Firewall Audit and Configuration Review

Auditing is a crucial term in the field of cybersecurity. The process involves the examination of critical documents and configurations in a network or an organization to detect and prevent the faults and errors in order to mitigate the concerned risks. Firewall audits help the organization in periodically identifying the vulnerabilities in the network security that may lead the malicious traffic from public internet to your organization. Deep understanding about the organizational objectives, risk management priorities and the diverse needs of stakeholders helps the firewall auditor in effective audit performance. Firewall rule management is critical and needs a higher level of accuracy as the hackers and/or cybercriminals are constantly looking for vulnerabilities over the internet and if the firewall rules are not specified accurately, it may open a door for hackers to exploit the network security of your organization.
As it is said that the security is not a product but an ongoing process, Graxo’s skilled and highly experienced teams make sure to continuously help you in fixing bugs by updating security of your organization’s critical information and analyzing risk gaps according to the compliance standards. From identifying the unique risks facing your business to making your firewall secure according to the compliance standards, Graxo consultants help you in keeping the network of your organization secure by recognizing the impact and severity of the vulnerabilities that can be a threat and may take leverage to compromise the functions of your organization. The audit report includes all the required information with the recommendations on how to fully guard the firewalls so that no hacker can gain unauthorized access to compromise the systems.
The firewall auditing process involves the following steps:

• Gather the key information about the target organization including the hardware’s, software’s, policies, and risks
• Overview the details about the virtual private networks (VPN) used in the organization
• Review the firewall logs for analyzing the outgoing and incoming traffic
• Check for the installed firewall and it’s operating system’s validity and latest patches
• Review the change management policy of the organization to see if the changes are being approved, monitored, and documented
• Review the firewall rules and check if there are no such rules that may lead the malicious traffic to the organization
• Maintain a list of authorized personnel allowed to access the firewall server rooms.

Follow above steps according to the defined compliance regulations and standards such as J-SOX, FISMA, ISO-27001, PCI-DSS etc. or according to the industry standards.
We at Graxo can conduct all the defined steps to assist you in making your business more effective, secure, and strong so that you can get maximum benefit out of it. The proactive auditing team ensures the cybersecurity of our client’s organization by constantly providing auditing services and making the functions of your organization risk free and security compliant. The auditing reports by us gives a detailed overview on how and what needs to be updated to get a secure environment.