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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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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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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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Clinical Systems Engineer So Cal Regional Office at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 27, 2016

Vendor agnostic when it comes to integrating with other product.

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Manager Security Solutions at Retail/Food Business

Jun 6, 2018

The most valuable features are Policy Optimizer and Firewall Manager for different brands of firewall.

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Network Security Engineer- Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 30, 2019

It provides us with a single pane of glass for our on-prem environment, to see configuration. We have not implemented into the cloud yet. We can search for an object group and see where it lives on any firewall in the enterprise or find security rules, no matter what firewall they're on.

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Orlando Paulino

Information Security Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 9, 2019

The Security Manager part of FireMon... gives me an eye on everything that's out there, everything that I cannot see. Because I'm not a network admin, I cannot go to a firewall itself, but at least I have FireMon so that I can go in and view everything that I want to view. And I can eliminate whatever I see that is wrong,

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DJ

Security Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2019

The most valuable feature is the reporting capability because everything that we do is a result of our being able to query a report, based on our environment and our PCI compliance efforts.

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Info Assurance Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 11, 2019

It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance.

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CG

IT Security Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 23, 2019

It is the single place where we go to review all of our firewall changes. The solution makes it easier for us to track all the changes made. It is a central place where we can look at all the firewall rules, because we have three different firewall vendors. It save us time and creates efficiencies by looking at the general picture.

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FireMon Security Manager Cons review quotes

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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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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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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Clinical Systems Engineer So Cal Regional Office at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 27, 2016

A phone app would be nice. This is the reason why it is not perfect yet.

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Manager Security Solutions at Retail/Food Business

Jun 6, 2018

We are looking for more integration with SIEM and other tools.

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Network Security Engineer- Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 30, 2019

Some of the core functionality in our environment doesn't seem to work. We will get buggy code releases. They need to work on their Q&A of every code release.

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Orlando Paulino

Information Security Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 9, 2019

We're working on implementing FireMon with our ticketing system service now. Having that would be an improvement.

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DJ

Security Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2019

The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious... Imagine you have a list of 200 devices, and you can grade each of those devices as either green, yellow, or red. However, there might be three different reasons for you to go to red, or eight different reasons to go to yellow, and all of those things could be combined... Out of all those categories, I only find one or two of them that are, perhaps, pertinent.

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Info Assurance Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 11, 2019

The AWS integration is still not mature for us to use. It is just not ready for our use case for AWS connectivity. Therefore, it does not provide us with a single pane of glass for our cloud environments, because we can't manage our cloud environment with the tool.

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CG

IT Security Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 23, 2019

The stability has been fairly decent, but there have been a few issues. My coworker has had some issues in the past where he has had to work with support.

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