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Learn what any-any firewall rules allow, why broad permit rules create risk, and how to replace them with narrower access without disrupting applications. Any-any firewall rules: risks, examples, and how to fix them Why broad permit rules are hard to remove During a firewall cleanup, one legacy rule often becomes the rule nobody wants to touch. It permits traffic from any source to any destination, perhaps over any service, but the ticket that created it is years old. Several applications still show hits, yet ownership is unclear. Removing it could interrupt a payroll batch, a monitoring connection, or a disaster-recovery path. Leaving it untouched preserves access no one can clearly justify. An any-any firewall rule uses wildcard values for source and destination and may also match any service or application. Its effect depends on the action and the rest of its scope. An allow-any-any rule can permit a very broad set of flows within its zones, interfaces, direction, schedule, and rule order. A deny-any-any rule may instead serve as a catch-all control after specific allows. The practical question is not whether the rule contains "any." It is whether permitted access is broader than the documented business need and whether the team has enough evidence to narrow it safely. Schedule a Demo Common any-any rule patterns and what they mean Rule pattern Practical meaning Review priority Allow: any source -> any destination -> any service or application A broad set of flows can be permitted within the rule's zones, interfaces, direction, schedule, and order Highest priority. Map traffic, applications, owners, and exceptions before replacing it with specific rules Allow: any source -> a specific destination and service The destination is bounded, but the source may be wider than the business need Validate actual callers, source groups, identity, and zones; narrow the source when justified Allow: a specific source -> any destination or any service The source is known, but destinations or services may still be broader than needed Review destinations, ports, applications, and segmentation intent; split the rule when evidence supports it Temporary broad permit constrained by a zone, interface, schedule, or change window The rule may support migration or troubleshooting, but it can become permanent through neglect Require an owner, expiration, logging, approval, rollback, and post-change review Deny: any source -> any destination -> any service A catch-all deny can enforce default-deny behavior after specific allow rules Confirm vendor semantics, rule order, same-zone behavior, and logging The first pattern deserves urgent review, but urgent review does not mean immediate deletion. A broad permit may carry years of undocumented dependencies. The final deny pattern is different: because the action is deny, it may express a default-deny policy. Confirm rule order, zones, interfaces, same-zone behavior, implicit rules, and logging before drawing conclusions. Vendor and platform semantics can change how the same-looking entry behaves. Schedule a Demo How to find what depends on the rule Start with the policy itself. Review the source, destination, and service fields , then confirm the action, application, zones, interfaces, direction, schedule, and position in the rulebase. A rule that looks universal in a spreadsheet may still be constrained to a specific zone pair or interface. Next, combine traffic logs, hit counts, flow data, topology, change tickets, exception records, and configuration history. There is no universal safe observation window. The evidence should cover normal operations and less frequent activity such as quarterly close, maintenance, failover, disaster recovery, or a migration that is still winding down. A quiet rule is a review candidate, not proof that the access is unnecessary. Traffic is only half the evidence. Map observed flows to application dependencies , identify application and rule owners, and ask whether the business service still needs the access. If no one owns a rule, that is a governance gap, not proof that the connection is obsolete. Firewall policy risk analysis can help prioritize the investigation, but the final decision still needs business justification and an accountable approver. Schedule a Demo How to replace an any-any allow rule without disrupting applications A firewall policy cleanup project is safer when the broad rule remains available while narrower replacements are validated. Use a controlled sequence: Confirm the rule's actual scope. Record the action, wildcard fields, zones, interfaces, schedule, direction, order, and any related objects. Build the evidence set. Correlate representative traffic with topology, application records, owners, tickets, exceptions, maintenance processes, and failover paths. Design specific replacement rules. Create entries for approved application flows with bounded sources, destinations, services, applications, schedules, and owners. Place and test the replacements. Position specific allows before the broad rule, validate the proposed path, and use simulation or staged testing where the environment supports it. Monitor with rollback ready. Watch allowed and denied traffic, application behavior, and operational alerts