Name: Stonesoft Firewall (Discontinued)
Rating: 7.8 (3 reviews)
Author: Discontinued Products

Customer Engagement

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Functional Testing

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Analysis

Enterprise Search

Enterprise

Accounting

CTRM

Financial Research

Financial Risk Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Compensation Management

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printers

3D Printing

API Design

Cloud Migration

Cloud Storage

Component Content Management

Configuration Management

Data Pipeline

Database DevOps

DevOps

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Interoperability

M2M Application Development

Managed Public Cloud Infrastructure

Network Performance Monitoring

Product Implementation Services

Relational Database Management Systems

SaaS Backup

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Content Marketing

Data Management

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Attribution

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Search Marketing Intelligence

Social Media Management

Social Media Publishing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Intelligent Virtual Assistant

Sales Enablement

Sales Training

Sales

Data Loss Prevention

Security

Awards Management

Construction Accounting

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Digital Forensics

Fleet Management

Hospital Management

Insurance Agency Management

Veterinary

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Stonesoft firewalls were acquired and rebranded as McAfee Firewall Enterprise (MFE), then divested by McAfee and acquired by Forcepoint in 2016, and have reached end of life (EOL).

The Cisco Firepower® 1000 Series for small to medium-size businesses and branch offices is a family of four threat-focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) security platforms designed to deliver business resiliency through superior threat defense. The vendor provides that they offers exceptional sustained performance when advanced threat functions are enabled. The 1000 Series’ throughput range addresses use cases from the small office, home office, remote branch office to the Internet edge. The 1000 Series platforms run Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Cisco® Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software.

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Stonesoft Firewall (Discontinued)

Firewalls are designed to block unauthorized access to and from networks, but chiefly to stop Internet users from accessing private networks.

Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

Discontinued Products

A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out

Identification Technologies

Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content

Visualization Tools

Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.

Content Inspection

Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering

Policy-based Controls

Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall

Active Directory and LDAP

Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories

Firewall Management Console

Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management

Reporting and Logging

Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns

VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses

High Availability

Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working

Stateful Inspection

Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

Proxy Server

A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

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Systems Engineer

McAfee Firewall Enterprise 2016-07-22 10:00:43

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Overly complex

Configuration file

End user

Packet capture

Remote access

Vpn client

Reporting services

Full control

Home

Firewall Software

My former employer used McAfee Firewall Enterprise across the whole organization. The solution itself addressed the overall security posture of the organization, assisted in remote access of end users and provided other services such as SSO to onsite users. The control center appliance was also used to administer multiple installation points providing easier management for each location.

Based on the SecureComputing Sidewinder firewalls, the McAfee Firewall Enterprise does similar backend containerization of each service which provides for added security in the unlikely event of failures or breeches.
Tie in reporting services (if used by the admin) provide very granular details on rules accessed and the firewalls response to the requests.
Configurable options are plentiful. Unbound DNS can be configured on each "burb" (SecureComputing/McAfee parlance for interface), similar options for sendmail while rulesets can be configured at the application level down to simple IP-filter making options for enhancing security as well as troubleshooting equally as useful.
Full control over shell for scripting and/or scheduling (cron) purposes.
Solid HA and patching architecture.
Support was always helpful, knowledgeable and insightful (especially the staff that migrated from SecureComputing).

For an application-layer firewall the applications supported (at the time I managed them) were too few and would need to be expanded and the application ruleset needed to be expanded as well.
The remote access VPN client configuration was overly complex for the average user and would need to be supplemented with a configuration file that had already been generated. Other solutions from CheckPoint or Cisco ASA are not as complex for end user remote access.
Enhancing the GUI with a builtin "packet capture" feature would be useful for administrators not familiar with tcpdump.

In its highly available configuration the impact on any business objective has been positive given the fact that any downtime of the firewall would negatively impact all business objectives.

Stonesoft Firewall (Discontinued)

Overview

What is Stonesoft Firewall (Discontinued)?