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Firewalls management tools


From: firewalls () securityfocus com
Date: 17 Mar 2008 15:17:29 -0000

Hi!
Working on multiple firewalls equipments (checkpoint / Fortinet / NetscreenÂ…), I have identified two main subjects to 
improve our management tasks:
-    Improving firewall rules set on the complete firewall pool;
-    Mapping network flows :
        Being able to list all (authorised) flows between two hosts or subnets;
        Being able to quickly find a firewall with a deny rule on an operational flow;
-    Track and control device configuration 

In order to reach our goal, I have identified the following (-commercial-) products:
- Firewall Analyser (Algosec)
- Skybox assure
- Firemon from secure Passage
- SecureTrack from Tufin
- RedSeal SRM (more wide product but it seems to respond to my primary purpose)
- Firewall manager from Solsoft.

=> Does anyone have a first experience on this kind of product?
=> Do you think it would be better to use several firewall management solutions from each specific vendor?


Thank You!


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