Cato provides predefined report templates that summarize a snapshot of the data on the Best Practices page. This lets you generate reports that include the:
- Posture (Best Practices) Report: Evaluates the configurations and settings in your account and shows how they comply with Cato’s recommendations for optimal performance and security. For example, the report shows whether critical security services are enabled, and can identify security rules that are too permissive. The assessment also focuses on detailed settings, such as whether specific risky categories and services are blocked.
- Posture Compliance Report: Maps compliance controls from leading compliance frameworks, including GDPR, ISO 27001:2022, and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, to the relevant Cato posture checks. This helps you understand compliance coverage, identify gaps, and prioritize remediation based on the impact and status of each check.
Create the template for the recurring or one-time report with data from the status of the Best Practices page at the time the report is generated.
To review the checks for your account at a specific point in time, you can generate a Best Practices report from a date in the past. This capability helps you compare historical results with the current report to track improvements and demonstrate progress over time.
For more about working with reports, see Cato Reports.
Create a new recurring report by defining the Filters for the items included in the report, as well as the Schedule which defines how often the report is generated - daily, weekly, or monthly. Generated reports are stored in the Cato Cloud, and they can be automatically emailed or downloaded. The Schedule also defines the time range that is covered by each report.
You can select the Mailing List of email addresses for the recipients, which can include Cato Management Application admins and external users.
For more information about Mailing Lists, see Working with Mailing Lists.
To create a recurring report:
- From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
- From the Catalog tab, select the template you want to use to generate the report.
- Click Generate > Create Schedule.
- Enter a Report Name.
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(Optional) In Filters, add a filter to the report for it to only include specific data.
To generate a report for a specific compliance framework, add a filter this filter:
- Field: Compliance
- Operator: is
- Value: Your chosen compliance framework
- Define when the report will be generated and sent:
- Select the Frequency that the report is automatically sent: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
- For Weekly and Monthly Scheduled reports, in Every select the day that the report is sent.
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In Send to Mailing List, select the Mailing List that receives the report.
You can click New to create a new mailing list.
- Click Save Schedule. The report is added to the Saved Reports tab.
Recurring reports are automatically generated based on their schedule settings. For example, a weekly report configured for Monday, is generated every Monday. You can also choose to manually generate a recurring report on demand, in which case the generated report uses the defined time range based on the current day. If an admin manually generates a weekly report on a Tuesday, the time range for the report is the previous 7 days starting from that Tuesday, regardless of the starting day of the recurring report. For more information about the time range of recurring reports, see Cato Reports.
You can create a one-time report based on the Best Practices template. You define the Filters for the items included in the report.
To create a One-Time report:
- From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
- From the Catalog tab, select the template you want to use to generate the report.
- Select Generate > Generate Now.
- Enter a Report Name.
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(Optional) In Filters, add a filter to the report for it to only include specific data.
To generate a report for a specific compliance framework, add a filter this filter:
- Field: Compliance
- Operator: is
- Value: Your chosen compliance framework
- Choose the date that you want the report to at. To review the reports at a specific point in time, you can generate a report from a date in the past.
- Click Generate, the report is generated and you download it from the Generated PDFs tab.
Download a Recurring or One-Time report as a PDF from the Generated PDFs tab. You can use the Reload button to refresh the Generated PDFs tab and see if the report is Ready to download.
Admins with viewer permissions are allowed to download reports.
These are the sections in the Best Practices report:
- Best Practices Overview: Displays the Cato Score, the percentage of passed and failed checks, and the last time the Best Practices was updated for this report.
- Best Practice Categories: Each category has a table with the Best Practices information for all checks performed on that category. For example, Internet Firewall and Threat Prevention each have their own tables with the full details of their Best Practices checks.
These are the sections in the Posture Compliance Report:
- Best Practices Overview: Displays the Cato Score, the percentage of passed and failed checks, and the last time the Best Practices was updated for this report.
- Compliance Requirement: Each compliance requirement includes a table that lists the posture checks used to satisfy it.
You can create custom report templates based on one of the predefined report templates. This allows you to quickly generate reports designed for your exact needs, while benefiting from the basic composition and design of our predefined templates.
For details, see Generating a Custom Report.
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