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ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10
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9 out of 10

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Pros

Efficient Traffic Analysis: Users have praised the software for its ability to analyze traffic origins and destinations easily, along with identifying high-traffic users to manage bandwidth effectively. This feature enables network administrators to make informed decisions based on traffic patterns, optimizing network performance and resource allocation.

Effective Firewall Management: Reviewers appreciate how the Firewall Analyzer helps in efficiently managing firewall rules, enabling smooth compliance audits, and enhancing network security. By providing a user-friendly interface for rule configuration and monitoring, it streamlines firewall management processes and ensures robust protection against unauthorized access attempts.

Valuable Security Monitoring: Customers find the security monitoring feature of the Firewall Analyzer crucial for detecting and alerting potential attacks, thereby improving overall security measures. With real-time alerts and comprehensive threat detection capabilities, users can proactively respond to security incidents and safeguard sensitive data from breaches.

Reviews

8 Reviews

Fast to implement and get results. Very powerful. Ver straightforward to accomplish PCI remediations.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have remediated

my PCI findings about firewall activity monitoring. On the other hand, now I

have a fast query tool for forensics and I have found specific devices that

generated useless denied traffic. I use it as a log harvesting tool. Useful for traffic shaping and top solve buggy hosts generating useless packets in the network.

Pros

  • PCI compliance
  • Dashboards
  • Reports

Cons

  • UI can be improved, not very intuitive.
  • Search features can be improved too, I needed to export an excel file to perform an advanced search.
  • Automatic direct updates would be great.

Likelihood to Recommend

Is very

useful if you don’t have a log harvesting tool. It will act great if you need a

fast way to understand what is generating useless traffic in your network. If

you need automatic daily reports you can generate tons of different kinds with

this tool. It is a nice to have for forensics needs.

Vetted Review
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
1 year of experience

Easy product to use and highly recommend

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our business, it is used to monitor firewall traffic and send alerts if there is any traffic that is out of the ordinary, or if there are any attacks present on the firewall. Overall, it is our way of easily seeing what kind of traffic is going in and out of our firewall.

Pros

  • Displays firewall traffic in a user friendly dashboard
  • Customer service is always quick to respond
  • Setup and configuration is easy

Cons

  • Could be quicker to address patches in third party software used with ManageEngine that may come up in a vulnerability scan

Likelihood to Recommend

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is well suited if you need to be able to have insight into the types of traffic going in and out of your firewall along with being able to view if there are any present attacks to your firewall. Alerts can also be configured as well. These are just a few of the many things it can do but is what we use the most.

Vetted Review
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
1 year of experience

The things you don't know you need!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It was purchased for monitoring our VPN. Once in place I discovered many more features that saved time and money!

Pros

  • Allowed upper management to track VPN usage when employees were not on site and working.
  • Gave me real time monitoring of internet usage
  • alerted me to potential problems
  • Allowed me to track web usage real time

Cons

  • I am very picky and haven't really found anything I dislike.
  • It has all the features I need and more!
  • for my needs I haven't seen anything else I require or even need.

Likelihood to Recommend

Able to insure when an employee said they were using our VPN that the dates and times match what was claimed.

Real time monitoring of specific users and or web sites

Good software

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Works well for deeper examination of firewall. It can help improve your ability to locate weaknesses in your network security posture and allow you to find where your policies need to be changed. It also features a two-way firewall that monitors traffic coming into and going out of your network.

Pros

  • Analysis.
  • Analytics.
  • Audit.

Cons

  • Ease of use.
  • Faster deployment.
  • Comprehensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

Offering enhanced network security, performance, and connectivity, it is well as used in a business setting. Features including application control, web content filtering, firewall, IP address, application control, VPN, and good advanced threat protection. With enhanced features and advanced threat protection you get an awesome performance cost effective firewall device.

Vetted Review
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
1 year of experience

Honest review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by specific users within the security team, to check for any weaknesses within our local networks or on any of our servers as other members have different levels of access.

