Unlock Next-Level Network Management with FireMon Asset Manager 5.0
May 15 2024 - 7:57AM
Business Wire
New version improves situational awareness with
advanced integrations to deliver unprecedented control and
automation for hybrid networks.
FireMon, the leading network security policy management (NSPM)
company that brings visibility, control, agility, and automation to
enterprise cloud and hybrid network infrastructure, has announced
the availability of FireMon Asset Manager 5.0. This new version of
its solution provides comprehensive real-time cyber situational
awareness of an organization’s infrastructure, brings with it
improved manageability, extends integration with other platforms,
and further strengthens delivering complete visibility of
organizational assets.
FireMon Asset Manager 5.0 finds every L2 and L3 device across
the network, including on-premises and cloud environments. This
gives teams an accurate inventory of all networks, connections,
routes, and devices across the enterprise. Automatic profiling
identifies devices, including endpoints, routers, switches, and
OT/IoT, whether installed in the organization’s data center or
hosted in the cloud. To achieve this, Asset Manager uses multiple
discovery protocols to support active, passive, and targeted
discovery methods, avoiding the use of agents to further reduce
network impact.
FireMon Asset Manager 5.0 delivers the most robust, flexible API
to date for sharing asset knowledge with other systems. This
ensures continuous compliance and helps protect the organizational
environment. Companies can, therefore, enhance their existing
security investments by feeding them complete, accurate, and
fact-based network intelligence.
To this end, the new version delivers enhanced integration
capabilities with the Axonius cyber asset management solution,
VMWare’s Carbon Black Cloud endpoint and workload protection
platform, and Cisco’s Meraki network management platform for
improved discovery in those environments. For example, in the case
of Axonius, FireMon Asset Manager 5.0 provides users with a
complete view of their often-obscure infrastructure through an
automated solution that delivers continuous, real-time discovery
and visibility of all assets, improving the picture seen through
Axonius.
Of course, the new version can pull in a richer data set for
existing integrations across all environments to further strengthen
the value proposition of using FireMon. This is essential given how
distributed workloads across on-premises networks and cloud
platforms create new risks from an increasingly complex and
expanding attack surface. FireMon Asset Manager 5.0 delivers
significantly improved LDAP and Active Directory authentication
support. It also features improvements to the UI to now include
multi-server and multi-port Syslog support.
“Companies cannot manage what they cannot see. As a business
grows, so does the risk of introducing gaps in network visibility,”
said Justin Stouder, General Manager of FireMon. “FireMon Asset
Manager 5.0 ensures businesses can manage assets in different
environments, enriched by external data integrations, and enhances
capabilities with SOAR and vulnerability scanner integrations for
faster response to potential threats. Asset management is essential
for today’s connected enterprise. The continued work of the FireMon
team to enhance this solution empowers organizations with a tool
that gives them access to better foundational data with a wide
reach and comprehensive network coverage. Using FireMon, our
customers have an intuitive, visual way to grasp the significance
of unusual events, trends, security gaps, threats, and
misconfigurations.”
Despite the additional features, FireMon Asset Manager 5.0
remains one of the most lightweight and non-intrusive asset
management solutions in the market. It provides organizations with
the insights needed to find their network's ingress and egress
points, including rogue and unauthorized internet connectivity,
with a patented leak path detection feature to ensure network
defenses are protecting critical assets. Custom notifications,
thresholds, and other integrations, including SIEM CEF logging,
provide teams with prompt alerting to changes in the
environment.
“FireMon Asset Manager provides a real-time cyber situational
awareness for discovering and monitoring the entire network
infrastructure. The newly introduced features in version 5.0 take
asset discovery to a new level,” said Jody Brazil, CEO of FireMon.
“FireMon uses advanced behavioral detection techniques to alert
security teams when suspicious activities or compliance violations
are detected. Fundamentally, it accurately reduces organizational
risk by detecting and identifying assets and networks to secure the
business environment.”
About FireMon
FireMon’s mission is to improve security operations that will in
turn lead to better security outcomes. FireMon delivers
industry-leading security policy management, cloud security, and
asset management solutions. Our platform is the only real-time
solution that reduces firewall and cloud security policy-related
risks, manages policy changes, and enforces compliance. FireMon’s
Cloud Defense (formerly DisruptOps) is the only distributed cloud
security offering that detects and responds to issues in the
fast-paced public cloud environments. Our cloud-based Asset
Management solution (formerly Lumeta) scans entire infrastructures
to identify everything in the environment and provide valuable
insights into how it’s all connected. Learn more at FireMon.com and
the FireMon Blog.
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