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#security #remotework #firewall

Our company needed to adapt our #security measures for remote work in response to the lockdown that led to everyone working from home.

Our requirement was a Firewall Monitor that will act as a single point of access for all incoming/outgoing network activities.

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We required a single point of access to monitor the following incoming and outgoing activities reported on our #firewall -

- Monitoring for connectivity issues
- Time-based analysis
- Security threats
- Network consumption
- Overall network health

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Our source of information was a #firewall log that contained unstructured data in the form of text files.

These text files (or logs) contain all our network activities, with nearly 6 million entries recorded each day! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Explodierender Kopf" aria-label="Emoji: Explodierender Kopf">

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The solution:

After exploring ETL + #dataviz tools, we implemented custom extract & load (ETL) pipelines to process unstructured firewall logs, and deployed it to an #AWS ecosystem with @Metabase as a data viz tool for the front-end.

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#DataViz options we explored.

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Solution architecture of our Firewall Monitor:

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We used tools and services like @ThePSF @awscloud @MongoDB @metabase to build a Firewall Monitor and help us create a more secure and resourceful workplace.

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Results and highlights of our process
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">Infrastructure cost as low as $25/month
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">Role-based access control
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute"> #Report sharing
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">Data points for business decisions
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">Near real-time #monitoring

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https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/firewall-monitoring-using-metabase-secure-remote-workplace-series/

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