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FireFlow™ Intelligent Workflow for Network Security

With a constant influx of change requests and increasing compliance requirements, managing the network security policy change lifecycle has become a complex, time consuming, manual and often disjointed process for many organizations.

AlgoSec’s FireFlow™ solution goes beyond standard change reporting management. It provides unparalleled visibility, insight and analysis into the network security policy change lifecycle. An end-to-end solution, FireFlow automates the change lifecycle process from submission to audit. It ensures that security policy changes are approved, necessary and implemented as intended.

FireFlow is compatible with multiple vendors in integrated environments. It checks the impact of requested changes on an enterprise’s security posture to identify potential

risks and provides networking and security team members the best practices for mitigating discovered risks. FireFlow also automatically matches request tickets to detected changes and reports on mismatches and unauthorized changes.

FireFlow also significantly reduces the workload on the networking team: Thanks to its unique ability to detect the network topology, FireFlow automatically identifies the devices that need to be changed. Importantly, FireFlow automatically recognizes unnecessary changes, helping control policy bloat and wasted time. FireFlow also helps clarify vague change requests, and pinpoints what needs to be changed in the policy via smart firewall-aware operations.

The solution is automated but customizable to ensure that corporate security policies can be easily applied and enforced in the lifecycle process to maximize security, adhere to compliance standards and optimize operational performance. The solution is scalable from an infrastructure, platform and configuration perspective. AlgoSec’s FireFlow is the only Network Security Lifecycle Management solution to offer these advantages.

CHALLENGE OF NETWORK SECURITY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

SOLUTION

Manually Administering Multiple Change Requests Weekly

Automate the Process

Translating Business Requests into Technical Requirements

Speak Firewall Languages

Managing Multi-Vendor/Multi Device Environments

Cross Vendor Scalable Solution

Understanding if there is a Need for a Change

Powerful Multi-Vendor Querying

Knowing which Policies are Impacted by a Change

Simultaneous Query of All Relevant Devices

Knowing which Polices Should be Added or Modified

Deep Understanding of Vendor Configuration

Ensuring Changes are Made as Intended

Automatic Verification and Validation

Ensuring All Changes are Pre-Approved

Reconciles Tickets with Changes

Understanding the Impact on the Security Posture

Proactive “What If” Risk Analyses

Managing Policy Rule Base Bloat

Avoid Introducing Unneeded Changes

Complying with Corporate and Regulatory Standards

Provide Automated Audit Trail

Maintaining an Audit Trail

Automate Audit Trail Function

Linking Change Requests with Actual Changes

Link Rule to Request

Integrate with existing End User Change Request Interface

Accept Tickets from Existing Systems

Leading publication eWeek dubs the AlgoSec FireFlow "the next hot ticket item."

Leading analyst firm Frost & Sullivan calls FireFlow "instrumental" in network security lifecycle management.

“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

“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