during the change window. Keep a tested way to restore the prior state. Disable or expire the broad rule. Take this step only after dependencies are validated, accountable owners approve the change, and the evidence is preserved through governed firewall changes . In practice, a migration leftover may become three narrower rules: one for backup traffic, one for monitoring, and one time-limited vendor connection. This reduces unnecessary scope while giving each flow an owner, purpose, and review path. It also makes the next audit or recertification cycle easier because the business reason is visible in the policy record. Schedule a Demo How to keep broad rules from returning The easiest any-any rule to fix is the one that never becomes permanent. Access requests should identify the application, owner, source, destination, service, business justification, expected duration, and rollback plan. Temporary access needs an expiration date or schedule. Retained exceptions need an owner, approval record, and review date. Logging should be planned when the rule is created, not added only when cleanup begins. Periodic review should also look beyond technical rule status. Application-centric rule recertification asks whether the application still exists, whether each connectivity flow remains necessary, and whether the owner approves, changes, or removes it. That context supports audit readiness and reduces repeated investigation because ownership, business justification, exceptions, and prior decisions are easier to trace. Schedule a Demo How AlgoSec Horizon supports application-aware cleanup AlgoSec Horizon helps security and network teams connect broad access rules to the applications, flows, owners, risks, and change records behind them. That platform context can reduce manual correlation across firewalls, cloud controls, tickets, and spreadsheets while keeping remediation decisions governed. For any-any remediation, teams can use that context to identify and prioritize overly permissive access, validate which applications depend on a rule, and preserve ownership, business justification, approvals, exceptions, and review evidence. AlgoSec Horizon also supports application-centric rule recertification, moving the conversation from "does this rule have hits?" to "which application needs this flow, who owns the decision, and should the access be approved, changed, or removed?" See how AlgoSec Horizon helps teams identify overly permissive rules, understand application dependencies, and manage policy cleanup with governance. Schedule a Demo Common questions Is every any-any firewall rule dangerous? No. The action and remaining scope matter. A broad allow rule can be overly permissive, while an explicit deny-any-any rule may be a normal catch-all control. Review zones, direction, services, order, and vendor behavior before assigning risk. How much traffic history should you review? There is no universal period. Choose evidence that covers normal operations plus less frequent activity such as maintenance, quarterly processing, disaster recovery, failover, and seasonal workloads, then validate the findings with application owners. Are 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0 cloud rules the same as any-any rules? They are related examples of broad scope, but they are not identical. Cloud security groups, network security groups, and firewall policies can differ in state, direction, hierarchy, priority, and service semantics. Compare the business effect and exposure, not only the syntax. Can an any-any allow rule be removed automatically? Tooling can help surface candidates, correlate evidence, and support a governed workflow. The removal decision should still validate applications, owners, exceptions, risk, testing, monitoring, approval, and rollback before access is disabled. 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Explore micro-segmentation: a powerful security strategy. Discover real-world examples, top solutions, and key benefits for enhanced security and reduced risk. Micro-segmentation: Examples, solutions & top benefits Micro-segmentation: What it is, how it works, benefits Micro-segmentation means breaking down enterprise networks into multiple segments and using security policies to dictate how the data and applications in each segment will be accessed. These determinations are made by limiting traffic based on zero trust and least privilege principles. It provides a viable solution to flawed network security policies that weaken enterprise security. A micro-segmentation strategy enables organizations to reduce the size of their attack surface and make their networks safer against potential breaches. It also allows them to improve incident response, contain the impact of breaches, and maintain compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Schedule a Demo The need for micro-segmentation All organizations must protect their data centers with robust and effective firewall policies. Without these policies and associated security controls, smart and devious cybercriminals can easily hack into enterprise networks and systems. Micro-segmentation provides an effective way to install strong, clean, and easily-manageable security policies that help to create a more secure on-prem or hybrid cloud environment. This