FireMon Information Reviews & Insights

We use the PCI reports available on the appliance in order to know the levels of compliance of our business.

Scenarios where any customer handle different brands of appliances this tool helps to get reports of all of them.
Scenarios where you only have one unique brand this tool may not be the best option.

I use it for reporting and checking for unused firewall rules to do cleanup. I am still new to the Firemon product, so I have not used all of its functions.

The dashboard is very good, so you can get reporting in one central location for all company firewalls. You cannot make firewall rule change on Firemon Security Manager.

The issues are You have to learn new commands via CLI. There iS no tool to analyze the diagnostic file, you have to send it to Firemon support.

The tool give the customer a lot of visibility about the appliances in general.

Review FWs for Best Practices (Compliance and Assessment) and Policy Optimization (rule placement, rule review) for specific MSS customers. It is also useful to review policy changes as they can be quickly viewed for each domain.

good selection of canned reports in various areas, helpful in troubleshooting issues (firewall changes, health)

My team uses Firemon primarily for a firewall reviews due to PCI compliance. Firemon offers a great overview of how our network is built and how it can be utilized better for requirements one in the PCI – DSS. Currently, the software is being used by just a department and not the whole organization however, Firemon does impact the entire organization's compliance program.

Within my industry I have multiple contacts that are looking for exactly what Firemon does. Not only can the software help compliance professional but also network engineers who need a better picture of how infrastructure is set up. As well as new employees that need to learn the environment quickly.

We use FireMon Security Manager, not only for our internal FW administration but also as part of our Managed Services. More specifically, it's part of our offer for managed firewalls service. This allows us to include more task to offer in the service like periodically cleaning firewall policies and other complains repots, i.e PCI reports.

Well suited in firewalls with legacy configurations, for companies that are PCI compliant and need specific reports for internal/external audits, or for companies with co-administration.
Less appropriate for new network and security implementations.

We use Firemon security Manager to maintain all the Cisco based firewalls across our organization. It is used to check the daily reports updates and changes on each and every firewall.

Mainly we use FireMon to get the audit reports on the firewalls.

FireMon is the best tool to manage all devices on a single platform.