ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer License
Firewall Analyzer is an agentless log analysis and configuration management software. This licensed tool analyzes firewall logs and generates real-time alert notifications, security and bandwidth reports. This helpful solution is vendor independent software and supports more than 50 firewall vendors. It also empowers administrators by providing comprehensive reports on the security events and in turn they can take steps to mitigate security.
Checking firewall logs
The need for a comprehensive firewall log analysis application
Deploying the necessary security tools (firewall and other end-security devices) alone will not secure your network, but the security data of the tools should be analyzed and the extracted security information reported or alerted to ensure that the network is secured. Therefore, analysis of firewall syslogs and other security device logs is vital to network security. Analyzing the firewall logs reveals a lot of information about security threat attempts at the edge of the network and the nature of traffic to and from the firewall.
The analyzed firewall records information, provides real-time information to administrators about security threat attempts, and allows them to quickly initiate remediation actions. This allows you to plan your bandwidth needs based on bandwidth usage across firewalls. Firewall log monitoring plays an important role in business risk assessment. Analyzing firewall traffic logs is critical to understanding network and bandwidth usage. Firewall Analyzer, a firewall monitoring tool, provides many features that help collect, analyze and report firewall logs.
Firewall Analyzer acts as firewall log management software and supports the analysis of the following firewall logs and security device logs:
- Fortigate
- NetScreen
- SonicWALL
- Check Point
- CyberGuard
- WatchGuard
- Microsoft ISA
- Cisco PIX Device
- Cisco ASA Device
- and many others
Automatic firewall detection
Just configure the firewall to export the logs to the Firewall Analyzer. Firewalls are then automatically detected and reports are generated instantly in this intelligent firewall log analysis tool. For all firewalls that support exporting logs in WELF format, this is the best configuration option.
Import the firewall logs
In the case of proxy servers and Squid firewalls that do not export logs in an acceptable format, you can import firewall logs or proxy log files directly into the Firewall Analyzer (Firewall Log Viewer) and generate related reports.
Checkpoint specific settings
The licensed ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer allows you to add LEA servers to establish connections and retrieve logs from Check Point firewalls. With this firewall log analyzer, you can add as many LEA servers as you want and configure authenticated or unauthenticated connections to get firewall logs.
Integrated syslog server
Firewall Analyzer comes with a syslog server that listens to exported firewall log files on defined listening ports. You can add more listening ports to this syslog server to collect logs from different firewalls. The syslog server is part of Firewall Analyzer and does not require separate installation.
Export and import report and alert profiles
This solution and its licenses makes it easy to save report and alert profiles. You can export and save profiles. You can import profiles to retrieve the profiles. This is useful in an emergency, such as when moving the server to another machine, etc. You can also save the exported profile file.
Firewall Analysis
Firewall analysis can be divided into two categories. One is the behavior of the firewall captured in the security and event logs. The other is firewall administration captured in configurations, policies and rules files.
Analyze security and traffic logs
The firewall log analysis provides detailed information on security threats and traffic behavior.
In-depth analysis of firewall security logs provides critical network information about security breach attempts and attacks such as viruses, trojans, denial of service, etc. These network security threats pose a serious risk to critical network resources. Using firewall security log reports, security administrators can perform security log analysis, view network threat scenarios, and plan their strategy to protect against these threats.
Traffic log analysis provides valuable insight into bandwidth usage, employee Internet usage, bandwidth-intensive websites, and interface-related traffic. Using firewall traffic analysis reports, network/security administrators should monitor fair bandwidth usage for business purposes and plan for future bandwidth capacity needs.
Firewall Analyzer license acts as a full-featured firewall log analyzer, collecting system logs generated by firewalls and generating reports that allow security administrators to perform firewall log analysis.
Analyze firewall configurations, policies and rules
Firewall configuration analysis provides information to optimize firewall performance. A deeper analysis of policies/rules provides insight into how often rules are used or not used. This information can be used by the security/network administrators to know the adequacy of the rules, the need for a particular rule, the use of the rule leading to the implementation of the security policy. Using the firewall scan rule/policy reports, the administrator can decide to remove unused rules, edit moderately used rules, and add new rules to meet the policy requirements. security.
Firewall configuration analysis provides information about misconfigurations, suboptimal configurations, and more. With this information, the administrator can correct/tune the configurations for optimal firewall performance.
Therefore, this firewall log analysis tool provides CLI-based configuration monitoring and supports Telnet, SSH, and SCP protocols for security and traffic log analysis. The Firewall Analyzer tool also helps security administrators track policy changes, optimize firewall performance, and meet compliance standards.
Virtual firewall management
Why Virtual Firewall?
The hosted environment is becoming more and more virtual by the day. The Firewalls can therefore not be left behind. Every customer of a service provider needs both security and privacy for the hosted server/service. Since the service provider serves a number of customers, it is a multi-tenant environment. In such an environment, the security and privacy of an individual customer must not be compromised.
A separate firewall must be assigned to each customer of the service provider. If the number of customers continues to grow, the service provider can no longer add a large number of firewall hardware. The provider must therefore weigh. Without adding a large amount of firewall hardware, the service provider must ensure the security and privacy of the client’s servers and services. In such a situation, the virtual firewall comes in handy. Multiple virtual firewalls can be hosted in a basic physical firewall appliance. These virtual firewalls are mutually exclusive and provide the same level of security as the base firewall. Service providers have started to customize these virtual firewalls in a big way.
