We used FireMon Asset Manager only for the firewalls. It could not always discover, so we had to go in and add it manually. The discovery was not always consistent. At times it worked, and at times it did not work. It was 50/50. The discovery process could be improved. If incorrect credentials are entered, it should give an error message. That would make our work easy rather than having to troubleshoot why the issue is occurring. Also, the SQL queries at times did not work, so we had to get support from FireMon. Everything else is good.
It is not very good at monitoring the Check Point firewall, but it works very well with other firewalls such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA. Similarly, it works well with or supports certain network switches, but there are some that it does not support. I am not sure if FireMon Asset Manager supports the CVN and SDN environments. I am also not sure if it supports a VDI desktop environment. The support for these environments would be good. There should also be better handling of VPN connections.
Director of Delivery for IT and Cybersecurity at IMRI
Real User
Top 20
2024-05-29T19:59:00Z
May 29, 2024
FireMon Asset Manager has improved its ability to gather information directly from devices, complementing its existing passive data collection. While passive discovery remains important, active retrieval of asset details would be valuable, and this functionality is starting to be implemented, as I've observed in recent updates but it is not fully there yet.
FireMon Asset Manager provides real-time cyber situational awareness for discovering and monitoring the entire network infrastructure, using advanced behavioral detection techniques to alert security teams when suspicious activities or compliance violations are detected.
We used FireMon Asset Manager only for the firewalls. It could not always discover, so we had to go in and add it manually. The discovery was not always consistent. At times it worked, and at times it did not work. It was 50/50. The discovery process could be improved. If incorrect credentials are entered, it should give an error message. That would make our work easy rather than having to troubleshoot why the issue is occurring. Also, the SQL queries at times did not work, so we had to get support from FireMon. Everything else is good.
It is not very good at monitoring the Check Point firewall, but it works very well with other firewalls such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA. Similarly, it works well with or supports certain network switches, but there are some that it does not support. I am not sure if FireMon Asset Manager supports the CVN and SDN environments. I am also not sure if it supports a VDI desktop environment. The support for these environments would be good. There should also be better handling of VPN connections.
FireMon Asset Manager has improved its ability to gather information directly from devices, complementing its existing passive data collection. While passive discovery remains important, active retrieval of asset details would be valuable, and this functionality is starting to be implemented, as I've observed in recent updates but it is not fully there yet.