AlgoSec announces support for privileged access management to enhance security management and reduce network attack surface

19 February 2019 – AlgoSec, the leading provider of business-driven network security management solutions, has introduced the AlgoSec Security Management Solution version 2018.2. The new version features support for privileged access management solutions, enabling customers to further enhance their organization’s security management processes with centralized control of device credentials and privileged accounts.

AlgoSec 2018.2 delivers seamless access to security devices protected by privileged access control solutions, with no need to duplicate or save those devices’ account access credentials externally. It also includes extended support for DevOps and enhanced support functions for a range of market-leading security controls, to accelerate automation of network security management while minimizing the organization’s attack surface.

“With support for privileged access control solutions, customers can now take a business-centric approach to security policy management that ensures agility and continuity, while maintaining a strong security and compliance posture across all of their strategic assets and privileged accounts,” said Omer Ganot, Product Manager at AlgoSec. “The range of new features and enhancements in version 2018.2 further extends AlgoSec’s business-driven security management capabilities, which optimize agility, security and compliance across today’s hybrid enterprise networks.”

Key new features introduced in AlgoSec version 2018.2 include:

Support for CyberArk Privileged Access Security SolutionAlgoSec version 2018.2 gives access to security devices protected by CyberArk’s solution without duplicating or saving those devices’ access credentials, helping joint customers maintain centralized control of all privileged accounts and credentials.

Enhanced support for Cisco, VMware, F5, Fortinetand Juniper devices

• Extended change management for Cisco Firepower devices controlled by the Firepower Management Center, giving full automation and end-to-end provisioning
• Extended change management support for VMWare NSX Distributed Firewalls, enabling rules to be automatically added, modified, disabled or removed from policies
• Seamless integration with Cisco Tetration, enabling automation of micro-segmentation projects; also reduces attack surface by combining endpoint and network security
• Extended support for F5’s BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager module
• Enhanced integration with FortiManager security policies, enabling fully automated management of related Fortinet firewalls managed by FortiManager
• Enhanced workflow automation for Juniper SRX firewalls

New integrations with External Application Deployment Systems for DevOpsDevOps can deploy new applications and manage their connectivity with new APIs for application, flow and object editing, and for user / role permission management. APIs are available for Ansible, Puppet and Chef

Optimized user experience2018.2 features a new, dedicated UI for troubleshooting results of traffic simulation queries, helping users to fine-tune their network maps and achieve automation faster

The AlgoSec Security Management Solution version 2018.2 is generally available.

About AlgoSecThe leading provider of business-driven network security management solutions, AlgoSec helps the world’s largest organizations align security with their mission-critical business processes. With AlgoSec, users can discover, map and migrate business application connectivity, proactively analyze risk from the business perspective, tie cyber-attacks to business processes and intelligently automate network security changes with zero touch – across their cloud, SDN and on-premise networks. Over 1,800 enterprises, including 20 of the Fortune 50, utilize AlgoSec’s solutions to make their organizations more agile, more secure and more compliant – all the time. Since 2005, AlgoSec has shown its commitment to customer satisfaction with the industry’s only money-back guarantee.

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