Organize firewalls into hierarchies


You have 20 firewalls. A bunch of them are at your Internet perimeter. Some of them form failover pairs. Some of them separate your DMZ from your internal network. You want to be able to think about devices in terms of their role, not their hostname or IP address.

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.

Firewall Rule Analysis

Because Playbook fully understands the rules that it manages, it can detect common syntax errors and flag them before allowing the network to be disrupted by broken configurations.

Playbook knows how firewall rules are parsed, so you can group firewalls together and allow them to "inherit" rules. All your Internet perimeter firewalls can go in a group, and you can make a single change to the group that will hit every firewall.

Push-Button Deployment

Say you have 25 firewalls. Right now, to make a rule change, you have to log into 25 devices and issue commands. Playbook eliminates that problem. It establishes an authenticated connection to the device, which it uses to deploy changes from authorized users. Firewall rule changes no longer require engineers to directly log in to management consoles.