Virtual Firewall Management

Why Virtual Firewall?

The hosted environment is increasingly getting virtual day by day. So the Firewalls cannot lag behind. Every customer of a service provider need security as well as privacy for the hosted server / service. Since the service provider caters to a number of customers it is multi-tenant environment. In such an environment, security and privacy of an individual customer cannot be compromised. Every service provider customer requires a separate Firewall to be allocated. If the number of customers keep growing, the service provider cannot go on adding heaps of Firewall hardware. Hence, the service provider has to strike a balance. Without adding huge amount of Firewall hardware, the service provider has to ensure the security and privacy of the customer servers and services. In such a situation, Virtual Firewall comes handy. In one base physical Firewall device, multiple virtual Firewalls can be hosted. These virtual Firewalls are mutually exclusive and assures the same level of security as the base Firewall. Service Providers started adapting these virtual Firewalls in a big way.

How Firewall Analyzer addresses the Virtual Firewall management requirement?

The next harder task for the service provider is to find an appropriate monitoring solution, which has to again assure the privacy requirements in a multi-tenant environment. This is where the Firewall Analyzer comes in to play. Firewall Analyzer supports the logs from Virtual Firewalls. Adding this support with user based client view, empowers the service provider with mutually exclusive, individual Firewall reports and alerts to the customers. This way the service provider meets the requirements of the customers in a fool proof manner effectively.

Firewall Analyzer now supports logs from the Virtual Firewalls (context / vdom) present in the Cisco, FortiGate, and Check Point devices. There is no special configuration required. The application automatically recognizes the logs originating from the Virtual Firewalls. Each Virtual Firewall is treated as a separate device. Hence, the reports, alerts, etc., are generated separately.

This facility is best suitable for enterprises and MSPs / MSSPs where multi-vendor, multi-tenancy need to be catered for in offering virtual firewall service for each of the vendors exclusively.

 

 

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Firewall Reports

Get a slew of security and traffic reports to asses the network security posture. Analyze the reports and take measures to prevent future security incidents. Monitor the Internet usage of enterprise users.

Firewall Compliance Management

Integrated compliance management system automates your firewall compliance audits. Ready made reports available for the major regulatory mandates such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, NERC-CIP, and SANS.

Firewall Rule Management

Manage your firewall rules for optimum performance. Anomaly free, properly ordered rules make your firewall secured. Audit the firewall security and manage the rule/config changes to strengthen the security.  

Real-time Bandwidth Monitoring

With live bandwidth monitoring, you can identify the abnormal sudden shhot up of bandwidth use. Take remedial measures to contain the sudden surge in bandwidth consumption.

Firewall Alerts

Take instant remedial actions, when you get notified in real-time for network security incidents. Check and restrict Internet usage if banwidth exceeds specified threshold.

Manage Firewall Service

MSSPs can host multiple tenants, with exclusive segmented and secured access to their respective data. Scalable to address their needs. Manages firewalls deployed around the globe.

 

 

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