Playbook is firewall sync. It works by creating a central web console for all your firewalling devices. The console grabs your firewall rules and places them under version control, so your ...

Playbook is a VMWare virtual appliance. We give you an image, you plug it into ESX or VMWare Server and start it. It grabs an IP address, and you log in ...

A starter license for Playbook manages 3 firewalls and costs $999, with no other limitations. Pricing scales with the number of devices you have; check out our pricing page for details. ...

That’s not a question. But don’t worry. We don’t enforce license limits , other than via the gnawing guilt you will feel when your Playbook dashboard page tells you you’ve exceeded ...

Of course you can. Our evals are free, fully functional, and not time-limited. Sign up for one here . We’d like to get some information from you before we get ...

Say you have 25 firewalls. Right now, to make a rule change, you have to log into 25 devices and issue commands. Playbook acquires your firewall rules directly and ...

Most Cisco devices, including the PIX ASA. Most open source firewalls, including BSD’s excellent PF and Linux iptables. Juniper/Netscreen.

We don’t support Checkpoint yet. The big reason is we don’t know how to do it right. Checkpoint doesn’t seem to have a rule format so much as it does a ...

Why yes! Devices on our roadmap include Sonicwall, Fortinet, the built-in firewall in Vista, and Astaro. When people ask us for devices, we go figure out how to do it. If ...

Think back to Schoolhouse Rocks and “How A Bill Becomes A Law”, and you have a good idea of the process by which firewalls at Fortune 500 companies change. We designed ...

Also not a question, but you’re in luck! Playbook has a powerful, version-controlled wiki. Every device Playbook manages has a wiki page for documentation. Better yet, firewall rules themselves refer to ...

Every change you make in Playbook is tracked in the proven industry standard Subversion VCS. So there’s that. Want to see what’s happening on your team? Playbook gives you ...

Depends on what you mean by that, but probably “not yet”. Playbook makes all your rule changes traceable to business requests, which is what your auditors need to see. But it ...

YES AND THANK YOU FOR NOTICING. Under the hood, Playbook’s engine is Subversion. It’s svn revs all the way down. If you’re authorized, you can use the industry-standard open ...

Playbook does for firewall rules what software developers have been doing with their source code since the ’80s. We check code into a source control system —- Subversion, if you’re wondering. ...

It depends on the device, but the short answer is generally “by SSH using host keys, which we generate”. With Cisco devices, we SSH in and converse with the IOS command ...

Playbook has survived multiple customer audits. Also, we know a thing or two about web application security, being app security consultants ourselves. Some things to know up front:  ...

Direct blame to Thomas Ptacek, who said “this would be a great idea for a product”. The Playbook team currently includes Thomas, Craig Brozefsky, Erin Copeland, and Jeremy Rauch, with frequent ...

We’re glad you asked! At $4000 for 10 devices, over 18 months of ownership Playbook is costing you $22 per device per month. That’s $7 more than a Zune ...

Playbook is a Rails application running on Linux.