Athena's Free Firewall Browser

athenasec writes "Firewall Browser is a free configuration analyzer (download here), released by Athena Security, which works on Cisco, Check Point, and Netscreen firewalls for searching rulebases based on address or service ranges — the way change requests are actually made. The tool is available as a free download with no limitations, user license restrictions, or registration hurdles. Users can slice and dice any firewall-related question about the network, service objects, and security rules for a multi-vendor environment from a single flexible interface. There is also this how-to guide for applying the tool to day-to-day operational tasks."

Gee whiz, thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

Gee whiz, thank you, athenasec [slashdot.org], for taking time out of your doubtless busy day to sign up for the sole purpose of hocking your wares on /.. Shit, at least Fleshlight [slashdot.org] tried submitting something we could actually use.

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[scottv67]

"Everyone using linux, run this command nao:"

No.

"Everyone using linux, sudo run this command nao:"

Ok.

PDF much?

[socsoc]

For a product that lists Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (or later) or Firefox 2.0 (or later) or PDF reader for reading HTML/PDF reports in the system requirements, there's a helluva lot of PDFs on that site.

A security company flogging wares via one of the most exploitable [slashdot.org] formats...

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[deniable]

It still doesn't beat the irony of people preventing IP theft by locking their PDFs with a cracked copy of Acrobat.

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[aztektum]

Uh, that's Adobe Acrobat that has the sec issues. NOT PDF as a format.

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[socsoc]

Oh, right, cause most of the people in the world use one of the other viewers that crash all the time.

Excel spreadsheet

[Gothmolly]

You mean your network guys don't just have 1 giant, multi-tabbed Excel file?

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[deniable]

Nah, we upgraded to Access. We've got VBA macros to alter the firewall rules.

I think I'm about to hurl.

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[Dr. Evil]

Quit now. It can only get worse.

Soon they'll have it automatically generating Visio diagrams.

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[deniable]

Bah, real managers generate rules from the Visio diagrams.

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[flyingfsck]

Oh, man, this would have been funny, if it wasn't so true...

What were the editors thinking?

[AniVisual]

What were the editors thinking?

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[ajlitt]

Moneymoneymoneymoooonaaay. Mooooooonaaaay!

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[Ant P.]

I was imagining it'd go more like this:

Paid for?

[pipatron]

So are these "articles" actually bought and paid for, or do they just manage to sneak them in to the news flow now and then through the firehose? If they are paid for, I think it would be nice with some sort of warning, maybe a small dollar-sign icon or similar, indicating that it's an ad.

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[egcagrac0]

The "sponsored article" indicator should only appear to subscribers.