The latest in the Rublon Admin Console. Administrators can now export Authentication Logs to a CSV file sent to their emails. Exporting Authentication Logs allows easier analysis of user authentications in the organization.
What Are Authentication Logs?
The Authentication Logs is an essential feature in the Rublon Admin Console that allows administrators to review all authentication attempts users in the organization made to applications integrated with Rublon. Log entries contain crucial information on the user, device, authentication method, and time the attempt took place. Authentication logging is a common requirement for regulatory compliance. It also ensures full transparency of the organization’s authentications. By analyzing authentication logs, administrators can rapidly detect and identify attempts at unauthorized attempts and cut them short by blocking the user and proceeding with an incident response plan.
Benefits of Exporting and Analyzing Authentication Logs
- Analyzing exported authentication logs aids in identifying security incidents, fraudulent activity, and policy violations in the organization.
- Storing and analyzing authentication logs helps you abide by HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other regulations.
- Log analysis can help you expose brute-force and account takeover attack attempts.
- Analyzing logs in an external sheet can be easier and faster for administrators.
- Routine log analysis gives you good visibility into what is happening in your company.
How Exporting Logs Can Help Your Log Management
In the past few years, log management has become a crucial part of each organization’s security. Indeed, routine log analysis can help identify security incidents, fraudulent activity, and policy violations. Logs can help you detect both long-term issues and short-term anomalies in your organization. Storing and analyzing logs can help you comply with security regulations, including but not limited to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
As with all types of computer logs, authentication logs can help you monitor the authentication of your users. You can export monthly reports to pinpoint errors and anomalies in the ways your users sign in to your applications. For example, authentication logs can expose brute-force attack attempts.
In addition, authentication logs contain crucial information on which of your applications were accessed within the past month and from what IP addresses. Nevertheless, analyzing large volumes of logs in the Rublon Admin Console may prove challenging. While the Rublon Admin Console allows for filtering and ordering of authentication logs based on timestamp, authentication method, authentication result, and user, administrators might prefer to perform these operations in an external sheet that they can also modify to their liking.
Exporting authentication logs can help administrators create and manage monthly user authentication reports. With logs in CSV format, you can open authentication logs using tools such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc and easily filter, order and search for important information. Comparing this month’s authentication attempts with earlier monthly reports gives you more control over your organization and ensures good visibility into what is happening in your company.
How to Export Authentication Logs from the Rublon Admin Console?
Exporting authentication logs is simple:
- Click the Email Me Logs button.
- Select the time range and click Send.
- Look up your email for exported logs in a CSV file.
Here are more detailed instructions with screenshots.
Rublon Awaits Your Suggestions
We hope that the ability to export authentication logs will allow your company to improve the management and analysis of the authentication logins of your users, which in turn will lead to the overall higher security of your organization.
We will soon release multiple new features for the Rublon Admin Console. Stay tuned and keep watching our Blog and social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter).
If you have any suggestions regarding further improvement of the Rublon Admin Console, do not hesitate to contact Rublon Support. We are looking forward to your feedback.
