FireMon eliminates time-consuming processes and increases your IT security staff’s efficiency, effectiveness and quality of work. FireMon retrieves all of the information about any change made and records the current configuration in detail — right when a change happens. You’ll always have the current and archived configuration immediately available.

You can decrease the size of your rule base to improve device processing speeds. You can quickly identify misconfigured applications that cause performance problems on the network. Your IT security teams can focus on other duties because FireMon never misses a change.

With FireMon you can:

Automate analysis

By automating resource-intensive change management analysis, you eliminate the need to bring in costly consultants. What takes consultants weeks to analyze, FireMon can do in minutes.   FireMon:

• Quickly identifies how an existing or new configuration affects connectivity and compliance.
• Automatically delivers analysis reports at the most important time – immediately after a new configuration is detected.

Make the right change

In a complex enterprise environment, a single firewall access change requires careful analysis of even the most efficiently ordered rule base. The Rule Recommendation feature in FireMon automates this analysis and provides you with a plan to implement the change request. Based on the access that you need to provide, FireMon suggests precisely how you can modify the rule base to meet the access change.

Prevent unintended misconfiguration

FireMon provides the formatted results of configuration change details in time increments that you define. Because the report also displays changes between installations, it may be especially helpful if you manage several firewalls from a security device manager, where changes can be accumulated over time by different users before they are installed to a firewall.

Decrease response time to critical issues and emergencies

• Streamlined analysis features and device intelligence quickly turns raw data into valuable information.
• Be the first to know if a configuration change is going to cause a network outage or provide unintentional authorization. Then you can take immediate steps to prevent an emergency.

Test policies before you install them

The Policy Test audit check enables you to verify a saved policy for connectivity through a firewall before you install it.

• You define the traffic and the expected behavior, and FireMon shows you where the policy falls out of bounds.
• You can verify allowed communication that was previously denied or denied communication that was previously allowed.
• FireMon provides results for the firewall and its operating system.

Simplify rule bases

• Simplicity equals efficiency – for firewall policies and for security administrators. Scheduled usage analysis reports arm you with information so you can easily maintain a short rule base.
• Using rule and object analysis, you can quickly respond to performance problems while maintaining tighter controls on systems and data.

Efficiently install the solution

• FireMon installation is simple, flexible and fast.
• For more complex implementations, Secure Passage’s Professional Services engineers can implement FireMon quickly.

See benefits immediately after implementation

• Low software learning curve:
• The FireMon interface is easy to use.
• FireMon provides familiar, vendor-based configuration displays.
• After a simple setup process, all monitored devices are immediately visible. Any change to the monitoring status is graphically displayed.
• With the first configuration change, policy installation or save that FireMon detects, you can begin using FireMon’s analysis features.

Manage FireMon data and users easily

• User management can be centralized to your existing RADIUS server.
• FireMon database backups can be automatic.