Every day, enterprise network environments become increasingly complex due to the constant introduction of new devices, applications, and cloud services. Manual tools are not sufficient to keep up with the pace, leaving firewall and security policies impossible to manage and open the door to compliance violations and misconfigurations that can lead to unplanned outdates and data breaches. To mitigate these risks, FireMon Security Manager is essential in enabling Google Cloud users to efficiently manage policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.

The FireMon-Google Cloud partnership enables companies to effectively manage the complexity of firewall policies to:

• Reduce policy related risk by finding high-risk vulnerabilities embedded in firewall policies
• Manage firewall rule changes and policies that span Google Cloud and devices from other vendors
• Achieve and maintain compliance of firewall policies with internal and external standards
• Assist migration of firewall policies to Google Cloud to simplify rule review, cleaning, and staging for migration
• Manage multi-vendor firewall policy by gathering devices and policies across the entire environment with built-in support for over 80 vendors

FireMon complements Google Cloud VPC firewall rules by evaluating policy related items that can lead to unnecessary complexity and increased risk.

• • Reduce policy complexity that leads to misconfiguration, human error, and increased risk
  • Discover overly permissive rules
  • Ensure dormant unused rules are not available for exploit
  • Identify and remove shadow rules that add ambiguity

FireMon gathers rules and policies from every firewall across the environment, including Google Cloud VPC firewall rules and firewalls from other vendors, then stores them in a centralized rule repository.

With this customers can:

• Automate rule change workflows that span the entire rule creation and change process
• Policy change automation recommends rules and can optionally deploy them to devices across the network

Enforce security and compliance across a range of on-premise, secure service edge, and cloud deployed network devices, whether an entire network is 100% Google Cloud or a hybrid combination of multiple vendors.

With FireMon, customers can:

• Produce accurate compliance reports in minutes
• Run built-in or customized reports for standards including PCI-DSS, NERC-CIP, NIST, and GDPR
• Identify policy violation in existing rules and catch new ones before they’re deployed
• Automate rule reviews and recertification