About Policy Analyzer and Optimizer

AIOps for firewalls leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to streamline and enhance the management and security of network firewalls. By using dynamic baselines and advanced forecasting models, AIOps can detect policy anomalies and predict potential issues before they escalate, ensuring proactive maintenance and stability. One of the key functionalities of AIOps is the Policy Analyzer and Optimizer. See AIOps Insights to know more about the various other functionalities that AIOps provides.

Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices with extensive policies may have numerous duplicate or shadowed rules. Such bloated policies with unoptimized rulesets can lead to excessive consumption of device memory, delayed loading of rules, and long search duration, resulting in inefficient security policy enforcement, reduced network speeds, and extended deployment durations.

Policy Analyzer and Optimizer is an intelligent Security Cloud Control Firewall Management service that analyzes firewall policies, detects rule anomalies, and helps you understand where a policy can be optimized. Policy Analyzer and Optimizer support access control policies policies for Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center and supported Security Cloud Control-managed On-Premises Firewall Management Center data sources.

In addition, this feature can do the following:

• View policy health and optimization opportunities for the selected management center data source.

• Analyze policies on demand or rely on scheduled analysis that runs every 24 hours.

• Download analysis reports as PDFs after analysis completes.

• Use Access Control Policy Analyzer and Optimizer remediation workflows where supported.