Security administrators are often so busy with multiple change requests that they neither have the time nor the resources to investigate all the implications of a change and implement changes manually
Even a single misplaced rule can trigger a massive security loophole that could enable malicious traffic to sneak in or block legitimate traffic and disrupt normal business. To get the best out of your firewall, it's essential to have complete visibility and control over your firewall policies.
Check out howSecurity administrators can add, modify, or delete a rule, and directly push these changes to multiple firewall devices using Firewall Analyzer. Simplify firewall policy management by automating firewall rule administration.
With Firewall Analyzer you can perform in-depth impact analysis for a proposed new rule to help you determine if the new rule is going to negatively impact the existing rule set. You can identify threats, understand risks, remove anomalies, and optimize the proposed new rule.
Manually documenting all firewall rules and reviewing them on a regular basis is a time-consuming task. To solve this issue, Firewall Analyzer fetches the entire set of rules written in the firewall and provides a detailed report. Along with this, it also provides a list of outdated and unused rules.
Firewall Analyzer evaluates various rule interactions and anomalies to provide suggestions on rule position. By correlating the number of rule hits with rule complexity and anomalies, it can estimate the performance improvement for a suggested change.
Firewall Analyzer helps identify rule anomalies, which tend to have a negative impact on firewall performance. Removing these helps optimize the efficiency of firewall rules.
Refer Firewall Rule Reorder Suggestions page to know more about firewall rule anomaly removal using rule reorder.
The heart of any firewall's performance is its rules and policies. If not managed properly, these can leave your network vulnerable to attacks. In this e-book, we bring you the top 10 firewall best practices that can help you optimize your rule/policy performance.