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What is FireMon?
FireMon is a real-time security policy management solution built for today’s complex multi-vendor, enterprise environments.
Supporting the latest firewall and policy enforcement technologies spanning on-premises networks to the cloud, FireMon delivers visibility and control across the entire IT landscape to...
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What is FireMon?
FireMon is a real-time security policy management solution built for today’s complex multi-vendor, enterprise environments.
Supporting the latest firewall and policy enforcement technologies spanning on-premises networks to the cloud, FireMon delivers visibility and control across the entire IT landscape to automate policy changes, meet compliance standards, to minimize policy-related risk.
Since creating their policy management solution in 2004, FireMon states they've helped more than 1,700 enterprises in nearly 70 countries secure their networks.
FireMon provides solutions that extend and integrate policy management with today’s latest technologies including SD-WAN, SASE, XDR, and SOAR.
The vendor states FireMon customers experience up to 90% improvements in network security policy efficiency while eliminating common misconfigurations which lead to breaches and compliance violations.
FireMon Features
- Supported: KPI Dashboards: See the network at a glance with analysis, trending and key performance indicator widgets on a customizable dashboard.
- Supported: Traffic Flow Analysis: Monitor network traffic behavior – down to the application level – to isolate overly permissive configurations.
- Supported: Access Path Analysis: Trace every available access path across the network and visualize relationships between network devices to identify risk access points.
- Supported: Network Mapping: Visualize and interact with highly complex network security environments or segmentations.
- Supported: Change Detection & Reporting: Isolate, document and alert on every ongoing change implemented throughout an existing firewall policies.
- Supported: Assessments & Controls: Define and employ unique security controls for customized, repeatable analysis and reporting on firewall policies.
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FireMon Integrations
- Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
- Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering
- Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series
- VMware NSX
- VMware ESXi
- Check Point Quantum Security Gateway Next Generation Firewall
- Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management
- AhnLab TrusGuard
- Check Point FireWall-1 / SmartCenter / VPN-1 Edge including VSX
- Cisco ASA / PIX / FWSM / ASA Context
- Dell SonicWall
- F5 AFM
- Fortinet Fortigate / VDOM
- Huawei USG / Eduemon
- Hillstone SG-6000 series
- IBM Proventia MFS
- Juniper Netscreen / SRX / ScreenOS / VSYS
- Secui NXG / MF2
- Stonesoft Management Center and detected firewalls
- Topsec Firewall
- WeGuardia FW
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FireMon Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Web based browser UI |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | All countries except North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba |
Supported Languages | English |
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FireMon Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 8% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 15% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 77% |
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Firemon a multiple brand integrator
- Increase efficiency in compliance reporting
- Gain visibility in enviroments with multiple brands
FireMon Security Manager that will help you.
- A good reporting tool to look into inactive rules.
Firemon! The time saver!
- Easier to delete inactive firewall rules
- Increased efficiency in compliance reporting
FireMon Firewall Analyzer Review
- Reduced overall complexity of our internal firewall
- Improved our GDPR and NIST compliance rating requirement
- Overall SOC monitoring has improved
Cost effective and operationaly acceptable for basic operations
- We are using this as a migration our our legacy policy manager solution.
- The support with our in house ticketing solution and approval process has made it easier.
- The admins have to do many sessions with support to resolve the issues. Most break cannot be fixed by users themselves.
FireMon: Comprehensive and Great Addition to your Security Arsenal
- saves time and resources in compliance reporting
Solid and reliable
- insight into unused firewall rules for clean up
- insight into traffic to help solve networking issues
- reports for compliance
Solid product, great intel of your threat landscape
- Verified firewall changes when phasing out unused/little used firewall rules.
- Helped ensure no 'leaks' of traffic through same firewalls.
FM for Multi-vendor Environment
- Firewall intake process
- Secure firewall policy creation
- Simplified Audits
- Simplified work intake
- Provide end users a clear SLA and status using the UI
FireMon benefits any organization without configuration management right out of the box
- Reduced complexity from fewer unneeded or inactive firewall rules
- Increased efficiency in compliance reporting
- Increased security through reporting of things that would be hard to put together with the human eye in large networks
- An amazing leap forward in rule documentation and reports to help make sure that rules that are created in the organization are done correctly. You could identify possible inside threat rules being deployed within minutes. My focus is on accidental exposure so I check the rules daily that are "high risk".
- Reduced complexity
- Reduction in inactive firewall rules
- Quicker times to restoration during outages knowing what changed
Firemon Catches them All!
- Easy of use
- ROI
- Reporting
- Reducing complexity is a huge ROI
- Ability for new team members to quickly understand the environment
- Backups and restore have saved us on multiple occasions
Review for FireMon
- Some BUs are using it to help tighten firewall rules
- Mainly used for compliance
- FireMon has helped us point out issues with our older firewalls with regards to updates.
- It has helped streamline management of our firewalls by using one console to manage both our Cisco and Palo Alto devices.
Secure with Firemon
- Increased the ability to review the risky rules and make necessary changes
- Rule documentation gave us a chance to have the metadata within FireMon for compliance purposes.
Firemon is great tool but expensive
- ROI has to deal with Third Party Audits
- Has saved us tons of man hours of doing discoovery work
Firewall change reports help with audits and compliance.
- When working correctly, it works well for audit purposes providing needed information for our auditors and compliance.
FireMon: Great Product
- Saves time
- Nice documentation
Not the best in a CheckPoint environment
- Reduced number of unused rules.
The honest FireMon review
- Firewall cleanup is easy.
- The review and audit process are now easier than ever.
- Collaboration between teams managing the firewalls.
FireMon Review
- Reduced audit compliance support time by 90%
- Reduced firewall maintenance time by 50%
- Reduce upper-management report time by 90%
A Review of FireMon
- FireMon's Compliance Reporting provided an immediate and tangible benefit
- FireMon helps identify egregious or erroneous rules quickly across multiple platforms
- FireMon took our audit process from an Excel spreadsheet into a far more advanced process with readily available context for reviewers
FireMon, but without bugs
- Positive - ability to add rule owners has been a big deal
- Clean-Up of unused firewall rules has been helpful
- Global architecture searching - i.e. I'm looking for a single server and all of its touchpoints in our environment. Where do I search? FireMon, of course.