Information Security and Compliance

Key Benefits for Security and Compliance Teams
    • Instantly assess, prioritize and mitigate risks in firewall policies.
    • Automatically generate compliance reports for standards such as PCI-DSS and SOX, as well as internal corporate policies.
    • Ensure network operations teams adhere to the corporate security policy.
    • Monitor policy changes and receive instant notifications on unauthorized or risky changes.
    • Greatly reduce audit preparation time.

According to Gartner Research, "More than 95% of firewall breaches are caused by firewall misconfigurations, not firewall flaws." But assessing risk and compliance, and ensuring the proper configuration of devices, has become extremely challenging. Not only do network security policies consist of hundreds or thousands of firewall rules across multiple devices and geographies, but they are typically managed by separate operations teams who may not adhere to the corporate policy. 

Information security teams need automated solutions that provide them with continuous control over the network security policy even when executed by various teams across distributed sites.

 
AlgoSec Security Management Suite for Firewall Security and Compliance Teams

Used by more than 800 of the world’s leading organizations, the AlgoSec Security Management Suite provides security and compliance teams with visibility into and control over the entire network security policy. Containing the broadest knowledgebase of industry best practices, regulations and standards, the Security Management Suite assesses risk and compliance across all major firewall vendors and supports additional devices such as routers and VPNs.

AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) non-intrusively analyzes firewall rulesets, logs and topology information against industry security best practices and regulatory standards. AFA risk reports display and prioritize all risks in the security policy, complete with the rules that cause them and changes in risk levels.

To provide instant visibility into the compliance state of your network security policy, AFA automatically generates firewall compliance reports for regulations such as PCI-DSS and SOX, and provides actionable information for remediation. Organizations can also add their own custom policies and generate reports that demonstrate compliance to internal auditors.

AlgoSec FireFlow intelligently automates the security policy change workflow, increasing the accuracy, accountability and governance of changes. FireFlow automatically analyzes changes to ensure new firewall rules do not introduce additional risk or break compliance. To provide effective auditing, FireFlow documents each step of the approval workflow process.

 

Key Features for Information Security and Compliance Teams:

  • Comprehensive, prioritized reports of all risks, including risky rules and changes in risk levels.
  • Audit-ready reports provide instant visibility into compliance, including regulations such as PCI-DSS, SOX, ISO 27001 and NERC.

  • Intelligent Policy TunerTM tightens overly permissive firewall rules (E.g. ANY source, destination or service), maximizing security without impacting business requirements.

 

Firewall rules best practices

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  • Automated change workflows ensure every new rule adheres to the corporate security policy and audit the entire change process.

  • Policy cleanup and optimization remove unused and duplicate rules, reducing rulesets and minimizing potential threats.

  • Topology-aware capabilities assess risk across complex device groups and matrices.