Firewall Compliance Audit - AlgoSec's Audit Partners

Firewalls are an enterprises first and continued line of defense. As firewalls become more complex, streamlining the audit process while ensuring that risk and clutter are not injected into the firewall rule base becomes an extremely labor-intensive and time consuming task.

Many organizations have found that manually auditing firewalls is a cumbersome, error-prone process. The overwhelming number of rules, and the constant influx of change requests makes it difficult for enterprises to effectively audit their configurations let alone comply with corporate and industry standards.

AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) technology automatically and continuously collects information from multiple firewalls across multiple vendors, including Check Point, Cisco and Juniper/Netscreen, and analyzes their compliance with industry best practices or customized policies as well as analyzing their usage statistics. With AlgoSec technology, IT Operations professionals can optimize their rule base to eliminate unused, duplicated and ineffective rules and objects – ensuring their configuration is free of clutter which can inject risk. Risk Management professionals can discover and remedy policy violations that introduce risk and lead to non-compliance.

AlgoSec Solutions for Auditors and Consultants

Auditors and consultants find the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) to be the most effective and efficient tool to audit their clients' firewalls. Auditors and consultants have replaced the manual and error-prone process with AlgoSec’s automated continuous assessment against best practice policies based on industry standards including NIST, NSA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOX, FISMA and more. Within minutes, AlgoSec checks for vulnerabilities that manual controls cannot check in months. You can run tens of firewall audit reports over night in a batch. The following day, the reports will be waiting for you. Use of the AlgoSec technology ensures the same high quality and consistency across multiple audits even if done by less experienced auditors and consultants. It delivers side-by-side comparisons between past, present and future configurations of a firewall. The completely non-intrusive, offline, nature of the product reduces the risk to audit firms that may arise from the use of more intrusive tools. 

AlgoSec Allows Auditors and Consultants to Improve Profitability

The AFA not only improves the quality of the audit and the service you provide to your clients it allows you, the auditor or consultant, to improves your profitability because you can increase the number of firewalls you are auditing. Also, if the client collects their rule set and sends it to you, you may audit the firewalls remotely, saving travel time. The AlgoSec suite of products is competitively priced to provide significant cost savings in the number of hours that would otherwise be spent on a manual firewall audit.

AlgoSec Enables Auditors and Consultants to Increase Market Share

AlgoSec’s ability to automatically show improvements between one audit and the previous one encourages customer retention. AlgoSec’s solutions offer real value for your customers, leading to better customer satisfaction. You can gain a real advantage by differentiating yourself from other boutique penetration-testing firms.

AlgoSec Provies Auditors and Consultants With Audit Ready Compliance Reporting

AlgoSec not only enables enterprises to maintain compliance with industry and government mandated standards it provides automatically completed compliance reports, out-of-the-box, for leading standards including PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and SOX. This allows you to quickly provide your clients with audit-ready reports, allowing you to offer this as part of your overall audit or standalone services.

AFA Enables Auditors and Consultants to:

• Save time and labor by automating the audit and analysis process.
• Enhance their offerings by providing improved firewall management in increasingly complex and changing environments.
• Deliver side-by-side comparisons between past, present and future configurations of a firewall.
• Optimize their clients firewall performance to eliminate clutter by identifying duplicated, disabled, expired, and unused rules and objects and provides guidance for rule reordering.
• Improve their clients Change Management process by optimizing their workflow, offering “what if” analyses across multiple firewall platforms, Cisco®, Juniper® Netscreen™ and Check Point®, before implementing change requests.
• Ensure their clients Regulatory Compliance by aligning their configurations with standards: SOX, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FISMA, IAVA, Cyber Security Standards (CIP), Basel II, and NIST 800-41 and providing audit-ready automatically populated compliance reports out-of-the-box for PCI DSS, SOX and ISO 27001.
• Work remotely and view from any web browser in same format as the leading firewall platforms.
• Conduct deep risk Analysis and identify the most serious threats based on industry best practices, and prioritize subsequent risks and offer guidance, provided by AlgoSec, to their clients on what and how to remediate.
• Provide automated assessment and compliance reports on a per firewall basis, assuring continued adherence to internal corporate policies and external regulatory standards.
• Offer their clients continuous security audits while maintaining a complete audit trail and replace the error prone manual audit task.