Pros

  • Easy Firewall rule management
  • Help with compliance audits
  • network traffic and bandwidth monitor

Cons

  • VPN server monitoring
  • Employee internet usage monitoring could do with more information
  • DNS lookup lists

Likelihood to Recommend

The service has been extremely useful within audits such as for ISO 27001 with services such as Firewall Policy and Network security management. As part of our hosting solution being able to supply evidence of live firewall compliance to our customers is also a nice feature with the compliance tests being run against Nist ISO 27001 and NERC to list a few.

For all your needs

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use in our organization to monitor the to and fro traffic. Who consumes most traffic/bandwidth? proactively analyze the reports to check for any unexpected traffic/unauthorized requests

Pros

  • Easy to analyze the origin and destination of traffic
  • Identifies user who is creating huge traffic
  • manage bandwidth usage and requirement
  • Helps to identify any hack attempts

Cons

  • Historical data presentation

Likelihood to Recommend

Identify who generated the traffic

Helps to identify Bandwidth usage

Vetted Review
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
10 years of experience

Excellent firewall

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

An excellent tool for web threat management and web traffic reporting. There is true confidence in the product and that it keeps what needs to stay out, out. It helps us in keeping our valuable information safe. Very good functionalities: features log analysis, firewall policy and change management, and generating custom network security reports.

Pros

  • Intrusion Detection System.
  • Log analytics.
  • Web-traffic reporting.
  • Thread management.

Cons

  • Configuration is easy and you can expect all the features and modules.
  • Simple and intuitive dashboard.
  • Firewall Analyzer helps us to gain insight into security threat and traffic.
  • Analyze the user behavior.

Likelihood to Recommend

We rely on the application to monitor the bandwidth to know user behavior. It makes the process of keeping your system and information safe super simple and streamlined. It supports multiple firewalls that include Check Point, Cisco, Cyberoam, Fortinet, Sense, Juniper, Huawei, Sophos, and WatchGuard. It helps us to gain insight into security threats and traffic.

Vetted Review
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
2 years of experience

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer saves time and effort

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is used internally by the network team in IT. Prior to implementation, we had to log into each of our firewalls and look for information or dig through a lot of logs. That was tedious to the point of being useless. With Firewall Analyzer, we have a much cleaner interface to interact with, we can monitor multiple firewalls at once, set up easier alerts, and drill down as necessary. It saves us quite a lot of time and effort.

Pros

  • Live traffic monitor: Firewall Analyzer lets us monitor traffic as it flows through the firewalls. It also breaks it down according to what type of traffic (e.g., web, mail, FTP, etc.) it is. It lists the tops hosts, the top users from traffic, and a lot of other useful statistics, all in a very visual format.
  • Security Monitoring: Another good visual graph Firewall Analyzer provides is the security one, which shows us if we're being attacked, from where, by what, how many, etc. It will also send us alerts when there's an alarm of any kind on the firewall.
  • Reporting: We can run all sorts of custom reports, and that helps us both with compliance and informing management as to what's going on. It would be difficult to describe all the various kinds of things we can include in these reports, but they are extensive.

Cons

  • Extra Functionality: There are a few features we don't use, either because of the size of our enterprise, or the way we have our firewalls configured. But all the elements to monitor and report on these features are still there, oftentimes meaning it takes longer to get to something we actually do use in the interface.
  • Setup Time: The initial setup was very simple, mostly just adding IPs and a syslog server. But for many of the more advanced features, like the NOC view, it can take a lot of tweaking to get right.
  • Intuitiveness: The reporting, while detailed and better than reading a raw syslog, can be unintuitive at times. Drilling down can sometimes get one stuck in a weird rabbit hole that isn't entirely relevant, and it's hard to get back to somewhere useful without just starting over.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your business has multiple firewalls, or even just one that really needs constant monitoring, Firewall Analyzer is great. It definitely cuts down on the sifting through raw data, and it puts all the firewall info right in one place. It can also check for various compliance standards (NIST, PCI DSS, &c.) if configured, although we do not use that at this time.

For a smaller shop with a single firewall, especially a SOHO type, I don't think this would add much value. It's definitely built for enterprise-level data and security.

Vetted Review
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
1 year of experience