Firewall / IPS / IDS Configuration Tips and Tricks and more..: Open Source / free Firewall auditing software

Friday, March 18, 2011

Flint is the Open Source / free Firewall auditing software

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Flint examines firewalls, quickly computes the effect of all the configuration rules, and then spots problems, so you can:

Clean up rusty configurations that are crudded up with rules that can't match traffic.

Eradicate latent security problems lurking in overly-permissive rules.

Sanity check changes to see if new rules create problems.