Guest Post: The Need to Better Manage Security Policies in Complex Network Environments

We are faced with more apps, remote users and sophisticated threats, and with that inevitably comes more complex network security policies. The network environment continues to grow in complexity with bloated security policies consisting of hundreds, if not thousands, of rules and objects that must be managed across traditional and next generation firewalls and devices… from multiple vendors… spanning numerous geographical locations. Then add in change requests…

Traditionally, organizations rely upon manual and disjointed processes to perform compliance audits, change management and risk analysis, which are not only labor-intensive and costly, but also error-prone. That simply doesn’t cut it in today’s 24×7, 365 days/year business environment.

We need to manage security policies in a new way, so that we can improve operational efficiency, ensure compliance and business continuity, and reduce risk. And now for the elevator pitch :-)

At RSA, AlgoSec (booth # 344) will be demonstrating our latest release of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite, which provides IT security and operations teams with visibility and control of complex and geographically dispersed multi-vendor network environments through the intelligent automation of firewall policy management. The AlgoSec Security Management Suite enables organizations to automate firewall operations, simplify auditing and compliance, reduce risk and streamline the security change lifecycle across all leading traditional and next generation firewalls, routers, VPNs, proxies and related security devices.

By Sam Erdheim, AlgoSec

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