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AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer™
Operations Managem-ent & Optimization
Risk Management & Compliance
FireFlow™
Key Features
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FireFlow™ Key Features

The AlgoSec FireFlow™ Intelligent Workflow for Network Security solution is easy to deploy and use. It is an end-to end solution specifically designed to automate the security policy change lifecycle from submission to audit. FireFlow integrates with enterprises’ existing methods of workflow management, which often includes emails and web forms, as well as multiple enterprise change management systems including, BMC Remedy, HP ServiceCenter (formerly Peregrine) and others.

The FireFlow solution is built on AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer™ (AFA) technology which provides unprecedented analysis of firewalls, routers, and VPNs. With FireFlow companies have an automated policy change management solution that allows them to proactively reduce risk, enforce security policies and increase operational efficiency.

The FireFlow product provides transparency to key stakeholders throughout the change lifecycle. This delivers an unprecedented level of IT governance in the network security arena providing complete accountability. FireFlow assists network administrators translate business requests into actionable policy changes. It a scalable solution that supports multiple vendors, including Check Point, Cisco and Juniper.

Key FireFlow Business Process Management Benefits:

  • Automate the process of multiple change requests
  • Manage changes in multi-vendor, multi-device environments
  • Verify changes are pre-approved
  • Understand if a need really exists to implement a change
  • Discover which policies are affected by the change
  • Identify the impact on the security posture
  • Ensure changes are executed as intended
  • Avoid bloat of the policy rule base
  • Comply with corporate and regulatory standards
  • Link change request tickets to actual rule changes
  • Produce audit-ready reports of the change life cycle


Key FireFlow Technical Benefits:

  • Query across multiple platforms to understand if an existing rule negates the need for a change
  • Identify what policies need to be modified and how
  • Provide “what if” analyses across multiple platforms to view the impact on the security posture
  • Automatically match request tickets to detected changes and report mismatches and unauthorized changes
  • Support multiple ticketing queues
  • Grant permissions to users via roles
  • Conduct database searches to identify tickets based on customizable criteria using a rich query language
  • Multi-language front end
  • Offer a customizable dashboard view

 



“AlgoSec’s Firewall Analyzer is a must have for anyone who manages a rule set of 100 or more. ”


Network World Magazine



“By creating FireFlow using the AFA engine, AlgoSec has effectively created a solution that can automate the entire network security lifecycle...”


Frost & Sullivan Analyst



“We quickly saw a clear return on our investment with the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer... ”


Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik



“The AFA allows us to get all of our firewall information in one place, providing IT Governance and visibility where it did not exist.”


Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik



“Network security VARs, take note: AlgoSec’s FireFlow network policy change workflow management software is the next hot-ticket item for customers.”


eWeek Magazine



“The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer fills a critical need for us by automating what was a manual, labor intensive and error prone process. ”


Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik



“By utilizing AFA we no longer require the services of an external source to perform an audit.”


Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet



“It (AFA) easily and quickly provided Atos Worldline with the ability to understand, track and verify changes to our firewall infrastructure…”


Massoud Kamran,
Security Consultant at Atos Worldline Belgium



“AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer’s automated and intelligent analysis lets us know the implications of a change and avoid potential risks which save us time, effort and money. ”


Peter Johannes,
head of Security and Architecture Policy at Atos Worldline Belgium



“AlgoSec’s Firewall Analyzer has helped us significantly improve our overall network security.”


Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet



“Using AFA’s turnkey solution for PCI DSS has been invaluable for us in terms of time and effort.”


Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet

 

“The integrity of the company (AlgoSec) and its employees surpassed our expectations and has raised the bar for what we look for in other vendors as well.”


Lutz Bleyer, Chief Security Officer,
FIDUCIA



“By utilizing AFA we no longer require the services of an external source to perform an audit.”


Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet.



“With the AFA we can focus on what is most important to Porsche Informatik – our customers.”


Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik



“AlgoSec affords us realizing operational efficiencies in global security policy management and compliance.”


Hugo Van der Veeken,
Atos Worldline SA/NVsecurity department head