FireMon Security Manager Primary Use Case
We're an MSSP, so we put FireMon on our customer sites to monitor their security devices.
View full review »We use it to keep track of our firewall devices, as an inventory database and a collection of the configuration. It also draws out the map of our network, including non-firewall devices.
We are using the latest version of the solution.
View full review »We have a two-server system for web applications, and we utilize FireMon to manage our Palo Alto firewalls. We log in to FireMon for reporting and creating rules. Currently, I am working on a project that involves using FireMon to clean up some of our open rules.
FireMon is deployed on-premises.
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FireMon Security Manager
April 2024
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Jideofor Okenwa
IT Manager for Networks and Cloud Infrastructure at a government with 10,001+ employees
We use FireMon for security management, to manage our security infrastructure. We also use it to do PCI compliance and to manage personal data and information related to the organization, and to prevent data loss. In addition, we use the admin console for firewall management, including firewall rules and to decommission firewalls when they are not in use. We use it to monitor our primary corporate DR firewalls as well.
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reviewer1727610
Network Security Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
There are different groups within our organization that are plugging their routers into the FireMon solution. They have central monitoring and also a central repository, which allows them to look at all of the rule sets.
Basically, there are a few core sites that we plug into and we use FireMon to clean up the firewalls and help with any troubleshooting that comes up. It helps because it provides visibility into everything.
We are only using the Security Manager and we don't have any auditing on that.
When a rule comes in, we audit whether the rule is placed in the correct order and if it matches the request that came in. We do that after the fact.
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reviewer1658859
Network Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
I am a contractor and I work on security. At this company, we primarily use FireMon for firewall rule analysis and as part of our firewall rule certification process.
Our environment is on-premises using VM hosts.
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reviewer2244066
Security Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
We have a two-server system, application and web, and we're using FireMon for our Palo Alto firewalls and their logs, to help us create rules.
We're working on cleaning up our rules using FireMon as well, because we have a lot of live, open rules.
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reviewer1643730
IT Security Admin at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the Security Manager module. We use it to report and audit firewall changes. We also use it to track the hygiene of our firewalls in addition to the changes made to them. Since it normalizes the firewall config, we are able to do custom searches and make custom controls to build out those audits and reports, making sure that we are applying firewall rules correctly. There are a lot of built-in reports as well, which help us to identify rules and objects that are being used.
We are an enterprise environment. We are definitely not the largest of FireMon's customers, deployment-wise.
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reviewer942852
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for firewall management and security management, firewall health, and processing firewall change requests.
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Jeff Plotkin
Lead Network Specialist at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have a single server and we're a small group. We use FireMon to track all of our firewall rule changes.
The security section lets you see where your unused rules are and it lets us go in there, optimize it, and make the firewall more secure.
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Alejandro Gallo
Technical Account Manager at Axity de Colombia
We are using FireMon Policy Planner because we have a lot of tickets every day, and we are trying to automate the resolution for each ticket. This is our primary use case.
We are not specifically using FireMon for compliance management at this point. However, we will be looking at using more of the features within the next year.
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Daniel James
Security Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We use FireMon for compliance reporting. Also, because it provides a roadmap for us to start doing workflow automation - not to be confused with other forms of automation that occur in the firewall realm - we use it to see the processes and procedures that we can automate and enforce. These include approval processes, review processes, and pre- and post-implementation validation.
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reviewer1954185
Solution Architect at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
We use it to capture logs and events from our enterprise firewalls, and we also collect configurations from those firewalls. Our main use case is for cleanup and hygiene of those firewalls, to make sure that all the rules that allow our systems to talk to each other are current and being used. And if they're not, then we clean those rules up.
We use it more on the reporting and logging side, rather than for actually making changes to our firewalls.
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reviewer2169984
Management Trainee at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use FireMon for monitoring, reporting, and logging purposes.
View full review »We have multiple use cases but most of our use of Firemon is around our security focus. We use it to make sure that bad things don't happen within the infrastructure.
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Orlando Paulino
Information Security Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it to go through unused rules, for cleaning up stuff. We have a bi-weekly meeting where we go through firewalls and look for any unused rules or any rules that are redundant and any high ports that are being used that we're not supposed to use.
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InfoAssu7204
Info Assurance Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case is optimizing firewall rules.
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NetworkSad34
Network Security Engineer- Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for firewall cleanup, redundant rule removal, and unused rule removal.
We are using the solution to identify anything that might have overly permissive rules or things outside of PCI compliance. We use it to proactively find those kinds of issues. There's more we could be doing with it for sure, we just haven't had the time yet.
We currently have it covering every single firewall we have, which is a lot. There are potential plans to add routers and switches into it again, or even start adding in hybrid cloud solutions, things like that, that we won't be able to see. Honestly, we won't have a single pane of glass without FireMon, so we do have intentions of deploying it at a larger scale, and actually turning on some of those features which we don't use today.
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reviewer1703760
Security Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We only have security management.
It was deployed on-prem. It used to be on the hardware, and there used to be an appliance, but we have switched to a virtual server. We are now on a VM.
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reviewer1734798
Network Administrator at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We were excited in the beginning about this solution because we have multiple firewalls in different regions, and so many rules. We wanted to find a solution that could organize our firewalls and remove the unused rules and redundant rules.
We use FireMon Security Manager. We don't use the Policy Planner or Policy Optimizer. We don't have a license for them. We started with a limited license and said, "If things go well with this, we'll go to the next step."
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reviewer1740165
GISA at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
We use Security Manager for firewall changes, monitoring, and audits.
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Pranav Gupta
Asst. Manager Finance at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We act as a business partner for our clients. We're implementors. Each client has a different use case.
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Chris Goodrich
IT Security Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case is for compliance and monitoring of firewall changes. This solution allows us to secure our firewalls.
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reviewer1740165
GISA at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Our main use case is the monitoring of changes on our firewalls. Another of our use cases is keeping firewall rules in good shape by doing regular rule reviews, using FireMon's built-in categories for rules and even deploying our own. Additionally, we used FireMon when we did internal firewall migration, meaning we were switching to a new generation of firewalls.
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Joao Manso
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are resellers. All of our clients are enterprise companies.
View full review »Optimizing and cleaning firewall rules and objects to maintain the security of the firewall and other devices.
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FireMon Security Manager
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about FireMon Security Manager. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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