ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Review

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer comes with a range of benefits that helps ensure firewall optimization and security. These are derived from the vast number of features that the platform offers. Here are some of them:

Firewall Compliance

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is able to automate system compliance audits by coming up with reports on regulations like ISO 27001, SANS, PCI-DSS AND NERC-CIP. Changes in firewall rules are continuously monitored with reports instantly generated, further reinforcing security. All compliance requirements status are flagged as firewall rules, address translations, objects, ACLs, and interfaces, among other configurations relevant to network traffic control are reviewed. False positive filtering criteria for audit reports are defined by users, helping them keep up with internal security rules.

Firewall Policy Monitoring

The solution helps users control traffic between the Internet and LAN, allowing them to efficiently manage and monitor firewall rules, ensuring the smooth flow of traffic while blocking traffic that are deemed anomalous or potentially harmful. Aside from this, the system generates an overview report that gives users visibility into traffic rules.

Firewall Bandwidth/Network Security Reports

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer helps you understand network security better and analyze bandwidth using reports based on firewall logs. These include essential firewall reports, traffic details reports, security reports, trends reports, and device management reports.

Bandwidth Monitoring

With the platform, managed security service providers and network administrators can monitor their Internet traffic in near real time. It collects and analyzes firewall traffic data so that you can gather traffic details across every firewall. Live firewall traffic reports are generated by the system, which it displays in table and graph formats. They are automatically updated, detailing both incoming and outgoing traffic and are available for the last year, 30 days, 7 days and 24 hours. Minimum, maximum and average speed are also reflected in the graph.

Alerts and Notifications

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer automatically sends notifications to administrators in the event of security breaches or unusual traffic. These alerts come in the form of email, SMS or a tool that can initiate other action. Alerts for bandwidth users are also sent out in real time when bandwidth usage crosses a certain threshold. This allows for the identification of the sources of bandwidth usage. Similarly, alerts for each device can be set up using the system with users setting the criteria for alert triggering.

Managed Firewall Services

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer allows managed security service providers to manage their customers’ firewalls, all from a single console. Collection, analysis, generation and archiving reports for customer firewalls is possible with the tool, enabling users to measure bandwidth use, detect anomalies and audit traffic, among others. User-specific firewall views are used to provide access-based control, allowing administrators to assign users to their firewalls.

Value-Added Features

The software offers a variety of value-added functionalities, which can provide added benefits to users. A Diagnose Live Connections feature sees to it that all live connections going in and out of the firewall are captured and analyzed. The system is able to display up to 1,000 random connections. The display can be tweaked using a filter criteria, which also allows for the limitation of the number of connections displayed.