Intro and goal of this post: Importance of best practice analysis How Indeni differs from manual checks and the Palo Alto Networks BPA tool. Best practices covered by Indeni Best Practice Analysis: So, you have made a big investment in security with your firewall and all the features it has enabled. But, how do you […]

This blog post gives a high-level overview of Indeni’s “Air Traffic Control for your NGFW” webinar. You can access the recording here and accompanying cheat-sheet here.  Overview PANW provides good device visibility in their UI and management tools, but unexpected obscure conditions can threaten to take traffic down. You can create your own air traffic […]

We are announcing that we are switching to a different versioning scheme along with quarterly releases. Moving to this new scheme displays our commitment to stability and predictability. We will now have fewer releases in a year and will be releasing new capabilities at the end of each quarter in March, June, September and December. […]

What is Operations Assurance? Picture an airport.  TSA has two important jobs.   The most visible job of TSA is to detect and block questionable items from entering a secured area, so people can connect and conduct business with fewer worries about safety.  Those of us who fly frequently recognize that this is important, so […]

Deployment Trends Case Study On March 20th, 2019, approximately 1 month before this post, Palo Alto Networks announced two security vulnerabilities, with a “Medium” rating, and provided fixes via upgraded releases of each of the affected PAN-OS that are currently supported.  This announcement provides a perfect test for the question: Which do businesses value more: […]

We all have moments when work-life balance collapses. Time fire-fighting takes over time dedicated for more meaningful work. Whether you’re beginning in network security or have a number of years under your belt – there are always moments when our original motivation dwindles. So how do we re-ignite our passion and career in these lack-luster […]

Five Reasons why enterprises deploy Indeni with their existing monitoring solutions. 1. Automate High Availability readiness checks Proactively automate tasks to ensure seamless failover in the event of primary firewall failure. Indeni understands how the active/active and active/passive configurations work. For example, we understand the role of the control link, data link and backup links. […]

High Availability, or HA, as most of you reading this know, is a method of configuring firewalls, routers or appliances for redundancy. HA plays a significant role in environments where system uptime is critical to business or customer traffic. It can be setup in various methods depending on vendor such as Active/Active or Active/Passive. These […]

We know you rely on Indeni to notify you of important events relating to your infrastructure. Today, we have added a few enhancements to help you get on top of these events. Head over to your Custom Report page and create a new report. You’ll see a new widget Custom Line Chart in the widget […]

Who doesn’t love playing with Lego blocks? Colorful blocks of different shapes and sizes, all fitting so nicely together thanks to “the system”. In the network and security world, vendors are now touting new automation capabilities. APIs of various kinds, SDKs and tools. Each of them, built by the vendor, for the vendor’s products. Cisco, […]

We have added audit log to give you visibility to who has changed what, where and when. We have made changes to help you create reports like device health posture, high availability readiness, security risks and vendor recommended best practices. We’ve added a cold-standby server in case the active primary server is lost, you can […]

With SSL encryption being such a crucial part of securing your network traffic, you can imagine it also is very important to your company that it works securely and optimally. The goal of this post is to cover the importance of SSL, why it should be decrypted, how it affects firewalls and lastly how Indeni […]