The Devices page in the Web Content Discovery report provides organizations with a comprehensive look at the web content activity associated with specific devices on their networks. The page displays details about the traffic, such as the device name, user, total number of categories, and total number of requests. Organizations can also view and sort data to determine what web content is associated with a device. This information can then be used to identify potential threats and take the necessary steps to protect the network from potential attacks. The Devices page can also be used to identify user activities and ensure that only authorized users are accessing the web content.
The Devices page displays details about the traffic associated with specific devices observed on your network. To view device details, navigate to Reports > Web Content Discovery > Devices. In the table on the Devices page, you can view and sort data to determine what web content is associated with a device. The page displays the following: .
Image: Web Content Discovery Devices page
Search: Enter the value that you want to search in the Search text box. The Cloud Services Portal displays the list of records that match the keyword in the text box.
Refresh and Show:
- Refresh: Click to refresh the data displayed on the page.
- Show: Click Show to select a time period for the displayed data records:
- 1 hour
- 24 hours
- 48 hours
- 7 days
- 1 month
- Custom (limited to 30 days): When Custom is selected, the time/date object indicates the last 30 calendar days. Click the time/date object to open the calendar object. On the calendar object, you can select the start and end dates and times for custom filtering.
Export Records: Click to export a CSV-formatted file that contains all Application Summary records.
Background tasks and recent search information can be viewed by doing the following:
Background Tasks: Click to open the side panel displaying a list of all running background tasks.
Searches: Click to perform a global search. The Cloud Services Portal displays the list of records that match the keyword in the text box. The search panel includes information on recent searches including tool information, console messages, and information on recent domain searches.
Filtering: Click (see call-out ) to open the record filtering panel. In the opened panel, Click to add filters and filter data by the available filtering parameters.
Web Content Discovery Content Devices Table: The Web Content Discovery Content Devices table displays a list of all devices seen on your network. The following information can be viewed in the records table:
- DEVICE NAME: The name of a device associated with a threat category on your network.
- USER: The name of a user associated with a device on your network.
- TOTAL CATEGORIES: The number of categories associated with each detected device observed on your network. Click the embedded link in the Total Categories column to view the Category page, which displays a list of categories and sub-categories associated with the device.
- REQUESTS: The number of requests made by a device observed on your network.
You can also do the following on this page:
View Background Tasks
Click to view all background tasks currently being undertaken.
Search Tool
Click to search through all available device records.
Refresh Page
Click to refresh the page.
Time and Date Filtering
Click Show, Click the triple bar icon ☰ on the Web Content Devices table header to select what information you want to display. You can view all information by selecting all options or select only those options you wish to display. You can use the up/down arrow associated with each column to reorder information in the columns. See call-out for information on what information each column item provides.
Click to open and close the filtering panel. See call-out for information on conducting a filter search.
Click to open and close the details panel located to the right of the page and below the top Action bar, to allow filtering of records by both time and date. The time period displayed can be modified from 1 hour to 1 month. Optionally, to choose a custom time period, select Custom and choose From and To values. You can select one of the following time frames from the Show drop-down menu:
- 1 hour (default)
- 24 hours
- 48 hours
- 7 days
- 1 month
- Custom (limited to 30 days of data): When Custom is selected, the time/date object indicates the last 30 calendar days. Click the time/date object to open the calendar object. On the calendar object, you can select the start and end dates and times for custom filtering.
Export Records
Click to export a csv-formatted file containing all device records.
Device Search
To locate a specific device name, type or paste text into the search box. To cancel a search, click inside the search box.
Filter Tool
Click to open the filter dialogue box. In the filter dialogue box, click to create a filter. Supported filter types include Device Name.
Sorting Device Records
In the Devices data table, click a header title to sort through the devices’ records by column label.records table. Select a record to view its details in the details panel. See call-out for information about the details panel.
Details Panel: In the details panel you can view the information for a selected record. To view a record's details, select the row in the table associated with the record to be viewed.
For additional information, see the following: