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Firewall Policy Risk is Real. FireMon Helps You Fix It.

FireMon Insights

60% of enterprise firewalls fail high-severity compliance checks. FireMon Insights gives you always-on visibility, peer benchmarking, and AI-driven firewall policy analysis to measure firewall security posture, track progress, and improve it—fast.

The Truth is in the Data

Firewall policies are inherently complex, and managing them effectively is one of the biggest challenges in network security.

That's why we created FireMon Insights: a cutting-edge network security benchmarking platform designed to help organizations measure, track, and improve their network security posture with actionable intelligence powered by AI.


How Do You Compare?

Based on anonymized real-world deployments, FireMon Insights reveals systemic issues across enterprise environments:

60%

of firewalls fail high-severity compliance checks

48%

of firewalls fail at critical security

45%

of rules lack an owner or documentation

95%

of firewall application objects are unused

69%

of rules are completely unused

17%

of rules are redundant or shadowed

see how your firewall policies compare

Real-Time Visibility. Actionable Intelligence. Policy Risk: Solved.

FireMon Insights

FireMon Insights is the always-on, AI-powered analytics layer for firewall policy management—purpose-built to help security teams and cybersecurity leaders measure policy effectiveness, diagnose firewall control failures, and prove firewall effectiveness.

Fully integrated with FireMon Policy Manager, Insights delivers real-time firewall policy analysis, control-based and executive-ready firewall dashboards, firewall security posture reporting, and natural language firewall queries—so you can measure what matters, benchmark against peers, track what’s improving or degrading, and turn noisy data into smart decisions.

“Firewall complexity isn’t just a configuration issue, it’s a threat to resilience and trust.” – Jody Brazil, CEO, FireMon

Benchmark your firewall policy risk against real-world industry data

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Expose what’s broken: firewall compliance gaps, unused firewall rules, redundant and shadowed rules, unowned policies, and failing controls

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Track firewall security posture scores and KPIs over time to show progress and ROI

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Diagnose which controls are dragging posture down, and whether fixes are working

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Get AI-powered firewall insights and answers—no waiting on scans or reports

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Clean up with confidence using actionable, always-on insights

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Control-Level Visibility With KPI Tracking

FireMon Insights turns policy data into actionable intelligence with real-time firewall policy KPI dashboards built for both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Insights Control-Level Visibility gives you domain-level pass/fail visibility across all managed devices – with color-coded heat maps showing where risk is concentrated and period-over-period trend data showing whether your posture is moving in the right direction.

Track progress on compliance, rule cleanup, policy complexity, and more—with visual KPIs that spotlight risk reduction and operational efficiency.

Whether you’re delivering board-level firewall reporting or leading day-to-day operations, Insights helps you measure what matters, prove firewall ROI, and align firewall performance to business goals.

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Diagnose Firewall Control Failures

Control Failure Analysis turns your compliance dashboard into a diagnostic tool. Rather than surfacing a score, it identifies the specific controls dragging posture down—showing which controls fail most often, where failures are increasing, and whether remediation efforts are making a measurable difference. Teams can move from “our compliance score dropped” to “these three controls are failing across 40 devices and have been trending worse for 60 days.”

Firewall Policy Benchmarking That Puts Your Risk in Context

FireMon Insights is a firewall security benchmarking tool that lets you compare your firewall policy performance against real-world industry data—so you can stop guessing where you stand.

Benchmark your environment across 20+ firewall policy health metrics, segmented by vendor, organization size, and compliance standards.

Track firewall policy trends over time, uncover gaps, and see how your efforts stack up. Security Posture Scoring and Trend Analysis makes improvement visible at the category and control level; linking score changes directly to the outcomes driving them, so teams know where to act and whether remediation efforts are making a difference.

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AI-Powered Search. Instant Answers. No Ticket Needed.

FireMon Insights includes a natural language, AI-powered firewall policy chatbot that makes complex firewall policy analysis as simple as asking a question.

Ask questions about your firewall policy in plain English—”What controls are driving my low security posture score?” or “Where are failures increasing fastest?”—and get precise, data-backed answers directly from live dashboard data. No exports, no tickets, no delays.

This accelerates troubleshooting, improves collaboration across teams, and helps you catch issues early in the change process—before they become risks.

See What Changed. Fix What’s Broken. Automate What Repeats.

See where your automation is working, and where it should be doing more. Workflow Intelligence, Policy Change Intelligence, and Automation Effectiveness surface change churn, ticket lifecycle bottlenecks, and automation gaps, so teams can target the improvements that will have the most measurable impact.

AI Policy Automation goes further—recommending and executing policy-related tasks based on live environment data, so teams move from compliance insight to operational change without a manual hand-off. Repetitive policy decisions that don’t require human intervention are handled automatically, reducing analyst workload and closing the gap between what Insights identifies and what gets fixed.


Instant visibility. Smarter decisions.

Hear how Insights supports real FireMon users

  • We have experienced a significant reduction in man hours required to monitor our firewall platforms, provide reporting, and assess each platforms for compliance.”

    Manager of IT Security Engineering

    Hospital & Health Care, 2,001-20,000 Employees

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