RE: Firewalls management tools

http://algosec.com/Products/FA/



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From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On 
Behalf Of firewalls@securityfocus.com
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:17 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Firewalls management tools

Hi!
Working on multiple firewalls equipments (checkpoint / Fortinet / 
Netscreen...), I have identified two main subjects to improve our management 
tasks:
-    Improving firewall rules set on the complete firewall pool;
-    Mapping network flows :
        Being able to list all (authorised) flows between two hosts or subnets;
        Being able to quickly find a firewall with a deny rule on an 
operational flow;
-    Track and control device configuration

In order to reach our goal, I have identified the following (-commercial-) 
products:
- Firewall Analyser (Algosec)
- Skybox assure
- Firemon from secure Passage
- SecureTrack from Tufin
- RedSeal SRM (more wide product but it seems to respond to my primary purpose)
- Firewall manager from Solsoft.

=> Does anyone have a first experience on this kind of product?
=> Do you think it would be better to use several firewall management solutions 
from each specific vendor?


Thank You!