Firewall Policy Cleanup and Optimization

Firewall policies continue to grow in size and complexity. Yet, the required manual discovery and analysis of unused, duplicate, conflicting and risky rules are often too time consuming and complex to fully resolve policy bloat. Organizations continue to struggle with the increasingly negative impact of an unmanageable security policy: more difficult and time-consuming firewall audits, increased exposure to risk and decreased network performance.

Your Firewall Security Policy - Uncluttered

The AlgoSec Security Management Suite helps companies clean up and optimize their firewall policies while maintaining the integrity of the network security policy. With support for all major firewall vendors, AlgoSec facilitates and optimizes network administration by dramatically reducing audit preparation time, boosting firewall performance and eliminating security holes.

AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) analyzes firewall rulesets, logs and routing information to provide actionable recommendations for cleaning and optimizing network security policies. AFA’s intelligent automation improves firewall performance without altering the security policy.

AlgoSec FireFlow automates the security change workflow process. Eliminating unnecessary changes that create policy bloat, FireFlow also provides the most efficient implementation plan for policy changes.

Key Cleanup and Optimization Features:

• Automatically identify:
  • Unused rules and objects
  • Unattached objects
  • Covered (shadowed) and duplicate rules that do not match traffic due to prior rules
  • Time-inactive rules
  • Rules with unused objects
  • Rules without comments
• Consolidate rules, such as rules with the same source and destination but different services.
• Intelligently reorder rules based on frequency of matched traffic.
• Tighten overly permissive rules, (e.g. ANY service) based on actual traffic, and without impacting business requirements.