Firewall Builder 2.1.11

Thousands of users around the globe rely on Firewall Builder to help simplify their firewall management. Here are just a few of the reasons new users are joining the Firewall Builder community every day.<br /><br />Easy-to-Use GUI<br />Instead of dealing with cryptic command lines Firewall Builder provides an easy-to-use interface that lets users drag-and-drop objects to create even the most complex firewall rules.<br /><br />Supported Firewalls<br />From a single management application Firewall Builder supports a wide range of firewalls including Linux iptables, BSD pf, Cisco router access lists, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco FWSM and many more (complete list).<br /><br />Object Model*<br />Firewall Builder stores all user defined objects, like IP networks and server addresses, in a central database. Once an object is created it can be used in rules on multiple firewalls including different types of firewalls.<br /><br />Device Management*<br />Firewalls are more than just rules. Firewall Builder can also manage other critical device configurations like network interfaces and static routes. <br /><br />Features<br />Supported Platforms<br />Firewall Builder supports GUI based firewall policy configuration and management on Linux iptables, Cisco router ACL, Cisco ASA/PIX, OpenBSD pf, FreeBSD ipfw and ipfilter and HP ProCurve ACL.<br /><br />Object Models<br />The Firewall Builder GUI is based on the concept of user defined objects. Users can create objects, such as an E-mail server, that can be used by multiple firewalls in their rules. And the search funtion makes it easy to find everywhere an object is being used.<br /><br />Support for meta objects allows users to define a group object and use that group object in a rule. Groups can contain multiple types of child objects. For example, a group could include a mix of networks, hosts and address ranges. When Firewall Builder generates the rules for a target device that doesn't support group elements in its command syntax Firewall Builder will automatically create individual rules to match all the child objects in the group. <br /><br /><br /><br />Rules Validation<br />Using powerful inspection logic Firewall Builder analyzes configured firewall policies to identify:<br /> * Rules that aren't supported by a particular target platform<br /> * Invalid rules that might be the result of user error, such as NAT'ing UDP into TCP<br /> * Rule shadowing, which are rules that traffic will never reach due to an earlier rule matching the traffic first<br /><br /><br /><br />Rules Compiler<br />The built-in rules compiler generates platform specific firewall rules. The compiler understands the differences between device types and software versions ensuring that it will generate the right rules for each type of target device.<br /><br />Individual rules can be compiled in the GUI to the target platform command syntax at any time giving the user instant visibility to the specific commands that would be deployed to the firewall.<br /><br />Integrated Installer<br />Firewall Builder uses SSH and SCP to securely deploy your firewall configurations to the target devices. To help avoid situations where a firewall change accidentally blocks access to the device Firewall Builder includes functions to automatically revert a device firewall configuration to the previous version.<br /><br />Advanced Feature Configuration Support<br />In addition to the features shown above Firewall Builder includes support for configuring advanced features including:<br /><br /> * Cluster support for Cisco ASA/PIX, Linux iptables and OpenBSD pf firewalls<br /> * Dynamic live rule updates on Linux iptables (via ipset module) and OpenBSD pf<br /> * Run time options to have rule objects, like interfaces, determined on firewall startup<br /> * Predefined templates, including firewall rules, for common deployment scenarios<br /> * Device configuration of interface IP addresses, static routes, VLAN and bridge interfaces<br /> * Configuration versioning control using RCS<br /> * User defined pre and post firewall startup scripts

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Platforms:	Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, C/C++ , BSD Solaris
Keyword:	Firewall,  Firewall Builder,  Firewall Configuration,  Firewall Utility,  Networking,  Security
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