FireFlow™ Key Features

The AlgoSec FireFlow™ Network Security Lifecycle Management 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