http://www.darkreading.com/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223100907 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Mar 01, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA Conference 2010 -- Matasano Security here today rolled out a new Web-based open-source tool that scans for any firewall rules that are outdated, redundant, or could potentially expose a network to security threats. "Flint makes sure nothing in [your firewall changes and configurations] creates a security problem," says Tom Ptacek, principal with Matasano, a security consulting and research firm. Ptacek says compliance requirements -- namely PCI -- and secure software development efforts are forcing organizations to take a closer look at their firewall configurations. "They are starting to take their internal apps a lot more seriously ... as they review their apps, they have a review associated with firewall configurations," Ptacek says. "Apps get retired and get new revs. As part of their assessments, they are going back to the firewall rules that let those apps run." Flint is the second product offering from Matasano: Its first product, Playbook, is a VMWare-based virtual appliance that centralizes and synchronizes the control and management of multiple vendors' firewalls. Flint can work with Playbook by ensuring any changes to firewalls are correct and don't open security holes into the network, according to Matasano. Flint also can run as a standalone tool for checking firewalls. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Tue Mar 02 2010 - 23:52:12 PST
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