TrustRadius Insights for ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
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.
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.
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Verified User
Executive in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
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.
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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
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.
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Verified User
Director in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
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.
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
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Verified User
Account Manager in Customer Service (51-200 employees)
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.
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Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
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.
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Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
