Review Of Tools Of The Trade - 1483 Words

Review of Tools of the Trade For a smooth and efficient functioning of the organization’s Information Systems (IS), the hardware management tools play a vital role. Although plentiful hardware management tools and resources are necessary for the trustworthy operation of an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, however, the tools specifically to manage a firewall and scan a network, and the universally reliable knowledge bases are the three decisive requisites (Davis, Schiller, Wheeler, 2011). In this critical thinking report an assessment has been provided for one predominant tool from each of these essential categories. The first tool highlighted is SecureTrack developed by Tufin Software Technologies Ltd. is one of the principal†¦show more content†¦In the modern and dynamic organizations the management of these firewall rules and policies become extremely cumbersome and complex. As a result, the security problems may creep in, and may create havoc on the security and performance of the organizations’ IS components. An efficient firewall management tool like SecureTrack is a viable solution in these strikingly critical situations, which can help clean up the rules and policies, improve the performance of the firewalls, and eliminate any security leakage (Sohoni, 2010). Tufin (2015) in the documentation of SecureTrack Orchestration SuiteTM, provided the extensive list of features and benefits that an organization will attain by chosing SecureTrack as the firewall management solution. The foremost benefit is to provide the managers a comprehensive user interface control to manage rule s across both public and private cloud as well as the firewalls connected to the network. Further, it automates the firewall change process, therefore, strengthens the regulatory compliance with government and industry standards, and security process. It helps to mitigate the cyber threats by optimizing the policies related to security. Moreover, it minimizes the downtime of the network and the deployed applications, and provides the immensely vital factor of continuity to the business (Tufin, 2015). More importantly, according to Sohoni (2010), a company may