Firewall Audit

Changes happen rapidly in today's fast-paced IT environments and every day, businesses have new requirements for access and connectivity. As a result, firewall policies grow in number and complexity. Firewalls often have hundreds, if not thousands, of rules that have accumulated over time, leading to redundant, irrelevant or even contradictory policies that impact firewall performance and put you at risk.

The Firewall Audit and Optimization upgrade provides recurring, in-depth analysis of firewall policies to remove policy gaps and ensure optimum rulebase performance. In addition to identifying policy gaps that leave your organization exposed, the Firewall Audit and Optimization service delivers automated firewall audit reports and helps you reduce unnecessary rule complexity. You also receive quarterly in-depth review and policy recommendations from Dell SecureWorks firewall experts, who can also implement the changes to your firewall to improve your security posture.

Firewall Audit and Optimization helps you:

Eliminate firewall policy gaps and exposures
Dell SecureWorks' Firewall Audit and Optimization performs in-depth analysis of your firewall policies, identifying gaps that leave your network exposed and providing detailed recommendations for minimizing your risk. As part of our Firewall Management services, our security experts can implement recommended policy changes to your firewall infrastructure to improve your security posture.

Improve firewall efficiency and reduce complexity
The Firewall Audit and Optimization service finds rules that are unnecessary or contradictory, which can significantly degrade firewall performance. Removing unused rules and optimizing the rulebase improves firewall efficiency. Recurring policy cleanup also improves your ability to upgrade easily to new firewall technologies knowing that the existing rulebase is sound and efficient.

Satisfy compliance requirements for rule set review
Regulatory mandates and standards such as PCI require periodic review of firewall configurations and access policies. Specifically, PCI DSS Requirement 1.1.6 requires review of firewall and router rule sets at least every six months. By performing in-depth analysis of firewall policies, the Firewall Audit and Optimization service satisfies these compliance requirements in an automated fashion that reduces your compliance burden.

Get a complete view of your firewall policies
The Firewall Audit and Optimization service gives you a full picture of your firewall rulesets with automated reporting that details firewall changes and rule usage as well as recommendations for cleanup. Using the reports, you can easily understand your firewall performance and impact of access policies.

Firewall Audit and Optimization includes:

• Recurring, in-depth analysis of firewall policies
• Identification of policy gaps and exposures
• Automated firewall audit reports
• Quarterly expert review and policy recommendations
• Removal of unnecessary rules
• Implementation of accepted policy changes