Misconfiguration detection
Misconfigurations — not zero-days — cause most firewall breaches. FirewallScan detects the weak rules, exposed services and insecure settings that quietly put you at risk.
What is firewall misconfiguration detection?
Misconfiguration detection is the automated identification of firewall settings that deviate from secure best practice — overly permissive policies, exposed management interfaces, missing segmentation, weak VPN parameters and disabled logging.
These issues rarely announce themselves. They accumulate quietly and are easy to miss in a manual read. FirewallScan systematically checks for them across your FortiGate configuration.
- Exposed management and admin access
- Any/any and overly permissive policies
- Weak VPN proposals and missing segmentation
Misconfiguration is the dominant cause
Industry data is consistent: the firewall problems that lead to breaches are overwhelmingly configuration mistakes, not software vulnerabilities.
99%
of firewall breaches through 2023 traced to misconfiguration
Gartner
Quietly
misconfigurations accumulate without detection
Preventable
almost all of it, with consistent review
How FirewallScan solves it
Detect, explain, remediate
FirewallScan checks your configuration against a comprehensive set of FortiGate-specific best practices and flags every deviation. Each detection comes with an explanation of the risk and the exact fix.
Because detection is automated and repeatable, you catch new misconfigurations as soon as they are introduced — not months later in an audit.
- Comprehensive FortiGate best-practice checks
- Risk explanation plus exact remediation for each finding
- Repeatable so new mistakes are caught immediately
Frequently asked questions
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