How does a firewall protect data?

By putting protective filters in place around your network and devices, firewalls can help to prevent a number of different security risks. These can include:

Backdoors. While certain applications are designed to be accessed remotely, others may have bugs that give potential hackers a “backdoor,” or a hidden way to access and exploit the program for malicious purposes. Some operating systems may also contain bugs that provide backdoors for skilled hackers to manipulate to their own benefit.
Denial of service. This increasingly popular type of cyberattack can slow or crash a server. Hackers utilize this method by requesting to connect to the server, which sends an acknowledgment and attempts to establish a connection. However, as part of the attack, the server will not be able to locate the system that initiated the request. Flooding a server with these one-sided session requests allows a hacker to slow down server performance or take it offline entirely. While there are ways firewalls can be used to identify and protect against certain forms of denial of service attacks, they tend to be easily fooled and are usually ineffective. For this reason, it’s important to have a variety of security measures in place to protect your network from different types of attacks.
Macros. Macros are scripts that applications can run to streamline a series of complicated procedures into one executable rule. Should a hacker gain access to your customers’ devices, they can run their own macros within the applications. This can have drastic effects, ranging from data loss to system failure. These executable fragments can also be embedded data attempting to enter your network, which firewalls can help identify and discard.

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Network Cabling Services to Simplify Your Move

It is easy to take Network Cabling Services for granted until your system is slow or becomes unavailable. Remove uncertainty and optimize your existing data, voice, wireless, Internet and cable infrastructure. With the added return of improved productivity and reduced overhead, you get the assurance of integrated error and performance management with our network monitoring solutions and managed network services.

We will rigorously test the connectivity, protocols, bandwidth, and overall performance of your existing network to provide data and a set of specific recommendations. By knowing this information, you decide what makes sense for your organization. Within your IT team, Pro Group Networks designs, implements, and manages a network performance monitoring program covering your local network, databases, applications, WAN, and local area network (VLAN). Together, we will do more than guarantee transparent performance: we will build a Network Cabling & Wiring Services that will quickly and easily serve your business.

Our friendly and competent installers are ready to know your project and your requirements.

Pro Group Networks specializes in providing Network Cabling & Wiring Services to businesses. In past decades, we have successfully served small business clients to fortune 500 companies and continue to be an industry leader in the region.

You can leave everything to us!

Pro Group Networks ensures that your workspace is wired in an organized manner from the start. As such, all sorts of expensive rewiring work can be avoided. Apart from that, we also check the line speeds to certify all the cables so that you know that your company network has been properly installed!\

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Our Voice & Data Network Cabling Services are performed by BICSI certified professionals who are TIA / EIA certified and tested with Fluke cable analyzers to provide detailed test results in PDF format to our customers in an easy to read format. This ensures a quality installed network, so you can expect maximum reliability and speed of your investment.

Firewall Alert Administration - Basic Ticketing Feature

Alert Administration
Firewall Analyzer lets you to administer the triggered alerts, so that the network administrators take care of the triggered alerts and carry out remediation if required.

Alert Administration
The triggered Alerts can be administered by the users. You can assign owner to a particular Alert, add or view Note for a particular Alert, view the history of the Alert from the time of trigger.

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Enterprise Firewall Management

In the era of globalization, more and more enterprises are making their presence across countries. Obviously, the offices, branches, factories, workplaces are spread across the globe. In this scenario, IT management related activities get fairly complex. IT/Network security for the distributed environment is not going to be an easy task.

Thus large enterprises need a solution capable of supporting an Enterprise Firewall Architecture. Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) are also in need of a scalable, distributed solution along with secured and exclusive segmented views for their clients. MSSPs require a solution that can be deployed to take care of a block of geographical area.


Multi-national enterprises and MSSPs lookout for a solution with the following features:

Centralized monitoring
Truly scalable to meet the number of devices required to be monitored
Deployed in different geographical locations
Firewall Analyzer addresses this network security need for both large enterprises and MSSPs with its distributed monitoring firewall capabilities. Firewall Analyzer’s Enterprise edition acts as a comprehensive enterprise firewall management software. This enterprise firewall monitoring tool can scale up to monitor hundreds of devices, deployed at locations across the globe. To cater to the MSSPs, it offers customizable dashboards and user-specific views.

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The future of the firewall

In the early days of the internet, when AT&T's Steven M. Bellovin first used the firewall metaphor, network traffic primarily flowed north-south. This simply means that most of the traffic in a data center flowed from client to server and server to client. In the past few years, however, virtualization and trends such as converged infrastructure have created more east-west traffic, which means that, sometimes, the largest volume of traffic in a data center is moving from server to server. To deal with this change, some enterprise organizations have migrated from the traditional three-layer data center architectures to various forms of leaf-spine architectures.

This change in architecture has caused some security experts to warn that, while firewalls still have an important role to play in keeping a network secure, modern network perimeters have so many entry points and different types of users that stronger access control and security at the host are required. The need for an even greater multilayer approach has led to the emergence of NGFWs.

An NGFW integrates three key assets: traditional firewall capabilities, application awareness, and an IPS. Like the introduction of stateful inspection to first-generation firewalls, NGFWs bring additional context to the firewall's decision-making process.

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