AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer, Operations Management Edition

The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA), Operations Management Edition is built on the core AFA software module which is standard across all editions it supports the daily operational activities and change management requirements of firewall administrators as well as maintaining detailed change history reports for all firewall configurations. The AFA Operations Management Edition assists the network operations team with their ongoing firewall administration and audit requirements. It enables security officers who track policy changes to ensure that configuration matches policy.

The Operations Management Edition consists of the AlgoSec Core Module.  Edition highlights follow:

• Firewall analysis and reports for change tracking: Visual display of the firewall policy, including topology, traffic, rules and objects. It also includes analysis of the routing table and provides a connectivity diagram. Shows changes from previous reports on the same firewall.
• Group reports for change tracking: Create a report on a group of firewalls with either predefined or ad-hoc firewall definitions.
• Customized report scheduling: Schedule an analysis on a per firewall or group of firewalls based on pre-defined intervals (daily, weekly, monthly, etc) and issue a report.
• Report comparisons: Compare any two reports – either the same firewall or different firewalls or different firewall vendors. Track the changes in a firewall policy between reports of any two dates.  Show the changes in traffic, rules, services, host groups, topology and objects.
• eMail notifications: Send emails to pre-assigned users following a firewall analysis with the summary of the analysis and the changes from previous reports.
• Queries: Query a specific firewall or a group of firewalls to determine which rules control traffic between specific sources and destinations. This enables help desk teams to easily troubleshoot and prevent disruptions. It also provides for seamless server IP migration and security checking.
• Real time change alerting: Continuously poll firewall policy changes and send email alerts when a change is detected.
• Basic compliance: By exploring the policy and change history an auditor receives the required information to produce a report that complies with corporate and regulatory standards such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Basel II Capital Accord, HIPAA, BS 7799 / ISO 17799, FISMA, Payment Card Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Cyber Security Standards (CIP).
• What-if analysis: Analyze a firewall policy before actually pushing it into production. Allows planned changes to be tested to ensure that the change in policy will produce the required results.

In addition to the features listed above all editions provide the infrastructure software features for the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer that include:

• Graphical user interface
• Data collection setup
• User management and access control
• Reporting infrastructure