Manage Cisco and Linux firewalls together

Firewall Sync

Playbook is firewall sync. It works by creating a central web console for all your firewalling devices. The console grabs your firewall rules and places them under version control, so your team can work on them with change tracking, review, and rollback. Then, when you’re ready to deploy a change, you click a button and Playbook handles the details.

Intelligent Search

Keeping track of firewalls: it's a huge institutional burden. When Accounting apps need to talk to HR's database, you need to know what to reconfigure to allow traffic. Playbook's Intelligent Search does this work for you. It understands your rules and answers key questions, like, what devices refer to IP addresses in a CIDR subnet, or what devices need to change to block a service site-wide.

Firewall Rule Analysis

Playbook includes full parse engines for the firewalls it supports. It knows whether your rules are valid, and it knows how to figure out whether they permit or deny traffic, which hosts they refer to, and for what protocols and applications.

Validate Firewall Rules With Matasano Flint

Got a Cisco firewall? Check out Flint, Matasano's free, GPL-open-source tool for inspecting firewall rules. Flint detects over 100 firewall problems, from duplicate or inefficient rules to known-insecure protocols, and provides information about the services and networks you're allowing through your firewall. You can download it and run it right now, along with the source code, and it won't cost you a penny (or force you to fill out a purchase order).