Firewall Automation & Change Management for Multi-Vendor Estates
Firewall changes are the highest-risk change most teams make, and most of them still happen over SSH with no review, no diff, and no record. OrcaMonitor backs up firewall configs, detects rule and policy drift, diagnoses IPsec and VPN faults, and proposes the exact change for a human to approve — across FortiGate, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX and MikroTik from one platform.
Problems we solve
- Rule and policy changes applied by hand, with no second pair of eyes
- No config backup or drift history, so nobody knows what changed last night
- IPsec tunnels that flap while engineers re-check phase 1 and phase 2 by hand
- Multi-vendor estates forcing a different workflow per firewall brand
- Compliance reviews that need firewall change evidence nobody collected
Supported firewall & edge platforms
- Fortinet FortiGate — discovery, config backup, IPsec diagnosis
- Palo Alto Networks — device inventory and tunnel diagnostics
- Cisco ASA — device management and firewall ops workflows
- Juniper SRX — config and IPsec command references
- MikroTik — edge and VPN workflows
- Approval-gated changes with RBAC and break-glass
Capabilities
Firewall policy & rule change automation
The agent reads the current rule base, proposes the specific rule or policy change with its blast radius, and executes it only after a human approves. Every proposal and decision is recorded, so a change is never anonymous.
Config backup & drift detection
Scheduled and change-triggered configuration backups for firewalls and edge devices, with diffs that show exactly what moved — including rules added outside your change process.
IPsec & VPN fault diagnosis
Built-in command references for FortiGate, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto and MikroTik drive a step-by-step tunnel check: IKE phase 1 and phase 2, DH group and PFS mismatch, SA lifetime and proposal differences — injected into the agent's context automatically when a ticket mentions VPN, IPsec, IKE, tunnel or crypto.
Change evidence for audits
Every firewall change leaves a chained, tamper-evident record: what the agent proposed, who approved it, what ran, and what the device returned. That is the evidence set SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS change-management controls actually ask for.
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FAQ
What is firewall automation?
Firewall automation means managing firewall policy, rules and configuration through tooling instead of hand-typed SSH sessions — including config backup, drift detection, change proposals and controlled execution. In OrcaMonitor the automation is approval-gated: the AI proposes a specific change, and a human approves it before anything runs.
How is this different from a firewall management console like FortiManager or Panorama?
Vendor consoles manage their own brand well. OrcaMonitor is vendor-neutral and works across FortiGate, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX and MikroTik in one workflow, and it starts from the alert or ticket that caused the change rather than from the device. It complements your existing firewall manager rather than replacing it.
Which firewalls does OrcaMonitor support?
Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX and MikroTik are supported today, with built-in command references for config and IPsec work. Not every verb is available on every platform, which is why the agent discovers device capabilities before acting.
Does automated firewall change management satisfy audit requirements?
OrcaMonitor produces the artifact audit controls ask for: an append-only, chained audit trail recording the proposed change, the approver, the execution, and the device response. Most teams cannot fully satisfy change-management controls without a recorded approval step, which is why we never execute a firewall change without one.
Can we automate firewall rules without letting AI change production?
Yes, and that is the default. Every mutating action is approval-gated. You can keep critical firewalls permanently approval-required, and mark only low-risk playbooks as auto-approved for specific device groups once they have a track record — with a full log either way.
See every module, pricing tier, and deployment option on the OrcaMonitor overview.