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As of June 2025, the mindshare of FireMon Security Manager in the Firewall Security Management category stands at 17.1%, up from 16.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryFirewall Security ManagementJun 1, 2025Download
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Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
6%
Government
5%
Insurance Company
5%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Retailer
4%
Educational Organization
4%
University
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Construction Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Non Profit
1%
Media Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
International Affairs Institute
1%
Leisure / Travel Company
1%

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Ganesh-Khutwad - PeerSpot user
Senior Network Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Nov 24, 2024
Rapid policy insights with robust dashboards and cross-vendor automation

Pros

"Its user-friendly interface allows for easy viewing and searching of network policies, including proxies, all on one console."

Cons

"The support response time has room for improvement."
MichaelLavin - PeerSpot user
Digital Workforce Initiatives Leader at Galway
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Feb 10, 2025
Improved compliance monitoring but zone interpretation needs refinement

Pros

"The most effective feature is the general reporting on compliance."

Cons

"The issue for me started with Fortinet not being able to see things correctly. It lost its appeal in terms of what it could do for me from a security standpoint, so I do not pay as much attention to it."
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Network security consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Feb 19, 2025
Streamlines firewall cleanup and helps with tracking

Pros

"The most valuable feature for me is its capability for cleanup and managing the complexity of security products."

Cons

"A feature that could be improved is support for more devices, not just the firewall. "
Jaimin Mehta - PeerSpot user
Senior Server and Cloud Engineer at Ertech
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Aug 31, 2023
Has an excellent dashboard, and performs comprehensive risk analysis, but can be more user-friendly

Pros

"What I like about FireMon is the ability to track changes made by network engineers on the network. "

Cons

"FireMon could be made more user-friendly when it comes to creating filters or conducting traffic analysis."
JeffReese - PeerSpot user
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Jul 26, 2022
Makes compliance much easier compared to doing it manually, and automates policy changes across environments

Pros

"In one report, FireMon tells us there are, say, 1,000 rules that can be taken out and it gives us the ability to disable those for a year and to track when we made our changes. After a year, we can go back and eliminate the rules, to bring the configuration down to an almost human-readable level."

Cons

"When it comes to documentation, they need to start putting together a basic command manual. With Cisco, you can look up a command and it gives you examples of three or four different ways that command can be used. It tells you how to put it into the GUI and the CLI. FireMon does need to start doing that."
PeerSpot user
Security Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Jul 28, 2023
Reporting helps us remove rules rather having to dig deep to do so, but some functions are tricky to use

Pros

"I've been using the reports to see what is going on, and that is a helpful feature. We can track down unused rules, which helps with compliance. We can see rules that have not been used or that are duplicates or overly permissive."

Cons

"Some of the things that you want to do in FireMon are not exactly straightforward, like creating certain reports or controls. Some of the functions could be a little more user-friendly, such as creating certain filters."
PeerSpot user
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Jul 11, 2022
We have been able to meet our compliance risk management targets

Pros

"When it comes to real-time compliance management, it is very good because it is able to compare changes in the configuration as well as giving us a timestamp. It also sends email alerts to our environment so we know if someone has made a change on the network. It gives us the whole picture of that change. Whether it is a configuration change or just a small comment, it gives us the before and after snapshot."

Cons

"FireMon could improve its end-user practices. As an end user, I am just trying to catch up on all the alerts. There are so many, and you still have to go through them and document what was found. "
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Solution Architect at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of FireMon Security Manager
Sep 14, 2022
Gives us an elegant, efficient way to clean up firewall rules, and better real-time capabilities for PCI compliance

Pros

"The unused objects is another nice feature, where it digs a little bit deeper into comparing the logs that it sees versus the configurations that it sees... The unused objects feature will go through in a pretty detailed way and show us which ones aren't being used. Or, if they are used, it will show us how often they're used. "

Cons

"To my knowledge, there's no cloud component to FireMon whatsoever. We're on the hook for any updates to versioning of the operating system or the application that runs on the operating system. It would be nice if it was a little bit more automated."