Get email notification for firewall changes


You buy hot spares to mitigate the risk that one of your firewalls will experience a hardware failure. But you're far more likely to lose your network to an unauthorized or out-of-process change.

Firewall Sync

Playbook acquires your firewall rules directly and puts them in a web console. To make a rule change that affects every firewall in your enterprise, there’s a single place to write and track the change. All your changes are tracked. When it’s time to deploy the change, you click a button, and Playbook handles the drama.

Code Review

Playbook makes change management transparent. Each firewall change includes a review step. You can delegate work across a group and have it reviewed by senior staff before it's deployed. Rule changes are highlighted for easy comparison. Comments for changes are visible, allowing for a transparent dialogue between change and approval.

Ticketing and Change Management

Playbook gives your internal customers a simple ticket system to request changes. You pick up tickets and work on firewall rules. We’ve figured out what your rules mean, so you can search by hosts and ports and protocols, including inside of CIDR netmasks. You make a change. It’s tracked. Your team can review the change diff. When you commit the change —- get this —- the rule change is tracked with the ticket request, so you have an audit record. Wave that in front of your SOX auditors like a voodoo doll.

Searchable, Syndicatable Timeline

All changes and events in Playbook are tracked in a continuous timeline, which can be queried and filtered by device and kind. Engineers can also securely subscribe to the timeline in an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with network changes.