Firewall Analyzer - Firewall compliance management software

Firewall Analyzer's integrated compliance management function automates your firewall compliance audits with its out-of-the-box firewall security standards reports on the following regulatory mandates

• PCI-DSS
• ISO 27001
• NIST
• SANS
• NERC-CIP
• SOX
• GDPR
• GLBA
• HIPAA

Firewall Analyzer's Compliance Management System

• Firewall Analyzer, a firewall auditing software, continuously monitors network firewall rule changes, acts as a firewall compliance tool and generates reports instantly on any rule misconfiguration (Audit Firewall Rules) thus keeping your network security intact.
• It audits firewall rules (Firewall Rule Audit), objects, interfaces, ACLs, address translations and other configurations that control network traffic to flag the status of each compliance requirement.
• It automatically schedules 'Security Audit Reports' thus increasing operational efficiency by automating the periodical Compliance Auditing tasks
• It allows you to define your own false positive filtering criteria for firewall compliance audit reports that help you to meet internal security policy and thus act as a firewall compliance management tool.
• It includes easy to interpret Compliance Dashboard that provides your network's compliance status (Firewall Security Standards) at a glance. It acts a firewall security standards compliance tool and also allows you to customize the compliance widgets to suit your requirements
• It keeps your firewall security standards compliance in check, by performing regular security audits for firewall rule compliance and firewall policy compliance.

Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards (PCI- DSS) Compliance Reports

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard guidelines were developed to enhance the cardholder data security in organizations that process or transmit customer credit card data. The requirements of this compliance mandate includes

• Installing and maintaining a secure network
• Protect the cardholders data and encrypt the transmission of the cardholder data across open and public networks
• Implement Strong Access Control measures
• Periodically monitor and test security systems and processes
• Maintain an information security policy

Firewall Analyzer helps you to meet PCI compliance requirements by installing and maintaining firewall configurations that allow you to build a secure network. It also provides you out-of-the-box reports and real-time alerts that ensures the security of cardholder data. The solution also helps you to review and audit the firewall configurations periodically and archives the firewall logs for conducting audit trails at an ease.

PCI-DSS compliance

ISO 27001:2013 Compliance Reports

ISO 27001:2013 is a comprehensive internationally recognized information security standard that ensures the protection of organization's business sensitive information.It provides information security control measures for organizations that helps protecting their information assets against threats to confidentiality, integrity and availability.

Firewall Analyzer helps in complying to ISO 27001:2013 standard by meeting its requirements that are concerned with the implementation and maintenance of firewall device.With its off-the-shelf comprehensive reports on Firewall Access control, Configuration and Policy changes & Network Traffic it ensures the protection of your business sensitive information

SANS Firewall Security Policy Guidelines

SANS Institute provides a general checklist of security considerations that are to be used while auditing a firewall. These widely accepted checklist for firewall auditing helps preventing unauthorized traffic to your secure network and avoids unintentional data loss or access to confidential data by outsiders.

Firewall Analyzer helps you to compare your organization's firewall configuration status with that of the SANS checklist and ensures security round the clock. The solution also automates your periodical firewall audits thus improving your operational efficiency.

NIST Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policies

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a set of guidelines on information security controls for Federal Agencies and other organizations that helps protecting their network from security breaches.

Firewall Analyzer helps meeting NIST guideline requirements with its instant reports on inbound and outbound network traffic monitoring, firewall policy/configuration reviewing, Remote Firewall Management Access and more

NERC CIP Compliance Reports

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has designed its Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards to secure assets and business sensitive information from external threat.

With its comprehensive report templates and Alert mechanisms, Firewall Analyzer helps meeting NERC CIP's requirements on

• Security Management Controls
• Systems Security Management
• Recovery Plans for Critical Cyber Assets

SOX Compliance Report

The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) protects shareholders and the general public from fraudulent practices in enterprises and accounting errors. It aims to improve the accuracy of corporate disclosures. This policy was incorporated to keep a check on how enterprises manage their internal controls. In a network security environment, this translates to a policy where all the data stored should be enabled with access controls, proper and error-free installations of backup procedures, scrutiny of configuration changes and data security.

Refer Compliance tab help page to get help on this topic.

Refer Firewall security audit and configuration analysis page for more details about firewall security audit and configuration analysis report.

To know more about security standards compliance, refer Firewall Security Standards page.

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