axoflow classification doesn’t set the source field for the message automatically, and you haven’t set it in a flow processing step manually (by setting the meta.destination.splunk.source field), AxoRouter automatically sets the source to the name of the AxoRouter connector that received the message (for example, axorouter-syslog-tcp-514).

Sending data to Google SecOps

When sending the data collected from this source to a dynamic Google SecOps destination, Axoflow sets the following log type: BROADCOM_EDGE_SWG.

Sending data to Microsoft Sentinel

When sending the data collected from this source to a Microsoft Sentinel destination, Axoflow normalizes the data and sends it to the following table: Syslog.

Earlier name/vendor

  • Blue Coat Proxy
  • Blue Coat ProxySG
  • Symantec ProxySG
  • Symantec Edge Secure Web Gateway
  • Symantec Edge SWG