environment can keep traffic safe and block potential breaches from corrupting servers or compromising data. Moreover, creating multiple logical segments that are isolated from each other and enforced with least-privileged access keeps threat actors out of the network and also helps to contain a breach if it does happen. Schedule a Demo How micro-segmentation works Micro-segmentation can be applied in both on-prem data centers and cloud environments. It isolates network workloads which enable security teams to create security policies. These policies dictate the type of traffic passing in and out of each micro-segment. The policies are used to manage and create secure network segments and determine how these segments or zones will be accessed. They dictate how applications and workloads will access the resources they need, how they will share data within a system, and in which direction. Micro-segmentation also enables security teams to determine what kind of security or authentication measures are required for the environment. There are three main micro-segmentation approaches. Micro-segmentation works differently depending on which approach is adopted. Agent-based/host-based micro-segmentation Agent-based micro-segmentation utilizes a software agent deployed on the workload. It doesn’t rely on static network-level rules based on network ports or IP addresses. The agent allows security teams to enforce granular isolation, better control individual hosts, and implement automated segmentation policies with human-readable labels. Agent-based micro-segmentation security solutions are infrastructure-independent so they can be deployed across both data center and cloud infrastructure. One drawback of the method is that not all workloads can have an agent installed on them. Also, attackers can exploit the trust in the network with host firewall-based micro-segmentation. Network-based micro-segmentation Network-based micro-segmentation leverages the network infrastructure to enforce security policies. The policies are configured and enforced using access control lists (ACLs) or IP constructs. There’s no need to deploy agents on workloads. A drawback of this method is that the policies can only be enforced per endpoint, so network firewalls cannot distinguish between legitimate software and malware and will therefore block or allow both. Also, the policies are static, which can cause performance issues in more dynamic (e.g., cloud) environments. Finally, the approach can be complicated to manage when more granular micro-segments and a higher number of firewall rules are created. Hypervisor-based micro-segmentation This method depends on virtualized environments and hypervisors to create overlay networks and enforce micro-segmentation. The approach does not require network hardware changes. Also, its policy constructs are easy to learn for security teams. The chief drawback of the approach is that it doesn’t support bare metal servers, container workloads, or public cloud environments. Also, it doesn’t provide host-level visibility into its software, processes, vulnerabilities, etc. Schedule a Demo Examples of micro-segmentation One common example of micro-segmentation is the separation of development and testing environments from production environments. Granularly limiting the connections between these environments prevents careless or dangerous activities, such as using sensitive/live data for testing. Other examples include: Application micro-segmentation: Restricting access to sensitive data in applications to prevent unauthorized use or malicious exfiltration User micro-segmentation: Leveraging user identity services to control access to applications and services Tier-level micro-management: Separating application components to allow only authorized users to access specific components and keep unauthorized users out Schedule a Demo Network segmentation vs. Micro-segmentation Network segmentation divides the enterprise network into multiple security zones. In traditional data center environments, network segmentation is usually accomplished using firewalls, VLANs, and access control lists (ACLs). In more modern, cloud-based environments, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, and Security Groups (SGs). Microsoft Azure, for example, provides numerous network segmentation options, such as subscriptions (platform-powered separation between entities), virtual networks (isolated and secure networks to run virtual machines and applications), network security groups (access control mechanisms to control traffic between resources within a virtual network), and Azure firewall (a cloud-native stateful firewall-as-a-service to filter traffic flowing between cloud resources, the Internet, and on-premise). Regardless of the environment type, the zones created with network segmentation consist of multiple devices and applications. Admins can set access controls that permit only specific traffic between zones. Micro-segmentation is a more granular form of network segmentation. It involves placing each device or application within its own logically isolated segment instead of simply breaking a network into multiple, large segments. It thus provides more granular visibility and greater control than network segmentation. Unlike network segmentation