Practical Network Scanning

Firewall management

Firewall protects the enterprise network and plays a critical role on perimeter defense. The majority of data breaches take place due to misconfiguration. Consequently, it becomes very important for enterprises to leave admin access in the hands of experts and not to leave security in auto-pilot mode. A real-time dashboard is absolutely required to monitor network firewall traffic continuously to identify and respond to threats before the damage is done.

There are couple of best practices that must be implemented to operate firewall properly:

• Change control policy: Firewall rules or policy changes are very dynamic in nature and are mostly inevitable when it comes to accommodating new changes in the infrastructure environment ...