Flat per firewall
£179/month per firewall (£149 from your sixth), plus the VM you run it on. No per-GB data-processing charge — the bill stops scaling with traffic.
Firewall audit · Change control
Stop auditing firewall rules once a year.
A firewall audit hunts for broad allows, missing default-deny, risky services and undocumented changes — usually long after they shipped. Enforza reviews every rule change against your compliance frameworks at publish time, advises or blocks it, and records the result as an audit event. Continuous rule review and change control, built in.
Enforza makes continuous, evidenced rule review the default. It does not replace an independent or periodic audit where your standard requires one — it makes that audit verify a controlled baseline instead of months of drift.
What a firewall audit looks for — caught at publish, not in the post-mortem
Every finding a manual rule review hunts for maps to a guardrail Enforza runs on every change. Left: what the auditor looks for. Right: how Enforza catches it first.
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Overly broad allow rules
Manual auditAn auditor hunts for any-any rules and unscoped 0.0.0.0/0 allows that quietly widened the attack surface.
With EnforzaA guardrail flags a broad egress or inbound allow the moment it is written — it must carry an L7 (FQDN / SNI) matcher or a restricted source, or the publish is advised or blocked.
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No default-deny
Manual auditA review checks that each ruleset ends in an explicit deny and does not fall through to permit.
With EnforzaEvery Enforza section defaults to drop. A guardrail catches any change that re-introduces an implicit allow before it ships.
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Risky / insecure services
Manual auditAuditors look for cleartext and legacy protocols, and management or database ports open to the world.
With EnforzaGuardrails flag allow rules for insecure legacy protocols and management/database ports that accept from 0.0.0.0/0 — caught at publish, not in the post-mortem.
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Undocumented changes
Manual auditA change-management review asks who changed what, when, and whether it was approved.
With EnforzaEvery policy change is checked against the attached frameworks and recorded as an audit event automatically — a continuous, timestamped change record.
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Rule drift from the baseline
Manual auditOver time, rulesets drift away from the secure baseline the organisation signed off.
With EnforzaYour guardrail set is the baseline. Every change is re-checked against it, so drift is caught at the moment it happens rather than discovered months later.
Define the baseline. Review on every change. Keep the evidence.
The shift-left guardrails turn firewall-rule review from a periodic project into a continuous check on every policy change.
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Define the baseline once
Compose a guardrail set from whole framework packs (PCI DSS, CIS, NIST, ISO 27001 and more), cherry-picked controls, or both. This is the standard every rule change is reviewed against.
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Review on every change
Every policy change — published from a GitHub pipeline or the console — is reviewed against the set at publish time. Advise to warn, or enforce to block a non-compliant change before any firewall sees it.
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Keep the evidence
Every review result — pass, advise, block — is recorded as an audit event. When an auditor asks how firewall-rule changes are reviewed and controlled, the record is already there.
Continuous review, without the cloud-firewall tax
The rule review and change control come with the platform — there is no separate audit tool to license, and the firewall itself is flat-priced.
Typically 60–80% less
Against a cloud-native firewall stacked with a NAT gateway at modest egress, the flat line is usually 60–80% cheaper — and the gap widens as traffic grows.
Audit tooling included
Guardrails, audit events and all 25 framework packs are part of the platform. No separate firewall-audit product to buy and integrate.
Firewall audit & change control — common questions
What is a firewall audit?
A firewall audit is a review of your firewall ruleset against a security standard or baseline — checking for overly broad allow rules, missing default-deny, insecure or unnecessary services, undocumented changes and drift from the approved configuration. Traditionally it is a periodic, manual exercise. Enforza turns the rule-review part of it into a continuous check: every rule change is reviewed against your compliance frameworks at publish time, and each result is recorded.
How does Enforza automate firewall rule review?
You compose a guardrail set from the bundled framework packs (25 packs, 210 firewall-applicable controls) as your review baseline and attach it to a policy. On every change, Enforza reviews the rules against that set — flagging broad allows, missing default-deny, insecure services and other findings a manual review would hunt for — and either advises or, in enforce mode, blocks the change before any firewall sees it. The review happens on every change, not once a year.
Does this replace an independent firewall audit?
No, and it shouldn't. Many standards require an independent or periodic review by someone other than the person who made the change, and an external assessor brings judgement a ruleset check cannot. What Enforza does is make that review far less painful: the day-to-day rule changes are already continuously checked and evidenced against your frameworks, so the periodic audit is verifying a controlled baseline rather than untangling months of undocumented drift.
How does Enforza support firewall change management?
Change management asks that ruleset changes are reviewed, approved and recorded. Enforza checks every change against your attached frameworks before it ships — advising or blocking — and records the result as an audit event automatically. Run it as policy-as-code through a pipeline and the change also carries your normal review and approval workflow around it. The result is a controlled, evidenced change process for firewall rules.
What does Enforza record for an audit trail?
Every compliance check on every policy change: the controls evaluated, what passed, what was advised, and any enforce block that rejected a change before it reached a firewall. That gives you a continuous, timestamped record of how firewall-rule changes were reviewed and controlled — the evidence a change-control or network-control audit asks for.
How much does Enforza cost?
Enforza is a flat per-firewall licence — £179/month per firewall, dropping to £149 from your sixth — plus the VM you run it on, with no per-GB data-processing charge. Against a cloud-native firewall stacked with a NAT gateway, the flat line is typically 60–80% cheaper at modest egress. The guardrails, audit events and all 25 framework packs are part of the platform, not a paid add-on.
Review on every change.
Make the firewall audit a formality.
Continuous rule review against your frameworks, advise or block on every change, and a timestamped audit trail — at a flat per-firewall price with no per-GB tax. Start free, no card.