FirewallScan vs manual firewall reviews
Manual reviews depend on who is available and how much time they have. FirewallScan applies the same rigor to every review, in minutes — so quality never depends on the calendar.
Why manual firewall reviews fall short
A manual firewall review means exporting the configuration and having an engineer read every policy, trace every object and cross-reference every zone. On a mature FortiGate with hundreds of policies, that is days of focused work — and it is only as good as that engineer's attention on that day.
Because it is so costly, manual review happens rarely. Between reviews, the configuration drifts, temporary rules calcify, and exposure accumulates unnoticed. The approach simply cannot keep pace with how often firewalls change.
- Days of effort per device, so reviews happen rarely
- Quality varies with the reviewer and their available time
- Findings are outdated almost as soon as the review ends
FirewallScan vs manual review
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Free your experts for the work that needs them
FirewallScan does not replace your engineers' judgment — it removes the mechanical, time-consuming reading so they can focus on architecture and the genuinely hard calls.
Let FirewallScan do the comprehensive first pass on every device, every time, and let your experts spend their time deciding and improving rather than scrolling through rule tables.
- Automate the tedious reading, keep the human judgment
- Comprehensive first pass on every device
- Experts focus on architecture, not line-by-line review
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