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Syslog (CEF / LEEF)

Leak events are sent to your SIEM collector in CEF or LEEF format over an encrypted syslog connection.

How it works

This is the widest-reaching SIEM route. Nearly every enterprise SIEM — QRadar, ArcSight, LogRhythm, Securonix, Exabeam and Rapid7 among them — accepts one of these two formats, so no product-specific integration is needed.

The connection runs over TLS (6514) or TCP. Framing is octet-counting: the byte count precedes every message, so the collector knows exactly where a message ends.

Syslog returns no acknowledgement. A delivery counts as successful once the connection is made and the write completes; that does not mean the SIEM indexed the event.

Severity mapping

Dark RadarCEF / LEEFSyslog
Critical102
High83
Medium54
Low35
Info16

Limits

UDP is not accepted: it produces no delivery proof.
Internal network and cloud metadata addresses are refused.
In CEF the field separators are escaped inside values, so the SIEM cannot read the fields wrongly.

Setup

The setup steps are in the panel, on the integration’s own screen. What to do on the provider side and which value goes where is written there.

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