Yesterday I participated in a webinar discussing the must-do’s of network security and configuration management with SolarWinds‘ Head Geek Josh Stephens.  We discussed some best practices for managing configurations and some guidelines for firewall configs themselves.  The meat of the webinar was a demonstration of Orion NCM and the integration with Athena FirePAC.  The combined products make a dynamite solution for firewall configuration management.  You can watch the webinar online (registration required) and the slides are available here.  Check it out!