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[ Stop Managing Recertification By Hand ]
Firewall rules pile up faster than anyone can review them. Owners change teams. A rule that should have been decertified last quarter is still open today. When an auditor asks for proof, the answer lives across a dozen spreadsheets and email threads.
Replace Manual Recertification With an Automated Workflow
Existing rules are reviewed on a set cadence and whenever a violation occurs. Automated workflows remove the risk of missing a recertification deadline, and built-in audit trails give you instant proof of compliance.
Tickets route automatically with full context, and dashboards show exactly where every review stands, so recertification keeps pace even as the rulebase grows.
Every review cycle surfaces overly permissive, expired, and unused rules and moves them toward removal.
Every reviewer decision, timestamp, and justification gets captured as it happens. When auditors ask, the evidence is already assembled with tamper-proof trails.
[ The Functionality ]
How Policy Optimizer Works
Open a review the moment a rule needs one, on policy violations, expiration, dormancy, control failures, or a scheduled compliance cycle, and route each rule to its owner by email with full context.
You can also push Security Manager search results into a workflow.
[ The Functionality ]
How Policy Optimizer Works
Open a review the moment a rule needs one, on policy violations, expiration, dormancy, control failures, or a scheduled compliance cycle, and route each rule to its owner by email with full context.
You can also push Security Manager search results into a workflow.
[ Customer Story ]
Global Hospitality Company Achieves 20% Reduction in False Positives
“Before FireMon, I was exporting configs one by one and chasing down false positives that turned out to be nothing. Now that whole process runs in the background, and I can actually trust what the platform is telling me.”
Network Security Engineer, Global Hospitality Company
20%
False positive rate eliminated from manual compliance reporting
100+
Firewalls and switches across Cisco, Fortinet, and Juniper
3
Multi-vendor environments unified in a single platform
[ FAQ ]
Frequently Asked Questions
FireMon Policy Optimizer is an add-on module for Security Manager that automates the review, recertification, and retirement of existing firewall and cloud security rules. It keeps policies current, compliant, and aligned with business need by triggering reviews, routing them to rule owners, and recording every decision.
Policy Optimizer improves compliance by enforcing periodic rule reviews, automating evidence for frameworks like PCI DSS 1.1.7, NERC CIP, and NIST, and maintaining tamper-proof audit trails. Rules are evaluated on a schedule and recertified or decommissioned before they fall out of compliance.
Policy Optimizer automates firewall rule recertification end to end. It generates and routes review tickets based on triggers like expiration, inactivity, or compliance violations, assigns each to the right rule owner, and tracks it from start to resolution.
Policy Optimizer reduces risk by surfacing overly permissive, expired, and unused rules and targeting them for removal. Retiring outdated access shrinks the attack surface and keeps stale rules from accumulating into exposure.
In Policy Optimizer, rule owners can certify, decertify, or revise each flagged rule. When paired with Policy Planner, decertified rules are decommissioned automatically through a secure, auditable change workflow.
Policy Optimizer adapts to any review cadence or escalation path through customizable workflows. It supports custom forms, approval hierarchies, role-based permissions, and rule-treatment options, and integrates with business process management tools.
Policy Optimizer records a complete audit trail for every rule review, capturing reviewer identity, timestamps, decisions, and supporting documentation. The result is audit-ready evidence available on demand for compliance reporting.
Policy Optimizer requires FireMon Security Manager as its foundation. Security Manager provides the policy visibility, search, and analytics across 120+ platforms that power Policy Optimizer's review and recertification workflows.
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Replace manual recertification with an automated workflow.