which breaks the network based on north-south traffic (traffic running between clients and servers and crossing the security perimeter), micro-segmentation focuses on east-west traffic that moves laterally across and within the network. Moreover, it usually uses software policies and software-defined networking (SDN). With SDN, all network traffic is routed through an inspection point (e.g., a next-generation firewall) that can identify an attacker’s lateral movement and block inappropriate accesses to the network and its resources. Some SDN solutions, such as Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), can automatically assign endpoints to logical security zones called endpoint groups (EPGs). These EPGs may have a contract that is used to control traffic flow between EPGs within the ACI fabric. Schedule a Demo Network segmentation challenges and how micro-segmentation Helps Dividing a network into multiple smaller segments can improve both its security and performance. Effective network segmentation allows security teams to spot an attack and act early to mitigate its impact and prevent its spread across the network. Even so, it can be challenging to implement network segmentation. For one, dividing the network into many VLANs and subnets requires a lot of manual effort. Also, the network may need to be re-architected, which can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. Micro-segmentation is a better and easier approach to securing a network, especially if host-based micro-segmentation is adopted. This is because the host-based approach is infrastructure-independent, provides more granular control, and enables micro-segmentation based on human-understandable policies instead of static network-level rules. Plus, the model can be deployed across both, cloud and data center environments without “coupling” to them. In addition, it decouples security policy enforcement from the physical infrastructure, simplifying administration and allowing more granular control. Also, it does not require network re-architecting so it is less time-consuming, less complex, and more cost-effective than network segmentation. Schedule a Demo Micro-segmentation: Essential for zero trust security Micro-segmentation is increasingly used to implement zero trust security . This new security model considers all users and devices untrustworthy by default. To gain access to network resources and become “trusted”, the user or device must meet the network’s conditions, for example, undergo a virus scan or complete multi-factor authentication (MFA). The zero trust model enables organizations to move away from traditional perimeter-based network security which is inadequate for modern-day remote workers and cloud environments. And micro-segmentation supports the model by: Dividing the network into smaller zones Creating a mini-perimeter around each endpoint to secure it individually Providing enhanced network visibility and stronger access controls In sum, zero trust, and micro-segmentation work in tandem by securing workloads in dynamic environments and preventing the lateral movement of unauthorized users in the network. Schedule a Demo The top 7 benefits of micro-segmentation The need for micro-segmentation is increasing because it provides all these benefits: Effective security through enhanced endpoint protection Micro-segmentation provides effective and cost-efficient security, particularly in modern network environments that are complex, dynamic, and fast-expanding. By logically dividing the data center into distinct security segments, it enables security architects to define security controls for each segment. This then reduces the size of the attack surface and enables the organization to better resist attacks or intrusions. Protection against network-based threats Micro-segmentation protects networks against network-based threats like DDoS attacks and WiFI attacks. It also allows admins to implement robust controls to restrict the flow of traffic on detecting a threat. Protection for cloud workloads and data Micro-segmentation can secure dynamic cloud systems, workloads, and data. With granular microsegments, security teams can easily monitor cloud traffic, identify suspicious or malicious traffic, and respond quickly once they detect dangerous breaches. Protection from advanced persistent threats (APTs) Individual micro-segments contain security checkpoints that help to keep cyber threats from spreading across the network. So, even if one part of a network is compromised, attackers cannot move laterally and reach or persist in other parts of the network. Thus, micro-segmentation protects the network from APTs. Improves breach containment Even if the network is breached, security staff can contain its impact with micro-segmentation. By monitoring traffic against secure policies, they can reduce the impact of a breach as well as their response time. Support for centralized policy management Organizations can use micro-segmentation to create and enforce granular security policies and to centralize policy management across networks. Without it, they would have to manually manage policies across a large fleet of devices and resources, which is a complex and time-consuming task. In addition, they can enforce zero-trust security policies, where