FireMon Security Manager ROI

JeffReese - PeerSpot reviewer
Network / Security Design and Installation Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our ROI is the FTEs a year that we're saving. The solution is not even close to the cost of an employee. It might cost that employee's health benefits. We're saving double the amount of money we would pay a person.

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Elden Torres - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We do change management every week. In a given week, we get at least a dozen email alerts about changes. FireMon saves us time in accurately creating, approving, and deploying firewall policy rules.

The solution saves us time in accurately changing firewall policy rules with 12 alerts per week. It gives us a graphical view, which is always helpful.

FireMon has decreased errors and misconfigurations that increased risk in our environment. There have been times that the solution found that we are using "any any" on some firewall rules. It was unintentional, and the solution was able to catch it and we fixed it right away.

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JE
IT Security Admin at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have absolutely seen ROI. We are not tying ROI to automation, time saved, nor reduced headcount. Our return on investment has been primarily in the projects that we are able to accomplish with FireMon. For example, last quarter, our team completed 23 projects with FireMon, and they were each tied to a future-oriented process. For all the projects that my team accomplished, we created FireMon controls and reports as well as a cleanup on the firewalls. We also created automation around the FireMon API so these processes and reports are happening automatically in terms of scheduled reporting and automatic ticket requests into our ticket management system. FireMon's return on investment is due to the massive improvements that we have made on firewall management and firewall hygiene.

FireMon decreases errors and misconfigurations by 10% that increase risk in our environment. That has to do a lot with the change reporting that is in place, but also with the built-in controls and custom controls that we have made. Those all decrease the errors that people naturally make on a day-to-day basis for firewall administration.

On an average day, we receive a lot of requests to approve firewall changes, changes to the firewall, and additions to rules. On any given day, we have a request that was not given to us well, e.g., where they have different IPs that are needed or they don't give the right service request. Whenever FireMon gives us a report, we are able to go back through it and correct those changes to make them more accurate.

Whenever we are getting a request where the traffic could hit multiple firewalls, FireMon fact checks us to make sure we are putting the rule in the correct firewall.

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BK
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We haven't calculated ROI but the return when it comes to value is getting there. FireMon doesn't scale well enough with the complexity of our Palo Alto environment yet. I think the value will get there. We're at about the midway point when it comes to value. On a scale of one to 10, we're at about a four or five. On the simple firewalls, it works pretty well. On the complex firewalls, it kind of works, but there are a lot of exceptions that it doesn't know about or can't handle, and that causes us to have to backtrack into a lot of manual work.

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JP
Lead Network Specialist at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our ROI is that it saves time and helps us improve security. 

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DJ
Security Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Even if it wasn't financially related, I don't have the background where I could authoritatively speak to you about any specific ROI. I can say that I'm sure it's paid for itself several times over, but I would actually have to have seen what a calendar year was like before and after having the product.

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SG
Solution Architect at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

It's hard to quantify ROI with FireMon, but it's definitely valuable. How do you quantify a missed cyber security incident?

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OP
Information Security Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I'm not sure if FireMon has saved us money, but I know it has saved time in cleaning up the whole company and has helped reduce all that ugliness that we had.

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NS
Info Assurance Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not met a return on investment with this tool yet.

For the firewalls that we manage, it does help reduce our overall audit time.

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SW
Network Security Engineer- Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

In my opinion, we have seen ROI. We're able to share data that other groups need, by harvesting it out of FireMon, which is extremely powerful. Another group can look up their own NAT, for instance, even if they're not very savvy. It has helped reduce a lot of casework that was coming into our queue, that was along the lines of, "Hey, what NAT does this belong to?" 

Going back to the complex rules, it has literally prevented devices from falling over and dying. It's maintained uptime, which is invaluable when you're dealing with millions of customers connecting through one firewall.

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it_user586914 - PeerSpot reviewer
Conseiller sécurité des TI at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm not an accountant !!

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March 2024
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