Institution : MindTree
Industry : IT Consulting
Location : Warren, New Jersey
MindTree's client is a leading video software and services company that provides end-to-end media streaming and video asset management solutions to over 2,400 clients in 50+ countries including some of the world's biggest brands. This was achieved through a global infrastructure, consisting of regional R & D and data centers around the world, serving traditional, hybrid and private cloud.
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
"The firewall audit feature helped us remove unused rules and spot vulnerabilities due to misconfigurations"
Sathish,
Network Administrator,MindTree
It was imperative for the consulting team to quickly identify the cause of high bandwidth utilization and free up the bandwidth for data migration. One of the MindTree consultants was using ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer for monitoring bandwidth utilization, and realizing the need of the hour he immediately logged into Firewall Analyzer and unearthed the cause of high bandwidth utilization
Firewall Analyzer reported unusually high remote access VPN traffic, which was consuming the network bandwidth and slowing down the data migration. Firewall Analyzer also provided the consultant with important insights into specific users (with IP address) connected to the VPN and the amount of traffic consumed by them. Armed with this insight the team immediately curtailed the VPN sessions and allocated the freed-up bandwidth for the more important data migration activity.
Using Firewall Analyzer the network consultant team were able to perform firewall configuration audits, which helped them detect configuration issues, identify conflicting or unused rules, detect vulnerabilities and meet auditing and compliance mandates. "The firewall audit feature helped us remove unused rules and spot vulnerabilities due to misconfigurations",mentioned Sathish, Network Administrator, MindTree. They were very impressed by the user-specific firewall views, whereby the Administrator can assign users to the respective firewalls that are being monitored by Firewall Analyzer, and each individual user will have access to only his respective firewall details in the Firewall Analyzer.
It was imperative for the MindTree team to be notified about network anomalies in their clients' environment. Using the Alert / Anomaly detection feature of Firewall Analyzer the network administrator Sathish easily configured a variety of anomaly or threshold based notifications as per the nature of his client's network infrastructure. Sathish could manage all the triggered alerts from the centralized console of Firewall Analyzer whereby he could assign an alert to operator user, adda note or view notes by operator users, view the complete history of actions and notes on the alert, delete alerts which has been acted upon, etc.
The performance of the Firewall Analyzer in a high-capacity production environment impressed the MindTree consultants. The team was impressed with the ease of configuring Firewall Analyzer, to monitor the firewall and VPN activities, and the variety of canned reports that is provided. "I felt the configuration was simple and straight forward. Everything you need is right there. Firewall Analyzer reports are very granular! You don't usually get this level of depth in reporting" said Sathish, Network Administrator, MindTree