access is allowed based on need, which can reduce the organization’s cyber risk. Endpoint separation enables regulatory compliance Micro-segmentation using the host-based approach helps isolate separately-secured endpoints, allowing security staff to easily control the traffic in systems that are subject to regulations. Policy granularity and visibility ensure that distributed devices are always protected by unified network security and also reduce the risks of non-compliant usage. Schedule a Demo Near-effortless micro-segmentation with AlgoSec By utilizing AlgoSec’s micro-segmentation method of network security, businesses can immediately feel safer against possible hackers and potential data breaches. Our application workload security platform will secure your compute instances across any infrastructure and any cloud. It will also enable trusted access through automated, exhaustive context from various systems to automatically adapt security policies. But there are always obstacles when installing new systems on existing servers, whether it’s evolving the firewalls already in place to accept the micro-segmented data center or navigating possible network segmentation pitfalls. Our team can work with you all the way from strategy to execution to ensure these challenges are met and handled with ease so your security improves and your data is confidently protected. We will make sure that all your segmentation policies will be applied beyond the native software and hardware sensors, extending them to all supported on-premise, cloud, and SDN technologies. By using AlgoSec, you will get consistent and defense-in-depth security across your entire hybrid network. You can also maximize your current investment by leveraging existing security technologies for micro-segmentation. Plus, we will help you secure your environment in minutes rather than days or weeks. Talk to us to know more about our business-driven security management. 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Webinars Radically reduce firewall rules with application-driven rule recertification Does your network still have obsolete firewall rules? Do you often feel overwhelmed with the number of firewall rules in your network? To make sure your network is secure and compliant, you need to regularly review and recertify firewall rules. However, manual firewall rule recertification is complex, time-consuming and error-prone, and mistakes may cause application outages. Discover a better way to recertify your firewall rules with Asher Benbenisty, AlgoSec’s Director of Product Marketing, as he discusses how associating application connectivity with your firewall rules can radically reduce the number of firewall rules on your network as well as the efforts involved in rule recertification. In this webinar, we will discuss: The importance of regularly reviewing and recertifying your firewall rules Integrating application connectivity into your firewall rule recertification process Automatically managing the rule-recertification process using an application-centric approach October 14, 2020 Asher Benbenisty Director of product marketing Relevant resources Changing the rules without risk: mapping firewall rules to business applications Keep Reading AlgoSec Horizon AppViz – Rule Recertification Watch Video Choose a better way to manage your network Choose a better way to manage your network Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

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Learn how to identify unused, redundant, stale, and overly permissive AWS security groups and rules, validate dependencies, and clean them up safely. AWS security group cleanup: How to reduce risk safely How to approach AWS security group cleanup as a controlled change process To reduce AWS security group risk safely, treat cleanup as a controlled change process rather than a deletion exercise. Inventory and classify unused, redundant, stale, inactive, and overly permissive groups or rules; validate each candidate against resource associations, security group references, application dependencies, traffic, ownership, and infrastructure-as-code; then implement the smallest justified change with approval, rollback planning, and post-change verification. The goal is to remove unnecessary exposure and policy noise without disrupting required application connectivity. At scale, a cleanup finding rarely contains enough context to justify a change by itself. A group can look unattached but still be referenced by another group, while a rule with no recent traffic may support month-end processing, failover, disaster recovery, or a seasonal workload. Findings should therefore be treated as candidates for investigation, not automatic proof that access can be removed. In one account, an engineer may be able to trace a group to its elastic network interfaces and owner. Across many accounts and Regions, the same task becomes a cloud network security policy management problem. Naming standards drift, temporary exceptions outlive projects, and different teams manage infrastructure, applications, security, and audit evidence. Infrastructure as code adds another dependency. Removing a rule in the console without updating its source definition can cause it to return during the next deployment. Shared VPCs, peering, transit