The honest FireMon review
October 15, 2020

The honest FireMon review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Policy Optimizer

Overall Satisfaction with FireMon

FireMon is used in conjunction between the Network and Security team for security purposes like evaluating current security posture of the firewalls as far as rules and configurations in place. We are aiming to use it to automate yearly recurring review activities by our teams and to facilitate the amount of time it takes to complete them.
  • Rule review.
  • Best practice guidelines review.
  • Configuration review.
  • CIS benchmark integration would be great.
  • The reporting inside the platform is great, but the exported versions could be improved to facilitate reading and get a high summary executive view.
  • Firewall cleanup is easy.
  • The review and audit process are now easier than ever.
  • Collaboration between teams managing the firewalls.
They are two very well done tools, FireMon is better suited for firewall rules evaluation, configuration and review, Tenable.io is better suited for CIS benchmarking. We ended up using both of them in the end, it really depends of your needs and what you are looking for, the two tools are built for different purposes.
It is a nice monitor tool, don't expect anything more. Organisation processes are needed around its integration to enhance its use. Everything related to firewall optimization and cleanup is nicely done by FireMon, the solutions are also well presented and easy to implement. The reports are great, but it still require human interaction to fix things, don't expect the process to be automated.

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