In today's uncertain economic climate we are left trying to figure out how best we can manage our resources till we are sure of a rebound from this global financial crisis. Every small saving is a step towards saving our future growth. Budgets are getting slashed, spending tightened and every IT administrator is scrambling to reduce their IT expenditure. A huge dent on IT budgets is internet bandwidth costs and there is never enough amount of bandwidth for an enterprise. In such tough economic scenario maximizing our resources is the key to sustaining ourselves; IT Administrators can do so by having better control on bandwidth usage. Being aware of how the bandwidth is being utilized and by eliminating any non-business usage or high bandwidth intensive applications, IT administrators can go a long way in reducing their bandwidth costs.
For example in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), bandwidth charges are significantly higher and as shown below, even a little judicious usage of bandwidth can lead to considerable savings.
If 1 GB of Bandwidth is saved per day, then 25 GB is saved per month.
Bandwidth Cost Savings: 25 GB × $ 40 = $1000 per month.
These savings could potentially be much higher when deployed in real life environments. Now you must be thinking how do we implement this? Let me assume you already have an IT infrastructure in place with Firewalls included in your network. Firewall Analyzer is a solution that lets you figure out the bandwidth usage patterns in your network as a result you can effectively make changes to your IT policies to ensure judicial usage of bandwidth thereby reducing bandwidth charges.
When deployed, Firewall Analyzer can generate reports to display the top websites that are accessed by the network. Also it displays the top hosts/users/protocols that use the bandwidth most. This enables Network Administrators to determine any rogue site which is causing a bandwidth hog or any user who maybe using the bandwidth for non-business use and thereby gives control over the usage. This information can enable a network administrator to block any unwanted websites from their network which are taking up excessive bandwidth. Therefore you can effectively control your bandwidth usage which automatically translates into cost savings.
Here's a case study that illustrates how Firewall Analyzer helped Professional Engineers Ontario, Canada gain control of their Bandwidth usage. This provides a real life example of the challenges faced by the organization and how effectively their bandwidth usage was controlled on implementing Firewall Analyzer. More info about ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer can be found at http://www.fwanalyzer.com.
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AdventNet ManageEngine is hosting Roadshow in countries across the European Union.
If perimeter security of your enterprise network is your concern, then you must visit ME Euro Roadshow 2008.
We are available in your town. Feel free to seek any information about Firewall Analyzer. Join us at the Roadshow in your country, register here
Check complete details about the Roadshow, visit the link: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/euroroadshow/
We are happy to announce that we have become Fortinet Technolgy Partner by joining their Global Alliance Partner Program.
AdventNet Joins Fortinet Global Alliance Partner Program
AdventNet’s ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Extends Fortinet’s Unified Threat Management Solution
PLEASANTON, CA–(Marketwire - June 20, 2008) - AdventNet, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise IT management & security software, today announced it has joined Fortinet’s Global Alliance Partner Program as a technology partner. Fortinet’s partner program includes manufacturers, consultancy firms, service providers, global system integrators and other technology firms who complement and extend the unique value proposition of Fortinet’s leading unified threat management (UTM) solutions for helping to protect customers against current and evolving threats. Through this partnership, AdventNet’s ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer helps Fortinet® to complement its network security technology by monitoring firewall usage and policies.
With the enterprise IT security market getting consolidated, IT managers and security administrators are looking for unified solutions instead of point products. Typically, point solutions also include a firewall and log analysis application, which may either offer inadequate features for log management or does not support the log format of the deployed firewall. As such, IT managers are demanding unified solutions with integrated and interoperable firewall devices and log analysis applications. This market situation makes the AdventNet-Fortinet partnership a step ahead in offering an integrated solution to their customers and a good fit for a unified security information and event management (SIEM) solution.
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is an enterprise-class, vendor-neutral software for Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS and Proxy server log analysis. It enhances the availability and security of the network by continuously collecting, analyzing, and reporting on logs from edge-devices, and helps track intrusion, manage user access, audit traffic and manage network bandwidth efficiently. Firewall Analyzer successfully passed Fortinet’s FortiVerified™ process, a rigorous testing process designed to certify interoperability and guarantee proper integration with the FortiGate™ multi-threat network security appliance.
“We are pleased to have AdventNet as a technology partner and member of the Fortinet Global Alliance Partner Program,” said Michael Rivers, Vice President of Business Development at Fortinet. “The Firewall Analyzer performs an important function, which now works seamlessly with FortiGate products to provide a robust security solution.”
“With Firewall Analyzer interoperating with Fortinet devices, Fortinet strengthens its unified threat management offering. This agreement also testifies to our reputation as the industry’s leading SIEM vendor,” said Shailesh Kumar, VP Engineering, AdventNet, Inc. “I am sure with the integration of our Firewall log analysis tool there will be a tremendous value-add to Fortinet customers,” he added.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet is the pioneer and world’s leading provider of Unified Threat Management (UTM) security systems that enable secure business communications and deliver the best security, performance and total cost of ownership available. Fortinet’s award-winning security systems and subscription services protect the networks of more than 20,000 customers worldwide — including telecommunications carriers, service providers and enterprises of all sizes. Visit Fortinet at www.fortinet.com
About AdventNet
Enabling Management Your Way™
Founded in 1996, AdventNet is a software company with a broad portfolio of elegantly designed, affordable products and web services. AdventNet offerings span a spectrum of vertical areas, including network & systems management (www.ManageEngine.com), security (www.SecureCentral.com), collaboration, CRM & office productivity applications (www.Zoho.com), database search and migration (www.SQLOne.com), test automation tools (www.QEngine.com). AdventNet has a large and rapidly growing global customer base, and has presence in all the major markets. The company is based in Pleasanton, California with offices worldwide. Visit us at www.adventnet.com
ManageEngine booth at the Interop 08 Las Vegas saw a lot of activity.
