Many organizations run firewalls in an attempt to secure their network.
Unfortunately, once the firewall is setup, they tend to be forgotten. Without centralized, secure, user-friendly interfaces for firewall managment, these organizations will suffer from high admin costs and low security. FEMA's goal is to allow heterogeneous firewalls to live seamlessly in one administrative domain. The interface should be uniform across all management platforms. This will allow interface development to be implemented independently of the core processing engine, giving us the ability to deploy FEMA on several platforms without having to substantially rewrite the core processing engine.