Solutions for Managing Multiple Firewalls
This firewall management article reviews five different firewall operations management products.
Running multiple firewalls in an enterprise environment can make it difficult to catch configuration problems, conflicting rules, and to meet auditing and compliance mandates. This Computer World review takes a look at five firewall operations management products that can assist your organization with managing its firewalls.
"In this test, we look at five firewall operations management products: AlgoSec's Firewall Analyzer, RedSeal's Network Advisor and Vulnerability Advisor, Secure Passage's FireMon, Skybox's View Assure and View Secure and Tufin's SecureTrack.
"We found that these products perform similar core functions: they retrieve configuration files of firewalls (and other network devices), store the data and analyze it. They can look at change history, analyze existing rules, perform rules-based queries, re-order rules, and send out alerts, if policies are violated. They can also create automated compliance audit analysis and reports.In addition, they can do modeling and wargame analysis based on a snapshot-in-time version of the real network. Plus, Algosec, RedSeal and Skybox can provide network diagrams and topology views of the underlying networks."
