Use Cases for Network Security Policy Management
- Integration with help-desk systems
- Wide-range integration capabilities
- Periodic reporting via email
- Custom report generation
- Viewing all policies from a single console
- Firewall specific network topology view
- Having executive dashboards
- Alerting on new rule creation
- Expired rule alerting to the owner
- Having multi-tenancy features
- Management effectiveness
- CDDO audit controls
- NIST audit controls
- PCI audit controls
- ISO27001 audit controls
- Making risk assessment on firewalls
- Keep firewalls compliant
- Automating approval process
- Group-based policy change
- IP address decommisioning
- IP Access Cloning
- User Based Rule Creation
- IPS or logging profile activation on a rule
- Making policy change
- Tracking progress on policy hardening
- Making permissive rules more specific
- Disabling duplicated rules
- Analysis of policies on firewalls
- Viewing all policies from a single console
- Rule or path existence control
- Finding out unused rules
- Finding out expired rules
- Finding out disabled rules
- Finding out shadow rules
- Finding out duplicated rules
- Finding out permissive rules
- Policy hardening by rule cleaning
- Corporate policy check
- Disabling unused rules
- Disabling expired rules
- Cleaning disabled rules
- Disabling shadow rules