Review firewall changes before deployment

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.

Industrial Strength Version Control

Every change you make in Playbook is tracked in the proven industry standard Subversion VCS. So there’s that. Want to see what’s happening on your team? Playbook gives you a “timeline” page you can bookmark to see all the changes over the last day, week, hour, month, or whatever. You can RSS it if you’re nerdy like that and keep track of your devices right alongside Reddit.

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.

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.