
Data Sheet McAfee Firewall Management
McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control
Center Advantages
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Quickly search for rules and objects
to reuse in existing or new rewalls
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Dene packet ltering and
application-layer rules quickly and
efciently in a graphical, object-
based environment
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Use wizards to reduce the size
and complexity of your rule base,
reduce overlaps and duplications,
and simplify common tasks like
VPNdeployments
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Receive, consolidate, and display
customized alerts from managed
rewalls through a secure channel
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Validate policy consistency and
understand rule interactions prior to
distribution
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Import rewall congurations, make
changes, and then export back to
all devices, saving signicant time
andeffort
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Backup and restore rewall
congurations to recover from
conguration errors, or replicate
a trusted conguration on a new
system quickly and easily
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Control individual or groups of
rewalls by re-initializing the
network or rebooting
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Cost-effectively manage multiple
entries, organizations, or
conguration domains (for managed
services) or organizations
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Track all user actions in a session
by associating them with a
changeticket
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Support audit and regulatory
compliance by viewing all changes
in the audit trail with the change
ticketnumber
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Automatically update all rewalls
with the latest software releases
andpatches
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Right-click on a rewall in Control
Center and launch immediate
command line access via SSH
Intuitive dashboard and real-time
auditviewer
Therewalldashboardprovidesquickdetailson
systemstatus,allowssimpleconrmationand
updatingofsecurityservices,andhighlights
thelatestnumberofapplicationsdiscovered
andpoliciesinuseoveryourchosentimespan.
Additionally,thereal-timeauditviewerwithinthe
consolehelpsyoukeepabreastofactiverules
andtroubleshootissues.Youcanlterauditlogs
usingpredenedorcustomlters,colorcodethe
resultstoaccentuatethreatevents,andschedule
automaticexportingofdatatoreportingsystems,
likeMcAfee
®
FirewallReporterorMcAfee
®
SecurityInnovationAlliancepartnerproducts.
Central Administration
Inenvironmentswithmultiplerewalls,rewall
administratorscanusethelocalrewall
administrationconsoleforfullpolicyanddevice
conguration,tosetupandmonitordashboards,
andtoperformtroubleshootingbyviewingpacket
capturesandlogsinrealtime.
Buthowdoyouseethebigpicture?Howdoyou
captureeconomiesofscaleandreduceoverlaps
inrules,policies,andoperations?Theoptional
McAfeeFirewallEnterpriseControlCenter
dedicatedorvirtualappliancecentralizesrewall
managementacrossmultiplerewalls,boosting
consistencyandslashingmaintenanceeffort.
ControlCenterhelpsyouimplementrewall
securitycongurationsettings,policies,andpolicy
changesquickly,easily,andaccuratelyacross
yourentirerewallinfrastructure.Thisintegrated
environmentunitesalloftheMcAfeerewall
managementtools.
Powerful yet simple rule creation, validation,
and distribution
Anenterprisesecuritypolicymayrequirehundreds
ofrulesdeployedacrossaeetofrewalls.Large
policieswithmanyrulesarehardertomanageand
increasethechanceofusererror,whichputsthe
networkatrisk.
TheControlCenterenvironmenthelpsyou
constructandoptimizepoliciestominimizethe
numberofrules,streamliningexecutionforbetter
rewallperformance.Youcanallowthetrafcand
inspectionsthatyouneed,withoutextrachecks
thatslowitdown.
ControlCenterincludesgraphical,fullyintegrated
policymanagementtoolsthathandleyourentire
enterprisenetwork—fromtheedgetothecore.
Thesinglerulepolicyconceptavailableforlocal
administrationisenrichedheretomatchthechal-
lengesofmanagingmultiplesystems,handling
complexnetworktopologies,andreusingrules.As
youdenepowerfulrulestotakefulladvantageof
lteringandprotectionfeaturesandactonappli-
cationsandusers,ControlCenterhelpsyoulever-
agetheserulesacrossyourrewallinfrastructure.
Drag-and-droprule“objects”makeiteasyto
congure,reuse,merge,optimize,troubleshoot,
andcleanup(removeunused)policiesasyou
createspeciccongurationsforeachappliance
inamulti-rewallenvironment.Tocontrolaccess
tospecicsystems,suchasdatabaseservers,you
cansearchbyruleswithinobjects,suchasIP
addressorport.Justdraganddroptheresulting
ruleobjectstothecorrectruleeldstocreateor
updateaccesscontrols.Beforeyouupdatetherule,
justclicktoseeifthereareoverlapsandconrm
thattherulewillre.
McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center centralizes and eases management of multiple firewalls
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