Firemon - A reliable source for your audit needs
March 21, 2023

Firemon - A reliable source for your audit needs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Security Manager

Overall Satisfaction with FireMon

We use firemon to real time reporting when a change occurs in addition to using it for a biannual clean of any rules that have not been used for 90 days.

Pros

  • Give good real time reporting for anyone making a change to any of our firewalls
  • Provides good reporting tools that are out of box
  • Provide good customization tools that is specific to our needs
  • Upgrades are a simple process and support does relatively well with assisting us.

Cons

  • There support could be better in terms of having more SME's for their product.
  • FireMon should have a video repository to make it easier on how to use their product
  • customizing reports should be made simpler. If we are looking for a specific date range (e.g., 90 day report on what rules have been used, then it should be able to give us this information) however in our past experience this hasn't always been the case
The Firemon product is a platform that helps companies meet compliance requirements. It gives our network operators and engineers control and visibility over the network. With bigger organizations, the rulesets increase drastically and firemon is able to consolidate these reports into one pane or allow us to export the report to a file.
  • It helps us save us time in determining what change was made and by whom.
  • Real time alerting is a great convenience in helping us know if something went wrong, we can immediately review the last report to determine what has changed.
  • Allows us to determine what rules are not used and if said rules are still required.

Do you think FireMon delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with FireMon's feature set?

Yes

Did FireMon live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of FireMon go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy FireMon again?

Yes

We have only used firemon and there hasn't been a need to consider other products as we are satisfied with what Firemon can do.
Firemon product is overall good a product. It gives us a summary of who made what change, when it occurred and at what time, in real time. Their Out of box tools do satisfy the common requests for reporting and there options to create customized report allows us for more options as every environment is different. That is why I gave it an 8 rating.

Using FireMon

8 - Roles are from network engineers, operators to windows engineers. It helps give insight to those who are not part of the network team a look into the environment.
3 - Basic networking skills and an overall understanding of the infrastructure
  • real time reporting
  • auditing
  • custom reports
  • it allows those who do not have access to the env a peek of that the environment looks like
  • as we approach hybrid model, we will be able to utilize more of the product.
Its a good product overall and we have not considered any competitors as we are satisfied with what it has done for us.
Aruba ClearPass, CheckPoint, Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)

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