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0+ Weeks
Average time to create and implement a single firewall rule change manually.
The Bottlenecks in Manual Firewall Changes
A single rule change moves through security, network, and ITSM teams, and stalls at every handoff.
Without automated risk checks, even simple changes get routed to the few people who can judge them safe.
Compliance and risk get checked during an audit or incident, after the change is already in production.
One approved change still needs different commands and steps for every vendor platform it touches.
[ How FireMon Helps ]
Automate Every Stage of the Change Lifecycle
Rule creation and change management run as one orchestrated process, automating change commands and updates to network service and group objects while tracking every ticket's full history.
Changes that once took days now take minutes.
[ How FireMon Helps ]
Automate Every Stage of the Change Lifecycle
Rule creation and change management run as one orchestrated process, automating change commands and updates to network service and group objects while tracking every ticket's full history.
Changes that once took days now take minutes.
Integrate With the ITSM Tools You Already Use
Connect change workflows directly to the systems your teams use every day.
[ How It Works ]
Four Steps to Automated, Compliant Changes
User submits request via web UI, API, or integrated ITSM ticket.
FireMon routes to appropriate approvers and scans for compliance violations.
Impact analysis and risk scoring validate changes before go-live.
Changes deployed automatically or via guidance; full audit trail captured.
[ Customer Story ]
How a Global B2B Travel Platform Reduced Firewall Change Effort by 95%
FireMon gave us the visibility and automation we'd been missing, what used to take our team weeks now happens in hours, and we finally have a clear path to PCI 4.0 readiness.
Director, Global Network Operations, Global B2B Travel Platform
95%
Reduction in firewall rule change effort and overhead
30%
Engineer time reclaimed from manual access reviews
7.5x
ROI within the first year
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[ FAQ ]
Frequently Asked Questions
FireMon delivers firewall rule automation through Policy Planner, which moves a proposed rule change through validation, approval, and deployment without a manual, step-by-step process at every stage. Every change is checked against compliance and risk policies first, then deployed automatically or handed to an engineer as vendor-specific instructions.
FireMon reduces the risk in firewall rule automation by validating every proposed change against compliance and risk policies before it reaches production. Violations, overly permissive access, and rule conflicts get caught at the request stage, not during an audit or after an incident.
FireMon supports firewall rule automation across multiple vendors through Security Manager's normalization layer, which covers 120+ platforms including Check Point, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet firewalls, plus major cloud platforms such as AWS. One automated workflow runs across every enforcement point instead of a separate process per console.
FireMon doesn't require replacing manual review all at once to adopt firewall rule automation. Teams can automate validation first, keep manual deployment, and move toward full automation as confidence builds, at whatever pace matches their risk tolerance.
FireMon connects firewall rule automation to the ITSM tools teams already use, including ServiceNow, Jira, HP Service Manager, and Freshworks. A change ticket in any of those systems can trigger and track a rule change without a second system of record.
FireMon customers see significantly faster results after adopting firewall rule automation, shortening the time between request and live deployment to a fraction of the days-or-weeks baseline most manual processes take.
FireMon's approach to firewall rule automation scales down as well as up. Smaller teams can start with automated validation alone, on a smaller device count, and add deployment automation later, so the benefit isn't limited to large enterprises managing hundreds of firewalls.
[ Get Started ]
Automate Your Firewall Change Process
Up to 90% faster rule deployment
Full audit trail on every change, across every platform
ITSM-integrated from request to deployment