gateways, load balancers, and cross-account references also make a local security group view incomplete. The signals teams often misread Three signals deserve caution. “Unattached” does not always mean unreferenced. “No traffic” is only as reliable as the logging coverage and observation window. “Broad” does not automatically mean unjustified; an internet-facing load balancer may legitimately accept HTTPS from 0.0.0.0/0, while the same source on an administrative port would require a very different response. The decision needs technical evidence and business context. Schedule a Demo What AWS security group cleanup should cover Security groups are stateful controls that use allow rules for inbound and outbound traffic. Because a resource can have multiple security groups, its effective allowed access is created by the aggregated rules across all associated groups. Cleanup must therefore examine the individual group, its references, and the combined access available to the resource. Cleanup category What it means Evidence to check Typical action Unused group Not associated with a resource and not required as a reference Associations, references, ownership, infrastructure-as-code state Delete only after the dependency and rollback checks pass Redundant group Duplicates another group’s rule set in the same VPC Rule equivalence, associated resources, intended owner and standard Consolidate on an approved group, then remove the unused duplicate Stale rule References a deleted peer/shared-VPC group or a removed peering relationship Current network topology, replacement path, application owner Remove through a controlled change after confirming the reference is obsolete Inactive rule Shows no relevant traffic during the chosen observation window Logging coverage, seasonality, failover use, application dependencies Treat as a candidate; narrow or remove only with supporting evidence Overly permissive rule Allows broader sources, destinations, ports, or protocols than the workload needs Expected flows, exposure, owner, exception and business purpose Replace broad access with the narrowest justified rule AWS Firewall Manager can identify unused and redundant security groups within a defined policy scope. AWS defines redundant groups for this workflow as groups with exactly the same rules in the same VPC. It also distinguishes these findings from stale references at the rule level. Enterprise cleanup programs should keep those categories separate so that a straightforward duplicate does not receive the same review as a business-critical rule with uncertain usage. The precise definition of an unused security group depends on the tool and policy that generated the finding. Teams should review the detection criteria, observation period, resource scope, references, and deletion behavior before treating an unused finding as an approved removal. Schedule a Demo A safe AWS security group cleanup workflow A repeatable workflow helps teams move from a finding to an approved change without turning each review into a one-off investigation. Build the inventory and assign ownership. Collect groups, rules, VPCs, accounts, Regions, resource associations, security group references, tags, and infrastructure-as-code sources. Flag records with no accountable owner. Classify each candidate. Decide whether the finding is an unused group, redundant group, stale reference, inactive rule, or overly permissive rule. One candidate can fit more than one category, but the evidence and remediation path should remain explicit. Prioritize by exposure and operational value. Review internet exposure, sensitive destinations, administrative ports, unusually broad egress, policy exceptions, and application criticality. High exposure may increase urgency, while high business impact may require deeper validation. Validate dependencies and traffic. Check current associations, references, routes, application flows, change records, and traffic evidence. Work with application owners to map application dependencies before removing a rule that may support production, failover, batch, or recovery activity. Design the smallest justified change. Choose whether to delete a group, consolidate duplicates, remove a stale rule, narrow a CIDR block, restrict ports, replace an IP range with a security group reference, or document a time-bound exception. Approve and implement in controlled batches. Use maintenance windows, separation of duties, pre-change validation, and a documented rollback plan. A governed security policy change management process keeps the business reason, approval, implementation, and evidence connected. Monitor and record the result. Confirm expected connectivity after the change, watch for denied or failed flows, update the infrastructure-as-code source, and retain the finding, evidence, approval, action, and outcome for later review. Schedule a Demo What to automate and what still needs review Automation is well suited to inventory collection, normalization, duplicate detection, reference analysis, exposure checks, and candidate prioritization. It can also enforce review dates, route findings to owners, and verify that evidence is attached before a change moves forward. Approval should reflect the consequence of the decision. Removing a clearly unused development group