A typical enterprise network security infrastructure consist of traditional firewalls, next generation firewalls (NGFWs), virtual private networks (VPNs), and proxy servers from multiple vendors. Network security management and specifically firewall security management is especially tricky as each vendor differs greatly in their capabilities and technology nuances. However, there are numerous firewall management solutions available in the market. As a security administrator, you need an intelligent firewall management software that can help manage your firewall rules, configurations, and logs from different vendors.
Firewall Analyzer is policy management and configuration monitoring software. This firewall management system offers command line interface (CLI) and application program interface (API)-based configuration monitoring and supports Telnet, SSH, and SCP protocol for security and traffic analysis. It also helps security administrators track policy changes, optimize firewall performance, and maintain compliance standards. Let's take a closer look at the capabilities this smart firewall management solution has to offer.
Firewall Analyzer's policy management module helps you:
With these capabilities (Firewall Management Policy), security administrators get complete control over their firewall policies, which helps with optimizing policies.
Firewall Analyzer fetches configuration changes from firewall devices and generates change management reports to help you find who made what changes, when, and why. Firewall Analyzer also sends real-time alerts to your phone when changes happen. This report ensures that all the configurations and subsequent changes made in your firewall are captured periodically and stored in a database.
Firewall Analyzer generates log reports and provides security and traffic analytics. Using this firewall logs analysis software, you can:
Firewall Analyzer generates out-of-the-box compliance reports for the following industry standards:
With these reports, you can track the compliance status of the configurations on your firewall devices.
Firewall Analyzer generates alerts automatically and notifies network administrators when a set threshold is crossed. Any alarm that is generated is recorded in the product UI. These alarms can be sent in real time via email and SMS. Alarms can also trigger scripts to automate your incident response the very moment an attack is detected.
Firewall Analyzer addresses the firewall management needs of both large enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs) or managed firewall services with its distributed monitoring capabilities. Firewall Analyzer’s Enterprise edition is a scalable solution that can monitor multiple firewalls across the globe from a central location (Centralized Firewall Management). This helps security administrators of large enterprises who need to manage all their network security devices from a single location.
One of the main strengths of Firewall Analyzer is its capability to handle different firewall vendors. Firewall Analyzer can manage rules and monitor configurations for the following vendors:
Download Firewall Analyzer for free and start managing your firewall policy, configurations, and logs.
Firewall management is the process of efficiently managing your firewall rules, configuration, logs and alerts. Thereby, bringing the best out of your existing network security infrastructure.
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