FireMon Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

We currently use the security manager modules to clean and fine-tune our set of policies centrally. We additionally use a policy planner to automate our process of routine operations in policy sets.

Environments where it is required to automate firewall security operations activities. Where it is required to have detailed change audit controls.

We use FireMon to validate rules, test traffic pathing and to do TFAs for minimizing overly permissive rules.

The ability to find an overly permissive rule and then leverage TFA to monitor the rule's traffic with the output being easily consumable is incredibly valuable.

We used FireMon as a firewall analyzer of internal and external perimeters. We were able to gather relevant tcpdumps instead of looking directly in the firewall. This is very useful for executive managements, we can just provide them read only access and if someone in our organization asked them they can directly check for any network traffic on their own.

1. We used FireMon mainly on reviewing firewall policies that are high risk or that are not being used in the network anymore. We are able to configure several thresholds wherein once there are no hit counts for atleast 60 days (2 months) there will be an alert to us administrators. 2. We also use several dashboards that are shared to executive personnel for them to see what is going on in our internal and external perimeters.

We use FireMon for compliance purposes. We use it to generate reports whenever a change is made to the Firewall. We can see who pushed policy in Checkpoint, what Change# it is associated with, and what was actually done compared to what the change ticket stated.

When working correctly, it is great for audit purposes when you need to show when changes were made, what was made, who made them, and with what change. When the reports aren't working, you have to dig up all this information manually. Back in version 7, you were able to drill down in the reports that provided a very granular detailed information, now the newer version doesn't allow for this.

We are a product distributor of Firemon, we were able to sell Firemon to some of our customers, from telecoms, banks and call centers. I am the one providing the walkthrough and guide the customers on how to integrate the FireMon security manager to the Firewall devices. FireMon addresses a lot of difficulties that the firewall administrator faces, a lot of firewall devices are not optimized. FireMon can help a lot on this department. Though FireMon has other add on modules from the security manager. I did not see an aggressive positioning of the other modules.

Firewall rules clean up and optimisation.

We have used FireMon for our MSS clients, including managed firewalls from a different vendor. It's mainly used to manage firewalls, policy review and integrate into the CAB approval process, it went well and provided an easy solution for us and accurate report to clients. Friendly user interfaces are easy to use and system was stable all the time.

Friendly user interfaces, supports API. Plus, FireMon provided best technical support for any issue we had. We also benefitted from training by FireMon which helped us fully using the feature it provided to better manage our clients.

We have customers that have this product and we help them with the installation. For one of them we have a managed service, and it means we manage the tool with tasks like doing firmware upgrades, adding/deleting devices and helping them with reports and other configurations. It is also used for training the customer’s users to and understand the reports and other features FireMon Security Manager has.

Appropriate:
- Within complex networks with devices from different vendors
- Companies merging with other companies

I am a network security engineer for a large ISP and we recently implemented FireMon in our network to help manage our firewalls. We are a growing company and this product helps us consolidate our firewalls to give us a better understanding of how they are being used and how often.

We were getting to migrate from one firewall to another and so we went in and removed all the unused rules and redundant rules. By doing this, it made the migration period much shorter and we knew that the rules that we migrating were accurate.

FireMon is only being used for firewall configuration monitoring purposes. In other words, any changes on the firewall we would check on FireMon.

FireMon is decent in response to troubleshooting. They did an excellent job with assisting with any upgrade of the device from certain versions.

FireMon Security Manager is being used within my organization for several purposes. I specifically utilize FireMon 8 in order to gain long-term information about the traffic hitting the firewalls within the network. The reports that I'm able to run using FireMon 8 give allow me to better analyze the firewalls in order to remediate rules within the firewalls.

FireMon Security Manager is well suited for anyone who is working within security, remediation, or architecture for their company's network. FireMon's report library enables the user to run reports in order to analyse, change, check compliance and health check, and usage for environment. It quickly identifies rules that can be/need to be cleaned up within the environment, particularly rules that are disabled or need description.