Firewall

Firewalls are effective only when policies are concise, understandable, and aligned with real traffic. Many organizations face legacy rule sprawl and hidden any-any allowances.

Hoxy reviews, groups, and hardens policies; removes unused rules; and documents changes with logging and change control.

For NGFWs we focus on application control, SSL inspection where appropriate, and blocking unintended management traffic—not port blocking alone.

We finish with a policy baseline, quarterly review checklist, and alerting criteria for high-risk rules.