RE: Firewall rulebase audit

["Kevin Ortloff" <Kevin.Ortloff () j2global com>]

I would say that the best audit for firewalls are manual. There are
tools that can point things out to you, but usually I run nessus or
similar from the outside to gain knowledge of open ports, then I
manually go through the acl's. Once, that's cleaned up, look at your
object groups, hit counters, and translations.

 

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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:09 AM
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Subject: Re: Firewall rulebase audit

Hi

You can check check  this:

CIS Level 1 & 2 Benchmarks and Audit Tool for Cisco IOS Routers and PIX
firewalls.

http://cisecurity.org/bench_cisco.html

> I have a pair of PIX firewalls that I need to audit. I was hoping to 
> get some guidelines for doing this. Antyhing specific to PIX would be
even better.


> 1) What is the best/easiest way to document a current policy?
> Spreadsheet?? I would like to know what ports (services) are open and 
> to where? Also duplicates, etc.? Would it be best just to put it in a 
> spreadsheet? Is there a tool for this?


> 2)Is there standard Analysis checklist to go by when reviewing a (PIX)
firewall policy?


> Any help is highly appreciated.


> Thank you,

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