What is Playbook?
Playbook is a web-based command center for network firewalls. From a single console, Playbook allows firewalls teams to search firewall rulesets, design access rules with full change tracking, and push them out to one, ten or one hundred devices with a single click.
Why you need it
Your existing tools were designed to manage individual firewalls. Playbook solves the challenges of controlling many devices from different vendors. It's a simple way to speed deployment, improve customer response time, slice through change management red tape, reduce operator error, and painlessly document complex policies.
Rapid Response
Use search to pinpoint the devices and access rules you need to change, using network access concepts like CIDR netmasks and application names. Design rules that apply to one firewall, a group, or your whole enterprise. Deploy those changes immediately or on a schedule with a single click.
Fully Auditable
Playbook versions every change with Subversion version control, enforces access control using transparent branching, and provides full change history. Track team progress using a convenient timeline view. Stage complicated changes, share them with your team, and count on seamless rollback to keep your network in a known-good state.
Carrier Grade
Playbook interoperates with multiple firewall vendors, including the most popular open source firewall engines. It can handle hundreds of devices, large network security teams, and years worth of searchable rule history.