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After you have congured your rewalls, use your
McAfee Firewall Enterprise Proler for situational
awareness about changing usage and threats and
at-a-glance monitoring day to day. It helps you
discover, visualize, and monitor application usage
by user group and risk level.
With McAfee Firewall Enterprise Proler’s
graphical displays, you spend minutes rather
than hours planning changes, optimizing rules,
and troubleshooting rewall-related network or
application outages. McAfee Firewall Enterprise
Proler helps replace substantial manual effort
andlog viewing with a few simple clicks.
This software, included with your Firewall purchase
or available in a dedicated appliance, takes feeds
from the rewall, analyzes the data for visibility
into how the rewall rules are affecting the
network, and helps you detect changes in access
patterns in real time.
Application discovery and real-time
usagevisualization
While McAfee Firewall Enterprise discovers the
applications traversing the network, McAfee
Firewall Enterprise Proler visualizes those
applications, both inbound and outbound. It also
shows you how bandwidth is being used, by risk
level and user group.
Dynamic displays highlight changes on the
network, comparing timeframes and prioritizing
events to help you detect alterations in access
patterns that could signal a problem. You can
track what happens for any time period at the
rewall, characterizing users and assets based on
real-time network activity and visualizing rewall
deny/allow actions in context. This clarity lets you
determine which applications are required and
which are not, and create policies in the rewall
that control access to applications. With data to
back up decision-making, you can reduce cost
in terms of bandwidth use, improve productivity,
and tune rules or educate users to ensure usage
matches organizational policies.
Threat and geographic visualization
Since many attacks are targeted and subtle,
McAfee Firewall Enterprise Proler gives you tools
to determine if the systems protected by your
rewalls are under attack, identify threats, conrm
countermeasures are in place, and prioritize risks.
The system highlights changes in risk so you can
Proler Advantages
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Proler features a next
generation web UI viewable
from any web enabled device,
orfrom within Control Center
to integrate monitoring with
other workows and assist
incident response.
•
McAfee ePO platform
integration allows the opening
of tickets and other actions
based on changing behaviors
sent from McAfee Firewall
Enterprise Proler.
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Visualization of all rewall
actions in terms of who/what/
where improves diagnosis and
provides guidance into needed
rule changes.
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Correlates 30 days worth of
rewall actions to network users
and roles in real-time to quickly
validate impact of changes.
•
On-demand access to McAfee
ePO platform asset directory
conrms that the right
countermeasures are active
ona host, such as AV and
endpoint encryption.
•
Identify root cause categoriza-
tions for deniedtrafc.
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Pulls rewall policy and rule
objects to show the details
of the rule and also provides
reports in terms of rewall
policy objects.
•
Timeframe comparison and
prioritized visualization for
detecting important changes
inaccess patterns.
•
Create reporting objects to
improve or focus analysis in
particular areas of the network.
•
Use graphical reports to
convey situational awareness,
threats by geographic location,
applications traversing the
rewall, and other information
to those who need toknow.
•
Can be deployed quickly and
leverages existing network
devices and infrastructures.
•
Intercepts login authentications
without host agents or
additional inline devices.
•
Enables trending and analysis
without manually intensive,
after-the-fact log collection
andreview.
Figure 3. Since crises seem to hit most often when you’re away from the ofce, you can troubleshoot rewall events from
any webbrowser.