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Managed firewall is a managed security service which provides firewall configuration, administration, monitoring, report generation, support and onsite installation and the use of a firewall system consisting of firewall equipment and related software owned, maintained and supported by the company for customers with internet access. Two types of managed firewall are available in the marketplace like- managed enterprise firewall for customers with internet dedicated services or customer provided dedicated internet access with bandwidth of grater and managed business firewall for internet dedicated access services or customer provided dedicated internet access with bandwidth up to a maximum level of T1.
Except where explicitly stated otherwise, the following description of service and conditions of service apply to both managed enterprise firewall and managed business firewall. Mainly, the managed firewall offer the services of installation, configuration, firewall administration, monitoring, reports, URL blocking, configuration backups, support and maintenance and managed enterprise firewall security scan.
In the installation section, before installation, customer must complete and provide the appropriate, current configuration downloading from the internet that carries the option for enterprise packages, for managed enterprise firewall configuration web form, for business packages and the managed business firewall configuration wizard. Company will configure managed firewall in accordance with customers configuration submission. Customer is responsible for confirming that its firewall system is configured in accordance with customer performances prior to and activation of managed firewall. After completing the installation and upon customer request, company or the service provider will administer the firewall system, modified firewall rules and update network configuration.
Managed enterprise firewall allows unlimited administration of the firewall system. As well as the company also monitors the CPU utilization of customers firewall system on per day of month. In the other hand, managed firewall provides customer category which is defined URL blocking utilizing the surf control database. The service includes surf control reporting available at the website of the service provider.
The company of managed firewall remotely installs firewall system patches, bug fixes and software upgrades when approved for general distribution to company customers. In the event of firewall system failure, company may either dispatch a technician to repair the firewall system at customers site or replace the firewall system with one of comparable or better functionality like- if a firewall failure is discovered during companys normal business hours, company will make commercially reasonable efforts to ship a replacement firewall system or component thereof to customer by the close of that business day.
