Re: secure firewall rule management program

Mordechai,

AlgoSec FireFlow does pretty much exactly what you need.
It is definitely topology aware and can tell you which firewalls
you should modify to meet a change request.
It has rule expiration built in.
Supports Check Point, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet.

http://www.algosec.com

Avishai

disclaimer: I'm AlgoSec CTO & Co-Founder so I'm biased.



On 9/3/09, Mordechai T. Abzug <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone have suggestions for a good, secure webified firewall rule
> management program?  I.e. the kind of thing where users submit
> requests for firewall holes and there's support for workflow so that a
> requested rule goes to an approver for approval, and if approved, it
> then goes to an implementer for implementation.  COTS or free is fine.
>
> Requirements:
>
> * Secure code!  The firewall request system should not itself be a
>  security hole.
>
> * The system should allow users to submit rule requests, to be
>  approved by designated "approvers", and if approved, implemented by
>  designated "implementers".
>
> * Awareness of firewall topology.  I.e. the product needs to be aware
>  of which firewalls a given request traverses so this information can
>  be available to approvers and implementers.
>
> * The system should include a notion of rule expiration, with
>  attendant workflow.
>
> * The system should support change requests to existing rules, with
>  attendant approver/implementer workflow.
>
> * The ability to abstract users into departments or projects,
>  ie. instead of the rule for the accounting web server belonging to
>  an individual, it belongs to "accounting".  Even better if an
>  individual can submit for multiple projects, ie. a sysadmin who
>  works for both accounting and marketing can annotate "this rule
>  belongs to accounting" and the like.
>
> * Sane role/permissions scheme, ie. user from department 1 can't
>  modify rule requests for department 2, and the like.
>
> Desirements:
>
> * The ability to export rulesets into popular firewall formats
>
> * The ability to import existing rules from popular firewall formats
>
> * The ability to search for IPs in rules using CIDR specifications
>
> * COTS or free.  We have some budget, but if there is something free,
>  we certainly won't complain.
>
> [People who have been around a while might remember that I asked this
> question some years ago.  Unfortunately, there were no answers other
> than some private, "yes, we'd like that too."]
>
> - Morty
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