Today I was auditing a firewall rule set on a Cisco ASA firewall. The firewall has around 399 ACLs (Access Control Lists) comprising of 7272 ACEs (Access Control Entries). Quite a task! Unfortunately I didn’t have any tools to hand such as Cisco Security Manager or something like FirePac to audit the rules and give me some suggestions. Stage 1 was to visually look at the ACLs and spot the obvious