IT tools are vital to the functionality, operational resilience, and security strategy of your organization. Therefore, it's a wise idea to check the efficiency of your IT tool kits regularly.

What makes an IT tool kit efficient?

• Minimal functional overlap: Licensing multiple IT tools offering similar functionalities is wasteful and can drive up your IT spend.

• Robust data integrations: IT tools have data in the form of events, alarms, logs, or reports. Correlating data from different tools using integrations minimizes the effort needed to perform incident response, IT audits, asset management, etc.

• Simpler access management: Different IT teams might need to cooperate with each other regularly. Providing user access without breaking zero trust principles is imperative.

• Cost-effective licensing: Overpaying for bloated IT tool kits can lead to exorbitant licensing costs and complex licensing strategies.

• Centralized management: Most networks are distributed across different geographic locations. Managing distributed sites centrally adds to the efficiency of the IT tools.

Is your Firewall Analyzer console part of an efficient IT tool kit?

Firewall Analyzer equips IT teams to repel intrusions by monitoring logs, managing configurations, enabling audits, and optimizing security policies. As such, Firewall Analyzer has to work together with other IT tools. If you think your IT tool kit has room for improvement, you can upgrade your Firewall Analyzer console.

Firewall Analyzer's enterprise edition can unify Firewall management for multiple sites at a central location. This will help you standardize security policies and monitor security logs for distributed sites from a central network operations center.

You can also upgrade Firewall Analyzer to OpManager Plus: A unified IT observability solution that can monitor, manage, and analyze the network, server, traffic, and application layers of the IT stack.

OpManager Plus combines the functionalities of six IT tools into a unified interface. You can minimize tool overlap, correlate data, and manage user access under a single, cost-effective license.

Learn more about upgrading Firewall Analyzer here!