Network segmentation is a key defense-in-depth strategy for enterprises today. It segregates and protects key company data and limits attackers’ lateral movements across the corporate network. It is also effective in reducing the scope of audits for regulations such as PCI-DSS. But managing the firewall rules that enforce your network segmentation is challenging – and the more segments you have the more firewalls you need to deploy and manage. This inherent trade-off between security and complexity often results in under-segmented networks, which are not as secure as they should be.
Easily define and enforce network segmentation
AlgoSec makes it easy to define and enforce network segmentation throughout your network and across all leading firewall platforms. With AlgoSec you can quickly validate that your existing network security policy does not violate your network segmentation strategy, block critical business services, and meets compliance requirements. AlgoSec will also proactively check every proposed firewall rule change request against your segmentation strategy to ensure that it doesn’t break it or introduce risk.
With AlgoSec you can:
- Easily define allowed traffic between your network segments
- Proactively assess the impact of every change on the network segmentation strategy
- Ensure changes adhere to the network segmentation strategy and compliance requirements
- Support software-defined micro-segmentation on platforms such as Cisco ACI and VMWare NSX
The Business Impact:
- Easily define and continuously enforce your network segmentation strategy across your heterogeneous environment
- Effectively limit the lateral movement of cyber attackers across your network
- Protect access to key financial and business assets
- Reduce the scope of a regulatory audit and compliance requirements
Relevant Resources
Segmenting your Network for Security
Segmenting the network is one of the foundations of a sound security strategy. Hear expert penetration tester Mark Wolfgang explain how to strategically segment the network for security, and enforce it using automated security policy management.
How to Structure Your Security Policy in a Segmented Network
In this lesson, Prof. Wool presents a simple strategy for future-proofing your network segmentation policy—without compromising on security.
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Mitigating Gartner’s Network Security Worst Practices
This collection of essays by AlgoSec experts, takes a deep dive into Gartner’s network security worst practices, and examines how they can be mitigated using automated security policy management.
