InfoSecter, the Information Dissector
One of the primary challenges of
modern network security is finding out what the firewalls are doing and why.
InfoSecter builds a model of firewall operation from the configuration files that lets you interactively browse and analyze how the firewall will apply security to packets,
so you can more rapidly and reliably find the information you need to manage your security. If you've ever spent hours trying to find the configuration rule that is blocking your traffic, or figuring out what has changed from a previous
configuration, you will find InfoSecter a hair saving tool.
The diagram below gives an overview of how elements of InfoSecter can be used to improve the security of your network environment.
InfoSecter analyzes configurations from a variety of firewall
vendors including Cisco, Juniper, and CheckPoint.
InfoSecter builds an operational model
from firewall configuration files.
Perl or shell scripts can be used
to generate Policy Constraints.
Perl or shell scripts can parse
the analyzer reports to create
specialized reports or actions.
InfoSecter Querent is a graphical editor that you can use
to create and manage a library of operational constraints.
Analyzer is the heart of the InfoSecter tool set.
It performs firewall operational modeling and analysis.
It is invoked from other InfoSecter elements, or it can
be called directly from customer scripts.
InfoSecter Analyzer creates
analysis reports in XML.
Reports can be saved to keep
a history of firewall operations.
InfoSecter Visualizer gives you an
interactive interface to browse
InfoSecter Analyzer results.
Description of how sets of packets should be processed.
