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ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer

Overview

What is ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer?

ManageEngine offers Firewall Analyzer, a firewall security and policy management option supporting change and compliance of network security devices.

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Recent Reviews

Good software

8 out of 10
August 16, 2021
Incentivized
Works well for deeper examination of firewall. It can help improve your ability to locate weaknesses in your network security posture and …
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For all your needs

8 out of 10
July 26, 2021
Incentivized
We use in our organization to monitor the to and fro traffic. Who consumes most traffic/bandwidth? proactively analyze the reports to …
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Excellent firewall

10 out of 10
July 19, 2019
Incentivized
An excellent tool for web threat management and web traffic reporting. There is true confidence in the product and that it keeps what …
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Popular Features

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  • Vulnerability Scans (5)
    8.0
    80%
  • Policy Compliance Auditing (5)
    7.9
    79%
  • Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation (5)
    7.1
    71%
  • Device Discovery (5)
    6.5
    65%
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Features

Firewall Security Management

Firewall Security Management Software supports monitoring and configuration of firewalls from a central dashboard

7.2
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer?

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

ManageEngine offers Firewall Analyzer, a firewall security and policy management option supporting change and compliance of network security devices.

Reviewers rate Policy planning and rule management highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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August 16, 2021

Good software

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 and Cons
  • Analysis.
  • Analytics.
  • Audit.
  • 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.
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Feature Ratings
Firewall Security Management (8)
48.75%
4.9
Policy planning and rule management
N/A
N/A
Automated Policy Orchestration
80%
8.0
Device Discovery
80%
8.0
Policy Compliance Auditing
70%
7.0
Attack Path Simulation Testing
N/A
N/A
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
80%
8.0
Vulnerability Scans
80%
8.0
Firewall Rule Cleanup
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Greater understanding of environment.
  • More metrics.
  • Reports.
Alternatives Considered
You’ll be able to discover new devices as well as manage via a single interface. For a network person that may be less experienced with tech setups, this is a handy feature to have. This can be a great option for protection, particularly if you already have other elements of the UniFi system installed.
June 09, 2019

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer saves time and effort

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 and Cons
  • 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.
  • 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.
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Feature Ratings
Firewall Security Management (8)
55%
5.5
Policy planning and rule management
80%
8.0
Automated Policy Orchestration
N/A
N/A
Device Discovery
100%
10.0
Policy Compliance Auditing
90%
9.0
Attack Path Simulation Testing
N/A
N/A
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
90%
9.0
Vulnerability Scans
80%
8.0
Firewall Rule Cleanup
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Firewall Analyzer has definitely freed up a lot of IT's time, by congregating logs and displaying them in a more useful, visual way.
  • The cost for licenses and proactive alerting, compared to the man-hours spent reactively through data, paid for itself in a few months.
  • There was no negative impact to users, and only some to IT staff who had to train on the software, which mostly consisted of videos and playing around with the software.
Alternatives Considered
We used to use the built-in functionality of our Cisco ASA firewalls, and it was so complex as to be practically useless. There was no good way to find useful data without some kind of analyzer. We briefly tried Kiwi Syslog Server, but it wasn't much better, mostly just showing the logs we already tried to sift through, but color-coding them in case there was something we'd written a rule about.
Given the cost and features we demoed before implementation, we bought Firewall Analyzer because it did everything we needed it to for a reasonable price.
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