Enterprise firewall management, what firewall management tools are there?

A typical enterprise network security infrastructure consists of traditional firewalls, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), virtual private networks (VPNs), and proxy servers from multiple vendors.Network security management, especially firewall security management, is particularly tricky because each vendor's capabilities and technologies vary widely.However, there are many firewall management solutions on the market.As a security administrator, you need an intelligent firewall management software that can help manage firewall rules, configurations, and logs from different vendors.

Firewall Management Tool

Firewall Analyzer Firewall Analyzer is policy management and configuration monitoring software.The system provides security analysis based on SSH and application program interface (SSH) and application program interface (SSH) and based on command line and application program interface.It also helps security administrators track policy changes, optimize firewall performance, and maintain compliance standards.Let's take a closer look at what this smart firewall management solution has to offer.

Firewall Policy Management

Firewall Analyzer's policy management module helps you:

• Get visibility into the entire ruleset
• Detect and log redundancy, generalization, correlation, shadowing, and grouping anomalies in the firewall
• Learn how to improve performance by changing the order of rules
• Automated firewall rule management
• Determine whether the new rule will adversely affect the existing ruleset
• With these capabilities (firewall management policies), security administrators have full control over their firewall policies, which helps to optimize policies
  

Firewall configuration monitoring

Firewall Analyzer captures configuration changes from firewall devices and generates change management reports to help you find out who made what changes, when, and why.Firewall Analyzer also sends real-time alerts to your phone when changes occur.This report ensures that all configuration and subsequent changes in the firewall are regularly captured and stored in the database.

Firewall Log Analysis

Firewall Analyzer generates log reports and provides security and traffic analysis.With firewall software, you can:

• Identify security attacks, viruses, and other security network anomalies
• Monitor and track your network for insider threats
• Forensics to identify threats
• Look for a virus infection on your network
• Use advanced search capabilities to easily mine security events from raw firewall logs
• Use detailed traffic analysis
• VPN usage and trends report
• Customize firewall reports to your requirements
• Track your proxy usage
  

Firewall Security Compliance Management

Firewall Analyzer generates out-of-the-box compliance reports for the following industry standards:

• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
• ISO 27001:2013
• NIST Special Publication 800-53
• NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standard
• SAN Institutes Firewall Checklist

These reports allow you to track the compliance status of configurations on firewall devices.

Firewall Alarm Management

Firewall Analyzer generates alerts to automatically notify network administrators when set thresholds are exceeded.Any alerts generated are logged in the product interface.These alerts can be sent in real time via email and SMS.Alerts can also trigger scripts to automatically respond to events when an attack is detected.

Distributed Firewall Management

Firewall Analyzer addresses the firewall management needs of large enterprises and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) with its distributed monitoring capabilities.The Enterprise Edition of Firewall Analyzer is a scalable solution to monitor multiple firewalls worldwide from one central location (centralized firewall management).This helps security administrators in large enterprises who need to manage all network security devices from one location.

Multi-vendor support

One of the main advantages of Firewall Analyzer is its ability to handle different firewall vendors.Firewall Analyzer can manage rules and monitor the configuration of the following vendors:

• Cisco
• Palo Alto
• Check Point
• Watchguard

Manage Firewall

Firewall management is the process of effectively managing firewall rules, configurations, logs, and alerts.Therefore, make the most of your existing cybersecurity infrastructure.