AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer

Firewall Operations

Change Monitoring

AFA monitors all changes to the network security policy in real-time and creates detailed firewall audit reports. Network administrators can opt to receive email notifications of unauthorized or risky changes.

Using the AlgoSec Extension Framework (AEF), AFA can monitor changes in a wide variety of devices including routers, switches, load balancers and proxies.

Network Topology Intelligence

AFA analyzes routing tables and automatically detects all interfaces, subnets and zones, allowing operations team to run powerful traffic queries. ("Which firewalls and rules are blocking traffic from point A to point B?"). Additionally, AFA generates a dynamic, interactive network map* to help visualize and analyze complex networks.

* Topology map available Q1 2012

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Policy Optimization and Cleanup

AFA provides the richest set of recommendations for optimizing and cleaning up cluttered policies.

• Discover unused rules and objects, as well as shadowed, duplicate and expired rules.
• Reorder rules for optimal firewall performance.
• Intelligent Policy Tuner™ tightens overly permissive rules without impacting business requirements.

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Risk Analysis

AFA instantly discovers and prioritizes all risks and potentially risky rules in the firewall policy by drawing on its knowledgebase. AFA provides the largest risk knowledgebase available, including industry regulations, best practices, and customizable corporate security policies.

AFA also assigns and tracks a security rating for each device and group of devices, allowing organizations to quickly pinpoint devices that require attention, and measure the effectiveness of the security policy over time.

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Auditing and Compliance

AFA generates automatically populated compliance reports for industry regulations, including PCI-DSS, SOX, NERC and ISO. These detailed reports easily demonstrate firewall compliance. If the network security policy does not adhere to regulatory or corporate standards, the reports identify the exact rules and devices that cause gaps in compliance.

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