Email Security Appliance (ESA)

Email Security Appliance (ESA): Protects email systems from spam, phishing, malware, and data loss with advanced threat filtering.

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

Note that the device can be configured to send plain-text syslog or CEF-formatted logs. AxoRouter can automatically parse all flavors.

Labels

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

label value
vendor meta.vendor
product meta.product
service meta.service.name

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, index, and source settings:

sourcetype index source
cisco:esa:http email esa:http
cisco:esa:textmail email esa:textmail
cisco:esa:amp email esa:amp
cisco:esa:antispam email esa:antispam
cisco:esa:system_logs email esa:system_logs
cisco:esa:system_logs email esa:euq_logs
cisco:esa:system_logs email esa:service_logs
cisco:esa:system_logs email esa:reportd_logs
cisco:esa:system_logs email esa:sntpd_logs
cisco:esa:system_logs email esa:smartlicense
cisco:esa:error_logs email esa:error_logs
cisco:esa:error_logs email esa:updater_logs
cisco:esa:content_scanner email esa:content_scanner
cisco:esa:authentication email esa:authentication
cisco:esa:http email esa:http
cisco:esa:textmail email esa:textmail
cisco:esa:amp email esa:amp
cisco:esa email program: <variable>
cisco:esa:cef email esa:consolidated

Tested with: Splunk Add-on for Cisco ESA

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: CISCO_EMAIL_SECURITY.