Azure Daily 2022 by Gordon

Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall

Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in public preview, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.

As application migration to the cloud accelerates, it’s common to update Azure Firewall configuration daily (sometimes hourly) to meet the growing application needs and respond to a changing threat landscape. Frequently, changes are managed by multiple administrators spread across geographies.

Graphic showing Policy Analytics product experience. The graphic highlights the experience when clicking on the Single-rule analysis tab and when selecting a single rule to analyze.

Over time, the firewall configuration can grow sub optimally impacting firewall performance and security. It’s a challenging task for any IT team to optimize firewall rules without impacting applications and causing serious downtime. Policy analytics help address these challenges faced by IT teams by providing visibility into traffic flowing through the firewall with features such as firewall flow logs, rule to flow match, rule hit rate, and single rule analysis. IT admins can refine Azure Firewall rules in a few simple steps through the Azure portal.

Read the blog and Azure Firewall documentation to learn more.

Follow these instructions to enable policy analytics on your subscriptions.

Source: Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall

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