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FireMon Security Manager pros and cons

Vendor: FireMon

4.1 out of 5

58 reviews
88% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

FireMon Security Manager excels in firewall auditing, rule analysis, and compliance management, aiding in error reduction across brands. Policy Optimizer and Firewall Manager enhance integration with SASE for seamless policy implementation but face challenges in SIEM integration and AWS maturity. Despite buggy releases and support delays, it offers detailed tracking and alerts. Migration complexity and limited reporting are concerns, though features streamline rule management.

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PROS

FireMon Security Manager excels in firewall auditing, rule traffic analysis, traffic flow discovery, and detecting hidden or shadow rules across multiple firewalls and brands.

Policy Optimizer and Firewall Manager features are highly valued for managing different brands of firewalls and ensuring compliance without manual searching.

FireMon Security Manager aids in reducing errors and misconfigurations, enhancing compliance management by efficiently managing firewall rule changes and use of historical logs.

Integration with SASE capabilities allows for extended security policy management, establishing consistent rules across various platforms and enhancing rule accuracy.

Through real-time compliance management, FireMon Security Manager provides detailed change tracking, timestamped configuration comparisons, and email alerts, improving overall security posture and reducing manual effort.

CONS

Migration for 7.x customers is an involved process requiring significant time and effort to restore the environment to its previous state.

Integration with SIEM and other tools is needed, and current AWS integration lacks maturity for effective cloud environment management.

Buggy code releases and stability issues affect core functionality, with inadequate Q&A of code releases.

FireMon has limitations in policy management and reporting, requiring a single user account workaround for sharing reports within the platform.

The support response time needs improvement, and size-related issues with device scaling can cause processing lag.

FireMon Security Manager Pros review quotes

Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 19, 2015

Using this product allows firewall administrators to quickly find a problem with their firewall configurations.

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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 23, 2016

FireMon helped to decrease the workload on risk analysis and also firewall rulebase review time by 50%, at least due to its very elaborate and easy to use filters.

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Senior Network Security Engineer at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 26, 2016

Firewall auditing is very important. We also use the solution for rule traffic analysis, traffic flow discovery and hidden/shadow rules within over 100 firewalls spanning five different brands.

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Information Security Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 5, 2016

FireMon allows us to monitor and assess our network, giving continuous visibility into and control over firewall infrastructure, network security policies and underlying IT risk.

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Regional Manager Enterprise Data Infrastructure and Information Security at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Aug 1, 2016

The product is extremely helpful in policy analysis and improvement.

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Systems Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Aug 16, 2016

We now have clear visibility of our firewall, clear auditing of each firewall rule and changes, and of course, it helps us comply with governing bodies.

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Network Security Sr. Advisor at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 8, 2016

It’s very helpful during our firewall and network devices audit, and also beneficial when backup is required of network security devices.

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Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 7, 2016

For our company, it became an invaluable tool for auditing purposes.

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Information Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Aug 10, 2016

With the help of FireMon, we fine-tuned the rules and were able to save money for buying a new firewall.

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IT Security Consultant and Platform Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 2, 2017

Policy test, access path analysis, and change reports.

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Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 19, 2015

I believe their network maps have a lot of room for improvement.

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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 23, 2016

It’s been a constant need not only to analyze firewall rules and configurations but also implement them, for which FireMon has no support.

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Senior Network Security Engineer at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 26, 2016

One area for 7.x customers that needs improvement is the migration. It is an involved process so get ready to spend some time getting your environment back to the way it was.

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Information Security Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 5, 2016

The reporting needs some improvement to ensure that we are provided with consistent data accross each firewall device on the network.

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Regional Manager Enterprise Data Infrastructure and Information Security at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Aug 1, 2016

Although there is nothing 'wrong' in FireMon's support for other vendors, with the advent of SDN, NGFW, etc., I think FireMon will have to cover more layer 3 devices from different vendors.

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Systems Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Aug 16, 2016

They should add SMB firewall support and not only the big players.

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Network Security Sr. Advisor at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 8, 2016

Per-device license is little costly, but with such good features it’s understandable.

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Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 7, 2016

We monitored multiple firewalls. In the version we used, we had to check the changes made on each firewall individually.

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Information Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Aug 10, 2016

Although I have left the company, I heard that since the license renewal cost was too high, management decided not to renew it.

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IT Security Consultant and Platform Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 2, 2017

Policy Planner requirements section is good, but could use some improvement to allow flexibility to enter different types of requests (modifying an existing policy, object or service group, for example) in a structured task format that can be auto-verified.

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