Reporting functionality aggregates information from individual security features and records data that
can be used to monitor your web traffic patterns and security risks. You can run reports in real-time to
view an interactive display of system activity over a specific period of time, or you can schedule reports
and run them at regular intervals.

The Web Security appliance not only generates high-level reports, allowing you to understand what is
happening on the network, but it also allows you to drill down and see traffic details for a particular
domain, user, or category.

Reporting functionality also allows you to export raw data to a file. For more information see,

Printing

and Exporting Reports from Report Pages, page 23-7

Working with Usernames in Reports

When you enable authentication, reports list users by their usernames when they authenticate with the
Web Proxy. By default, usernames are written as they appear in the authentication server, such as jsmith.
However, you can choose to make usernames unrecognizable in all reports.

Note

Administrators always see usernames in reports.

To make usernames unrecognizable in reports: