Navigating the Implications of a Firewall Policy Change
Organizations are constantly seeking ways to fortify their cybersecurity defenses. One critical aspect of safeguarding digital assets is the implementation of firewall policies. However, a firewall policy change is not a decision to be taken lightly. This blog post delves into the far-reaching implications of a firewall change, exploring its impact on security, network performance, […]
Network Automation: Transforming Critical Network Tasks
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, network infrastructure plays a pivotal role in ensuring seamless connectivity and data exchange. As businesses increasingly rely on network-dependent applications and services, the demand for reliable, efficient, and secure network management is higher than ever. This is where network automation emerges as a game-changer, offering organizations the ability to streamline […]
New Trends and Advancements to Automatize Network Security Operations
In today’s complex network environments, managing security policies and ensuring continuous network protection can be a daunting task, particularly for large enterprises with multi-vendor networks. The challenges often stem from the need to work with different vendors, outdated or missing documentation, and the sheer volume of policies and firewall devices. However, recent advancements in automation […]
Effort Gain Estimation by Automation
As each day passes, new threats in the realm of cyber security continue to emerge, making it a crucial topic for any enterprise. Despite the existence of several cyber security technologies and the promise of new ones on the horizon, there is a shortage of skilled cyber security professionals in the world to effectively implement […]
Firewall Automation and Best Practices for Automation
Firewall automation is the process of using software and tools to automate the management, configuration, and monitoring of firewalls. Firewalls are network security devices that control and monitor traffic between different networks, such as between the internet and an organization’s internal network. Firewall automation can simplify the management and configuration of firewall policies, rules, and […]
Firewall Change and Best Practices for Change Management
Change management is an important part of any IT organization. To make people about what will be happening, to make it in a controlled manner and decrease unplanned downtime every organization must be working on a good change management process. As to firewalls, firewalls are an essential security tool for protecting networks and systems from […]
Security Automation – The Absolute Need
With the increasing number of cyber attacks and security breaches, it has become essential to have security automation, automated security solutions that can detect, prevent, and respond to threats in real-time. Security automation helps organizations improve their security posture by reducing the time and effort required to detect and respond to security incidents. It also […]
Security Policy Management and MSSPs
For smaller companies that do not want to hire IT people to manage IT infrastructure, the best option is to work with IT service companies. As to security related needs there are MSSP companies all around the world and they are managing all kind of security equipment on behalf of their customers. The time required […]
Why Do Many Firewall Policy Automation Projects Fail?
With the development of new digital technologies and digital transformation the number of new policies be requested on firewalls has increased a lot. When there are high number of requests to be handled, this task becomes an operational activity. It makes sense to automate any operational activity like firewall policy changes and there is a […]
WHY AUTOMATION IS THE ONLY WAY OUT FOR EFFECTIVE POLICY MANAGEMENT?
Cyber security threats are increasing each day. One of the main protection mechanisms against cyber threats is firewall. In corporate environments multi-vendor firewall usage is generally preferred and there are at least ten virtual or physical firewalls even in small to medium sized companies. For larger global enterprises it goes beyond ten thousand of firewalls. […]