SIEM customers kept pouring in. Existing customers were very happy to visit us at the booth.
Kevin Brumbaugh of Social & Scientific Systems (in the middle) having a word with Karthik VJ of AdventNet. Their enterprise is our esteemed, happy customer of Firewall Analyzer.
They are also customer of EventLog Analyzer, which is another product of Security Product suite.
AdventNet ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
We will be happy to meet you in person at the Interop Las Vegas 2008. You can visit us at booth number 2319. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop in and contact Mr Karthik VJ. He will be happy to assist you.
Most of our customers projected the requirement of raw log search functionality through various channels.Much expected Raw Log Search functionality is now available in Firewall Analyzer 5. You can search for any word in the log message. By default Firewall Analyzer indexes security logs, VPN logs, Virus & Attack logs and Administrator logs. With indexing, you can have a real time search on any of the above logs.When you carry out forensic analysis of traffic logs, it can be done through off line indexing i.e., archived log files can be loaded and you can search traffic logs too. This feature enables you to find the exact time at which the corresponding security event had happened.
Firewall Analyzer 5 lets you to search your IT infrastructure logs. Happy Searching!!
Drilling down to the core level is so easy!
Another interesting feature would be showing the exact raw logs, when you drill down front line graphs. For example, if Attack reports highlight that an IP address is carrying out DDOS Attack, by clicking on that IP address you will get to know the exact raw logs that are being generated from your firewall. This feature will come handy to the Network Administrators, as they are very familiar with the raw SysLog generated from their firewalls.
At the recently held SecureAsia 08 Trade Show in KualaLumpur, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer gained a lot of visiblity.
An esteemed, happy customer, Kevin of Western Digital Inc., in the DataBridge booth (Firewall Analyzer reseller partner) posing with K Kumar of DataBridge and Karthik VJ of AdventNet ManageEngine.
In the network perimeter security environment, Firewall devices play a pro-active role. The whole of traffic external to the network, passing through the device, is governed by set of Firewall policies or Access Control List (ACL). You need to consider the control of flow of traffic through the device. The usage of the Firewall policies provides a fair idea of the traffic. If you you are able to ascertain which are the most used policies and unused policies, you can visualize the pattern of the traffic. Based on this, you can fine tune the policies to control the traffic more effectively.
But manual analysis of the Firewall policy would be a pain for a network administrator. The mundane work also consumes considerable amount of time of the administrator. To address this, we have provided a solution in a single click. In its recent release, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer 5 allows you to find out the Firewall policies usage accurately. It displays the number events resulting from triggering of a particular policy. More importantly, it lets you know the Firewall policies which were seldom used. This information enables you to manage the unused policies effectively by removing or modifying them. The most used policies provide a picture of what is happening at your Firewall. You can further investigate the over usage of a particular policy. The analysis can provide insight into the unnecessary or redundant policies arising out of more than one administrator working on the same set of policies.
Want to see all these in action, try ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer 5. It is available free for 30 days trial. Download the application here.
We are happy to anounce that our network monitoring product ManageEngine? OpManager now (Build 7010 onwards) supports integration with ManageEngine? Firewall Analyzer.
Integrating OpManager with Firewall Analyzer allows you to monitor your Server's Security, Traffic, & Bandwidth utilization in depth. The benefits of this integration support are:
? Determine the top active users of your servers.
? Monitor suspicious user activities, potential attacks and hack attempts which can compromise your server.
? Identify the highly utilized resources/URLs in your servers.
? Receive notifications on any policy violations on your servers.
? and more
View sample screenshots of the Firewall Analyzer integration support provided in the latest OpManager update.
Please write to us at support@fwanalyzer.com to know more about this integration support.
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We are happy to announce the availability of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Service Pack 3 (Build 4030).
To get the complete build (4030) follow the below URL.
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/firewall/download.html
Customers using earlier build of Firewall Analyzer, please download the Service Pack 3 from the below URL. Please follow the instructions before applying the service pack.
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/firewall/service-packs.html
Listed below are the feature enhancements, bug fixes and limitations of build 4030:
New Features and Enhancements
> WatchGuard 8.0 Syslog supported.
> D-Link DFL series supported.
> Security statistics dashboard view for port scans, virus, attacks, failed logon's, and other security events has been included.
> View cumulative flow rate of firewall logs for troubleshooting.
> Protocol Identifiers range support for the addition or modification of protocols.
> Custom report profile creation now supports IP Address range and CIDR format while adding filters.
> Automatic hard disk space alert has been provided.
> NetScreen, and FortiGate Firewall Admin reports for compliance has been included.
> Japanese language support has been provided.
> Guest user privileges now satisfy the strict access control requirements of MSSP customers.
Bug Fixes
> NetScreen user to IP address mapping, where users authenticated using single sign-on servers, were not mapped to the IP address logged in the firewall logs.
> PDF formatting issues.
> Issues in CheckPoint VPN reports.
Known Issues
For any assistance please write to support@fwanalyzer.com
Thanks & Regards
AJ
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