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Re: Coding a custom firewall manager for multiple firewall brands. Feasible?
From: K K <kkadow () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:40:14 -0500
Check out Matasano's "Playbook": http://runplaybook.com/ I tried it about a year ago, was impressed. Kevin On 6/30/09, plopz <minggyang () gmail com> wrote:
Hi everyone, I'd just recently got an extra job role as a firewall administrator and I'm faced with a network that consists of multitudes of firewall brands (nokia, sidewinder etc. ) bulging with almost 3000+ rules. The networks are also segmented and structured in such a way that adding a new path from one host to another services requires multiple entries into various firewalls that are in the path. As the requests for new connectivity come in hundreds or more per week, I feel that the current implementation is not really scalable. (manual data entries into firewalls and fight-fire trouble-shooting :( I'd look at existing firewall managment tools such as solsoft, algosoft etc. but they don't seems to cover some of the brands that we have. There are also budget issues, red tapes, securities, stability etc etc issues from third party vendor... I'm contemplating on trying to code a custom firewall manager that is able to handle the daily change request and push down the different rules into the different brand of firewalls in our network. Do you guys think it's worth the effort or acquiring a third party firewall manger is better? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Coding-a-custom-firewall-manager-for-multiple-firewall-brands.-Feasible--tp24275584p24275584.html Sent from the Firewall Wizards mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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