FireMon: Igniting Innovation, Guarding Security.
Rating: 8 out of 10
November 07, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Decreased execution time for firewall changes.
- Optimize resources used in security solutions.
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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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FireMon: Igniting Innovation, Guarding Security.
Rating: 8 out of 10
November 7, 2023We currently use the security manager modules to clean and fine-tune our set of policies centrally. We additionally use a policy planner to automate our process of routine ope...
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Manager
4 years of experienceFireMon in a 100+ firewall environment.
Rating: 8 out of 10
October 23, 2023We use FireMon to track changes in traffic, find rules that we can clean up and restrict, and report to higher-ups. I personally use it to export lists of potential rules to c...
Firemon - A reliable source for your audit needs
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 21, 2023We use firemon to real time reporting when a change occurs in addition to using it for a biannual clean of any rules that have not been used for 90 days.
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Administrator
8 years of experienceFireMon - Powerful compliance audit and rule automation
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 8, 2023We use FireMon to analyze and automatically manage firewall rules for our Palo Alto firewalls.
Verified user
Team Lead
1 year of experienceBlind to what changes are being made in your network? FireMon is the answer!
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 6, 2023FireMon is being used to provide detailed historical records of every change/revision made on every network appliance enterprise-wide. It provides instant visibility on what c...
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Engineer
2 years of experienceLong time User. The value is worth it, despite challenges.
Rating: 8 out of 10
February 25, 2023We use FireMon Daily. It helps to organize and monitor Firewall policy Health, identify issues and act on them. It is great for rule cleanup and compliance checks. It generate...
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Engineer
9 years of experienceWork in progress
Rating: 7 out of 10
February 25, 2023We use FireMon to validate rules, test traffic pathing and to do TFAs for minimizing overly permissive rules.
Cost effective and operationaly acceptable for basic operations
Rating: 6 out of 10
February 24, 2023We use it to get an analysis of our firewall policies and get some recommendations on what policies have not been used for a long time and can be removed, policy re-ordering, ...
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Employee
1 year of experienceNetwork Security Compliance and Audit
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 15, 2023Firemon is an awesome Audit tool, recently this tool has helped us to identify the traffic that is hitting a particular rule. I highly recommend Firemon when it comes to harde...
Firemon a multiple brand integrator
Rating: 10 out of 10
October 28, 2022We use the PCI reports available on the appliance in order to know the levels of compliance of our business.
FireMon Security Manager that will help you.
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 19, 2022I use it for reporting and checking for unused firewall rules to do cleanup. I am still new to the Firemon product, so I have not used all of its functions.
Verified user
Engineer
2 years of experienceFiremon! The time saver!
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 14, 2022The issues are You have to learn new commands via CLI. There iS no tool to analyze the diagnostic file, you have to send it to Firemon support.
FireMon Firewall Analyzer Review
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 1, 2022We used FireMon as a firewall analyzer of internal and external perimeters. We were able to gather relevant tcpdumps instead of looking directly in the firewall. This is very ...
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Administrator
2 years of experienceFireMon: Comprehensive and Great Addition to your Security Arsenal
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 11, 2021Review FWs for Best Practices (Compliance and Assessment) and Policy Optimization (rule placement, rule review) for specific MSS customers. It is also useful to review policy ...
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Professional
1 year of experienceSolid and reliable
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 7, 2021FireMon is a great product that compiles information for security and networking issues and is easy to use. Support is some of the best in the industry, questions about the pr...
Verified user
Engineer
3 years of experience
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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.
FireMon Videos
Improve Security Operations. Improve Security Outcomes.
FireMon: Enforce Compliance
FireMon: Manage Change
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 Firewalls and Security Gateways
- 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
FireMon Competitors
FireMon Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Web based browser UI |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | All countries except North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba |
| Supported Languages | English |
FireMon Downloadables
Frequently Asked Questions
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.7.
The most common users of FireMon are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
FireMon Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 8% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 15% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 77% |
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FireMon in a 100+ firewall environment.
Rating: 8 out of 10
October 23, 2023
CS
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- FireMon has made it easy to discover places where rules can be improved.
- FireMon has improved our security on existing firewalls and makes it easy to discover when new dangerous rules are implemented.
Firemon - A reliable source for your audit needs
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 21, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
- It helps us save us time in determining what change was made and by whom.
- Real time alerting is a great convenience in helping us know if something went wrong, we can immediately review the last report to determine what has changed.
- Allows us to determine what rules are not used and if said rules are still required.
FireMon - Powerful compliance audit and rule automation
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 08, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Faster rule recertification
- Faster rule review
- Better compliance process
Blind to what changes are being made in your network? FireMon is the answer!
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 06, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Reduced complexity
- Reduction in inactive firewall rules
- Quicker times to restoration during outages knowing what changed
Long time User. The value is worth it, despite challenges.
Rating: 8 out of 10
February 25, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
9 years of experience
- Saves hundreds of hours per year on research.
- Improves security, as you can find insecure rules much easier with Severity ratings.
- Cleaned up thousands of unused rules.
- Use TFA and object usage to harden existing rules.
Work in progress
Rating: 7 out of 10
February 25, 2023
LT
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
- our ROI has been nonexistent since we have had licenses bought year over year that have not been deployed.
Cost effective and operationaly acceptable for basic operations
Rating: 6 out of 10
February 24, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- 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.
Network Security Compliance and Audit
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 15, 2023
AA
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- To identify the traffic that is hitting this rule positive impact
- Audit positive impact
- Hardening Positive impact
- NAT logging seems to be not supported Negative
Firemon a multiple brand integrator
Rating: 10 out of 10
October 28, 2022
JP
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Increase efficiency in compliance reporting
- Gain visibility in enviroments with multiple brands
FireMon Security Manager that will help you.
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 19, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- A good reporting tool to look into inactive rules.
Firemon! The time saver!
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 14, 2022
JP
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Easier to delete inactive firewall rules
- Increased efficiency in compliance reporting
FireMon Firewall Analyzer Review
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 01, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Reduced overall complexity of our internal firewall
- Improved our GDPR and NIST compliance rating requirement
- Overall SOC monitoring has improved
FireMon: Comprehensive and Great Addition to your Security Arsenal
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 11, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- saves time and resources in compliance reporting
Solid and reliable
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 07, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- 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
Rating: 10 out of 10
December 05, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- 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
Rating: 7 out of 10
December 01, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Firewall intake process
- Secure firewall policy creation
Firemon - Excellent Firewall Management/Auditing Solution
Rating: 9 out of 10
June 12, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- 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
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 04, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
6 years of experience
- 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".
Firemon Catches them All!
Rating: 8 out of 10
May 11, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Easy of use
- ROI
- Reporting
Firemon is great too for the overworked Firewall admin
Rating: 10 out of 10
May 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- 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
Rating: 9 out of 10
May 04, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Some BUs are using it to help tighten firewall rules
- Mainly used for compliance
FireMon is one of the best scaleable, hybrid cloud security solutions
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 23, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- 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
Rating: 8 out of 10
December 16, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- 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
Rating: 8 out of 10
December 04, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- ROI has to deal with Third Party Audits
- Has saved us tons of man hours of doing discoovery work