AlgoSec™ Firewall Analyzer (AFA)

The AlgoSec™ Firewall Analyzer (AFA) solutions are the market’s leading Firewall Operations and Security Risk Management offerings. The AlgoSec solutions are broken into three distinct software modules, each focused on addressing a specific set of technical requirements within the enterprise: Firewall Operations Management, Policy Optimization and Risk Management. Customers may purchase combinations of these modules in four pre-bundled license editions according to their specific needs.

Solution Highlights:

Firewall Policy Optimization: AFA maximizes operations by eliminating clutter based on rule usage statistics.

Intelligent Rule Re-Ordering: AFA provides specific recommendations to easily and quickly reorganize a few rules to dramatically improve performance, saving on costly hardware upgrades.

Firewall Policy Rule Cleanup: AFA optimizes performance by finding disabled, expired, duplicated, covered, partially covered and unused rules and objects.

Firewall Risk Management: AFA protects business critical assets by automatically learning the topology, analyzing all traffic the firewall may encounter and identifying and prioritizing threats based on industry best practices.

Firewall Change Planning: AFA prevents unnecessary changes -- research has found that some 20 to 30 percent of changes are not even needed -- in multi vendor, multi-layer environments saving on time and labor.

Firewall Change Management: AFA delivers a comprehensive change process, including “what if” analyses across multiple vendor platforms.

Firewall Operations Management: AFA simplifies management across firewall vendors, providing efficient and fast troubleshooting by offering policy server queries.

Firewall Policy Migration: AFA simplifies what are now tedious and error-prone conversions, upgrades and migrations across firewall platforms and vendors, ensuring they are carried out properly.

Firewall Server IP Migration: AFA streamlines IP migrations between business critical servers ensuring continuity by preventing service disruptions.

Firewall Continuous Audit: AFA audits all firewalls and generates automatic email alerts based on changes to risk profiles and provides comprehensive audit trail.

Firewall Security Compliance: AFA provides turnkey solutions including audit-ready compliance reports for leading regulations including PCI DSS, SOX and ISO 27001 and security policy management with internal and industry regulations and best practices.

Leading enterprises and organizations and MSPs worldwide and rely on AlgoSec’s solutions as a critical component of their firewall management in order to protect their business critical processes and assets by optimizing performance, reducing risk and remaining compliant.

Leading auditors and consultants also rely on AlgoSec's solutions and their out-of-the-box compliance reporting to prepare their clients for their next audits.

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