Firewall Wizards mailing list archives
Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase
From: "Lord Sporkton" <lordsporkton () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 11:25:23 -0700
2008/5/14 arvind doraiswamy <arvind.doraiswamy () gmail com>:
Hey Guys, What parameters would you look for if you audited a large rulebase for an enterprise firewall? These are a few I could think of. Anything else that you guys consistently look at when managing/auditing your firewalls? Do take note that I'm talking just singularly about the rule-base and not other configuration information i.e: I'm not looking at things like -- Low console session timeout OR Telnet admin interface open etc. I'm looking at just the rulebase this time around. Here are my parameters: Rules which have "any" or an equivalent keyword in them Rules where an entire subnet has been granted access to a resource Rules where a range of IP addresses has been granted access to a resource Rules where a large range of ports has been opened to an IP Address / Addresses Rules where there are design issues in the protocol itself eg. Unencrypted traffic Rules which are redundant and can be removed from the rulebase Thanks Arvind _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
I always spend a decent amount of time making sure that rules are in the correct order, so a more general deny rule doesnt end up blocking access to a specific resource just because it was higher on the list, or vice versa also comments, any rule with out a comment gets deleted, if it wasnt important enough to have a comment, its not important enough to still be here. high use rules at the top of the list other than that just what you already said hope that helps Lawrence -- -Lawrence _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Auditing a firewall rulebase arvind doraiswamy (May 19)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase Darden, Patrick S. (May 20)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase Chuck Benson (May 27)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase kevin horvath (May 20)
- null routes and VPN's Kerry Milestone (May 20)
- Re: null routes and VPN's Lord Sporkton (May 27)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase Lord Sporkton (May 20)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase R. DuFresne (May 27)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase Paul Melson (May 20)
- Re: Auditing a firewall rulebase Darden, Patrick S. (May 20)