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FireMon - watching the policy change
The value is not the audit; it is noticing the day after the audit.
FireMon's platform manages firewall policy with an emphasis on real-time visibility, which is the axis that separates the products in this cluster: not what the ruleset looks like today, but what changed and who changed it.
A point-in-time audit describes an estate that stops being accurate the moment somebody makes an emergency change at two in the morning. The rules that cause incidents are rarely the ones reviewed; they are the ones added under pressure and never revisited, and they are invisible to any process that samples quarterly.
That is the operational argument for continuous policy monitoring, and it is the same argument as change tracking anywhere else: the dangerous state is not the one you inspected, it is the one that arrived afterwards.
The product is older than the company. FireMon 1.0 was released in March 2001 while it was part of FishNet Security, and the separate business came later - which is why a founding date here means the product rather than the corporate entity, and the two are genuinely different facts.