ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Reviews

I have used the solution in my company since 2013, as there were different vendors' products, like Cisco, Juniper, and FortiGate. Altogether, there were no solutions where I could get the reports and other things in a single dashboard, so my company chose ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and then integrated multiple firewalls to analyze the logs, getting the alerts and get the reports.

It's reduced the manual task and save FTE.

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is used as a sub-product of a suite called OPManager, and while it's a feature meant for monitoring specific firewall policies, traffic, and managing changes, we have always sold it as an add-on to OPManager rather than as a standalone product.

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is sold as one feature among many; it specifically monitors firewalls by providing insights on policies, incoming and outgoing traffic, and allows change management with appropriate approvals, enabling users to manage multiple firewalls across different OEMs from a single dashboard.

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer's feature for in-depth traffic analysis includes configuration management and overall monitoring of firewalls, with an emphasis on compliance management, allowing for automated reports across different OEMs to meet regulatory standards.

Regarding the effectiveness of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer's automated alerts and notifications, if we have set the correct thresholds and configured it properly, alerts and notifications are always reliable.

The real-time monitoring feature of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is fairly good; it allows customization of polling intervals down to a couple of seconds, which helps catch unusual activities before major security incidents arise, enabling us to set thresholds and alerts to investigate issues proactively.

The historical trend analysis feature of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer benefits long-term network planning and optimization efforts by retaining data for a year, or longer if storage permits, enabling the analysis of trends and better forecasting for bandwidth needs.

This is a direct benefit received from ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer; while it's an advanced feature that customers typically use later for forecast planning, it's a very effective feature for insights into network performance.

We haven't deployed the solution with any company yet; we're thinking about it. As a product, I know it from a previous organization. The only features that I like about it are its simplicity and its ease of use. 

Overall the solution does a good job.

The solution lacks a lot of features that other products have in the marketplace.

The solution needs better visual representation and better reporting. The reports sometimes are not as good as what is offered by other competitors.

The dashboard is sufficient, but it's not as intuitive as many competitor dashboards.

The solution needs a better graphical visualization so that you can see the rules.

Just generally, the solution needs to have the ability to do much more granular level visualizations. This is especially necessary around the policy engines. Users should be able to create network segmentation zones and then do what-if scenarios so that they can understand the impact and do more fine-grain impact analysis of new rules before deploying them.

We use Firewall Analyzer for auditing and rule management.

Firewall Analyzer is easy to work with.

Firewall Analyzer helps our network team to analyze the log, helps in monitoring the firewall and network security status. It also helps in managing the compliance as per company policy, reviewing employee activities over the internet, etc.

Firewall Analyzer helps our organization to fulfill the compliance requirement as per ISO 27001, managing the network security effectively. 

Using this product as a syslog server to capture windows server logs and Palo Alto firewall. The default logs per product differ as I needed longer than one month's worth. 

It is another tool to have. In my case, it stores my logs for me so that I can use the product to do reporting.

The most valuable feature is log transparency because it shows logs in a very easy way. You can easily understand the source & destination with the service port number.

The event log also works fine. We get transparency in the event log product.

They should improve monitoring & notifications when switching concepts. My latest experience is they were unable to get switch access alerts. It doesn't have any option for Cisco IPS monitoring. Their server doesn't support 64-bit Check Point firewall & many other types of firewall, like Sophos.

We use ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer in order to monitor all the security infrastructure that we are in charge of, such as firewalls.

The most valuable features of the ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer are the monitoring of the full management of the network elements and the inventory of the infrastructure.