Firemon is great too for the overworked Firewall admin
May 10, 2021
Firemon is great too for the overworked Firewall admin
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Security Manager
- Policy Optimizer
- Policy Planner
- Risk Analyzer
Overall Satisfaction with FireMon
We are currently using FireMon to monitor our primary corporate and DR firewalls. Also we use them to monitor our eCommerce environment firewalls. We are slowly expanding, as we have a number of retail locations, also with firewalls, and need to monitor them. We use this to push update and config changes, as well as backups and restores (when needed). We also use this to troubleshoot and test new policy implementations
- Configure management - multiple firewalls made easy
- Backups - a number of times this has come in handy
- Troubleshooting - being able to chase down a path issue
- Rule testing - planning before implementing
- Initial setup requires quick a bit of legwork if you want to do it right
- Definitely takes some learning if you are new to the system
- Making sure everything is tagged and tagged correctly is important and time consuming
- Reducing complexity is a huge ROI
- Ability for new team members to quickly understand the environment
- Backups and restore have saved us on multiple occasions
I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can easily import firewalls and begin to work on them to improve them