Firewall Rule Optimization
One of the crucial things for firewall maintenance and management is rule optimization.
It must be done regularly to be compliant with the regulations.
The purpose of a firewall is to block unauthorized access to a network while allowing authorized traffic to pass through. To achieve this goal, firewalls use rules that specify which traffic should be allowed and which should be blocked. Optimization is a fine-tuning activity on rules to increase security and performance.
This process may involve:
- Removing redundant or outdated rules,
- Consolidating rules,
- Reordering rules,
- Simplifying rules,
- Eliminating risky services,
- Making rules more specific
Firewall rule optimization is an ongoing process that requires regular review and updates to ensure that the firewall is providing optimal protection while allowing authorized traffic to pass through.
Opinnate makes optimization process to be an automatic process by which actions be taken on unused, shadowed, expired, disabled rules in an easy way. Apart from that, IP addresses belonging to decommissioned servers is a matter of a-minute cleaning activity.
It is also possible for IT Security teams to work in detail on other issues like reordering or consolidation via rule viewer.
Permissive rules and rules having risky services are also the items that can easily be worked on and take rapid actions. For permissive rule optimization industry’s best designed rule usage architecture is used to reduce server resource and disk size consumption.
Choose product package
matching your needs
Lite Package
Basic package that makes policy analysis and reporting easy
- Analysis
- Audit
- Reporting
Standard Package
The package that also makes rule clean-up and optimization automatically.
- Analysis
- Audit
- Reporting
- Optimization
Enterprise Package
End-to-end needs on policy management. From analysis to zero-touch automation.
- Analysis
- Audit
- Reporting
- Optimization
- Automation
Why Opinnate?
What are the differences?
- All-in-one policy management
- No need for a management product from any firewall vendor
- More use case scenarios for real needs
- Short deployment and enablement
Why are these good for you?
- Lower TCO
- A comprehensive but simpler-to-use solution
- Less dependency to tools (Firewall management consoles, firewall analyzer)
- Less resource usage