Important Tools for Managing and Monitoring a Firewall
Proper security management requires that you manage and monitor the firewalls in your infrastructure. As with every type of security, you cannot just install and forget about the firewalls on the network. Every security safeguard must be locked down, tuned, and monitored over time. Once the firewall has been installed and configured, the work of managing it begins.
Firewall management is about understanding that new threats are coming from hackers on a constant basis, and that the defenses and settings that work successfully today might not be the best defense against new attacks tomorrow. Firewall management is the essential task of maintaining a firewall in spite of these new threats. ...
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