FireMon: Great Product
Updated October 16, 2020
FireMon: Great Product
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Security Manager
- Policy Optimizer
Overall Satisfaction with FireMon
We currently use FireMon for reviewing/cleaning up rules and plan to implement policy planner by the EOY. It improves and simplifies documentation.
- Lets you know what is unused so you can lock it down
- Improves the process of review rules
- Open up knowledge base on Google, to make searching easier with better results
- Saves time
- Nice documentation
None. This is the first we have used.
FireMon Feature Ratings
Network Policy Management and Support
Using FireMon
8 - System Admins, Network Admins Approver and Compliance for the approval process of our firewall rules
1 - Once it's was setup it basically runs itself except for patches and updates.
- provide documentation and approval process for firewall rule changes
- eliminate duplicate rules
- allows rule owner to review and verify rules are still required for business
- lest us know which rules are hit the most so we can move them to the top to help improve firewall performance
- don't know off hand
Evaluating FireMon and Competitors
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
It was much easier the doing everything manually. Looking forward to getting the rule approval process in place.
It would be nice if we had control over creating the approval process without going through profession services.
FireMon Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved | None |
Not Sure
no haven't contacted them in a while
Using FireMon
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Familiar | None |
- basic reports
- the more complex/custom reports can be challenging