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OPSEC Partners

Algorithmic Security Inc.

Product Version Certified: AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer for the Enterprise v3.5, AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer for Auditors v3.5
Certified for use with: NGX with Application Intelligence

Product Description: The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (FA) is the industry's first and only comprehensive firewall Policy Analyzer. FA is favored by security auditors and network operations personnel alike because it works entirely offline with no packet generation on your network and presents no risk to your production systems. By actually calculating every single packet that your firewall could encounter (every source, every destination, every protocol and every port #) Firewall Analyzer acts like an external auditor, identifying any and all firewall rules that may represent security holes, ranking the risks and offering you detailed guidance about how to fix them. FA identifies unused and expired rules and objects to help you tune your firewall policy for the highest security and performance. Firewall Analyzer is an essential tool to help you comply with SOX and other demanding regulatory requirements.
 
Key Features and Benefits
OPSEC Integration
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Company Description: AlgoSec develops innovative software solutions for management of complex network security. AlgoSec is the pioneer and market leader of offline Firewall Policy Analysis . The AlgoSec flagship product, Firewall Analyzer (FA), is in use by major corporations and security consultants worldwide. Four patents in process protect Algosec's technological innovations. The AlgoSec business motto is that customer satisfaction drives prosperity.
 
Key Features and Benefits
  1. Identify and Remediate existing rule-based risks: The FA generates a complete firewall policy analysis report. It describes the risks related to the existing firewall rules according to their importance, and in three mouse clicks guides you to the specific firewall rule that needs to be modified to remove this risk.

  2. Improved Firewall Change Management Process: Use FA's built-in "What If" analysis to ensure that no hidden risks are introduced in policy changes - before making changes to your firewall policy. Integrate FA into your change management process in order to simultaneously support faster response to change requests and enhance your overall security.

  3. Locate and fix human errors before damage occurs: Every new risk is highlighted so that it can be fixed quickly.

  4. Identify Unused Rules and Host Groups: Be advised about rules and host groups that are not being used to make your firewall policy more efficient.

  5. Comprehensive Analysis: FA analyzes every possible type of packet that the firewall may ever encounter. The number of theoretical combinations is over 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

  6. No false positives: FA includes a complete customization suite, providing you with the ability to eliminate risk items from reports that are irrelevant to your environment.

  7. Handle a large number of firewalls: FA analyzes Checkpoint Provider-1, Checkpoint Firewall-1, and other leading security products in the enterprise market.

  8. Scheduling Support: Configure FA to run automatically on a scheduled basis or use the ad hoc analysis as required.

  9. Email Alerts: FA can scan all your firewall policies continuously, and upon identification of a newly installed policy, analyze it and notify you automatically. FA may also be configured to provide email notification to a list of supported users upon predefined triggers in report output.

  10. Comply with SOX and other regulatory requirements: FA feature helps you comply with corporate and regulatory requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Basel II Capital Accord, HIPPA, BS 7799 / ISO 17799, FISMA, Payment Card Security Standard PCIDS).
OPSEC Integration
The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (FA) automatically and non-intrusively analyzes a firewall's policy. It identifies rules that cause security holes and offers detailed guidance about how to close them. OPSEC is leveraged for the automatic retrieval of the firewall's routing table from the firewall module without the need to collect it manually. This information is needed for the analysis of the firewall.
 
Additional Information

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