Network Operations

Key Benefits for Network Operations Teams Expedite troubleshooting by instantly understanding how firewall rules affect network traffic. Monitor and track policy changes across multiple devices and vendors. Clean up and optimize firewall rulesets to improve performance and availability. Dramatically reduce auditing efforts with automatically populated audit and compliance reports. Easily migrate the security policy to support upgrades and vendor swaps. Reduce time required to process firewall policy changes by 60 percent.

Managing ever-growing security policies across multiple vendors, geographies and operations teams has become increasingly challenging. As network environments become more and more complex, network operations teams often lose visibility  and control of the network security policy. As a result, daily operations such as troubleshooting and introducing firewall policy changes without affecting business functions or breaking compliance, become time-consuming and error-prone tasks. To simplify operations and reduce the IT resources required for internal and external audits, network operations teams need solutions that substitute today’s manual tasks with intelligent automation.

AlgoSec Security Management Suite for Network Operations Teams

Used by more than 800 of the world’s leading organizations, the AlgoSec Security Management Suite enables network operations teams to streamline firewall management by automating manual, repetitive and error-prone tasks surrounding change management, troubleshooting and auditing. Because the Security Management Suite works across all major firewall vendors and supports devices such as routers and VPNs, it improves overall operational efficiency, network performance and availability.

 
AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) non-intrusively analyzes rulesets, logs and topology information to provide operations teams with unprecedented visibility and control of the network security policy. By providing an in-depth understanding of the impact of the security policy on network traffic, AFA simplifies troubleshooting and change planning. AFA also makes it easy to clean up and optimize firewall rulesets by discovering unused rules and objects, consolidating rules and even reordering them for optimal performance. To simplify compliance efforts, AFA automatically tracks every policy change and generates audit-ready reports that instantly demonstrate firewall compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies.
 

AlgoSec FireFlow automates the firewall security change workflow, reducing the time required to process changes by 60 percent while increasing accuracy, accountability and governance. FireFlow eliminates "already works" change requests and provides optimal design and implementation plans for adding new firewall rules. FireFlow can even execute the rule changes directly on the associated devices, saving more time and eliminating manual errors.

Key Features for Network Operations Teams:

• Topology-aware traffic analysis and "what-if" queries simplify troubleshooting and planning.
• Policy cleanup and optimization reports flag unnecessary rules and provide recommendations on optimizing rulesets to boost firewall performance.
• Automatically populated compliance reports dramatically reduce firewall audit preparation time.
• Intelligent Policy Tuning™ enables tightening of overly permissive firewall rules (e.g. ANY source, destination or service) without impacting business requirements.
• Automated change workflows provide optimal design and implementation plans for adding new rules and prevent unneeded changes.
• Policy comparison reports facilitate migration projects to newer or other vendor technologies.