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News < Back Sarbanes Oxley : Technology : Security New Firewall Analyzer Product Suite August 1, 2008 03:15 PM AlgoSec Unveils ; Editions Allow Users To Match Product Features with Their Specific Needs
AlgoSec also announces today the addition of two highly anticipated features, including: • Automatically completed PCI-DSS and SOX compliance reports that work ‘out-of-the-box’ to help firewall administrators and auditors spend less time completing paperwork while meeting their critical reporting requirements. • A first of its kind algorithm that provides Intelligent Rule Re-Ordering recommendations based on historical rule usage statistics that aims to help users improve the efficiency of their firewall policies and reduce the CPU utilization of the firewall devices. “Not all users start with the same set of requirements,” said Dr. Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s co-founder and CTO. “Depending on their role in the organization, some users are looking for a better way to meet their compliance reporting and risk management activities, while others may be searching for ways to improve their existing operational and change management processes. In all cases, they’re looking for a solution that will automate many of the time consuming and error-prone aspects of firewall management and administration. AlgoSec’s new licensed editions were developed to help these users address their specific requirements while providing a platform that can be extended to support new functions or operational requirements as the need arises.” The newly launched AFA Product Suite offers four pre-bundled editions, including: • AFA Operations Management Edition: Built on the core AFA software module which is standard across all editions, it supports the daily operational activities and change management requirements of firewall administrators as well as maintaining detailed change history reports for all firewall configurations. • AFA Optimization Edition: This edition includes the full feature set of the Operations Management Edition and adds the optional Optimization software module which offers a rich set of reports and recommendations for improving the efficiency of the firewall configuration, including the new Intelligent Rule Re-Ordering algorithm. • AFA Risk Management Edition: This edition includes the full feature set of the Operations Management Edition and adds the optional Risk Management software module. Built on AlgoSec’s comprehensive knowledge-base of Industry Best Practices for firewall configurations, it allows users to quickly assess the security posture of their firewall configurations and ensure all devices meet their specific security controls. It also includes the automatically completed PCI and SOX compliance reports. • AFA Enterprise Edition: This edition combines all three of the available software modules into a single, comprehensive solution, to help enterprises address all aspects of their firewall operations management, policy optimization and risk management requirements. AlgoSec’s Firewall Analyzer suite is constantly updated to support new functions. Where there is a difficult, complex or time-consuming aspect of firewall administration, AlgoSec aims to help users by finding ways to automate those tasks and reduce the time they spend managing their ever changing firewall environments. Through its off-line setup, the application is easy to deploy and use even in the most complex firewall environments. Some additional key features of the AlgoSec solution suite include: • Policy visualization options that allow users to view and explore their firewall policies in meaningful ways that are not available from their native firewall management console • Powerful policy queries that make the firewall change management and troubleshooting process easier and more efficient • Automated comparison reports that compare the configuration details of any two firewalls – even from different vendors - to ease the workload for users migrating from one firewall platform to another AlgoSec’s firewall analysis solutions work across all available platforms from the big 3 enterprise firewall vendors: Cisco, Check Point and Juniper/NetScreen. Its detailed policy analysis features, combined with an easy to navigate web GUI provides users with instant visibility into hidden risks in the firewall policy, while offering firewall administrators a rich set of capabilities to help them reduce the large amount of time spent managing these devices. The software is in use today at more than 200 enterprises worldwide. AlgoSec provides advanced management solutions for computer network security. Global 2000 organizations around the world are using AlgoSec's market leading software to analyze, audit and certify firewall and router ACL policies, and for change management, security compliance and policy optimization. AlgoSec offers IT security and operations personnel unparalleled visibility and guidance to ensure their firewall policies are secure and comply with corporate and government-mandated policies while adhering to industry best practices. For more information 
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