with confirmed ownership and no references is different from narrowing access to a production database. The second case may need an application owner, a security reviewer, a maintenance window, and a tested rollback plan. Treat discovery, recommendation, approval, and implementation as distinct controls rather than one undifferentiated automation step. Schedule a Demo How to keep security group sprawl from returning Cleanup creates lasting value only when the operating model changes. Require owners and business-purpose tags, add expiration or review dates to temporary access, and use approved patterns for common workloads. Reconcile console changes with infrastructure as code, preserve change history, and schedule recertification based on exposure, application criticality, and exception status. The same policy cleanup and optimization principles that reduce firewall-rule noise can help teams prevent AWS security group findings from accumulating again. Measure the program with operational indicators rather than a deletion count alone. Useful measures include findings with confirmed owners, aging exceptions, review completion, recurrence after remediation, and changes that required rollback. These show whether the process is becoming more governable without encouraging unsafe bulk removal. Schedule a Demo How AlgoSec Horizon supports safe, application-aware AWS security group cleanup AlgoSec Horizon platform helps teams turn AWS security group findings into application-aware, governed decisions. Within the platform, Horizon ACE provides centralized visibility into AWS security group policies across VPCs, Regions, and accounts. Teams can identify unused AWS security group rules, assess risky policies and affected assets, and map cloud application dependencies and traffic flows before deciding whether access should be retained, narrowed, or removed. Teams can then edit or remove supported rules and use governed change workflows to analyze risk, implement approved changes, and validate the result. Across hybrid environments, Horizon connects AWS security group decisions with broader application and on-premises policy context, helping teams prioritize risk reduction without treating every cleanup finding as an automatic deletion. Schedule a Demo Frequently asked questions What is the difference between an unused group and an unused rule? An unused group is a group-level finding, typically based on associations, references, and the criteria of the tool or policy that identified it. An unused or inactive rule is a rule-level finding that needs traffic, dependency, and business-purpose review even when the group itself remains in use. How long should teams observe traffic before removing a rule? There is no universal window. Choose one that accounts for logging coverage, scheduled jobs, seasonal demand, failover, disaster recovery, and the application’s change cycle. A quiet period is supporting evidence, not proof by itself. Can AWS security group cleanup be automated safely? Discovery, classification, evidence collection, and low-risk recommendations are strong automation candidates. Implementation should use policy-based guardrails, ownership, approvals, testing, rollback, and post-change monitoring that match the potential business impact. See how AlgoSec Horizon helps identify unused and risky AWS security group rules, map them to application dependencies, and govern cleanup across cloud and hybrid environments. Schedule a Demo Select a size How to approach AWS security group cleanup as a controlled change process What AWS security group cleanup should cover A safe AWS security group cleanup workflow What to automate and what still needs review How to keep security group sprawl from returning How AlgoSec Horizon supports safe, application-aware AWS security group cleanup Frequently asked questions Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

The new product version release provides extended multi-cloud hybrid network visibility, reduces risk exposure and addresses new compliance regulations in a unified platform AlgoSec Security Management solution A33.10 delivers new compliance reporting and precise discovery of application connectivity The new product version release provides extended multi-cloud hybrid network visibility, reduces risk exposure and addresses new compliance regulations in a unified platform May 20, 2025 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, May 20, 2025 – Global cybersecurity leader AlgoSec has launched its new Security Management solution version A33.10, as a part of its AlgoSec Horizon platform. The new release provides better visibility across multi-cloud hybrid network environments, prioritizes risks more easily, reduces compliance effort and cuts down on manual processes by automating policy changes. As network environments grow more distributed, visibility becomes harder to maintain. The 2025 State of Network Security Report found that 71% of security teams struggle with visibility, which is delaying threat detection and response. Without comprehensive network visibility, security teams lack a clear understanding of application behavior to protect, detect, and prevent vulnerabilities. “AlgoSec is committed to updating its products to solve everyday problems that security teams face,” said Eran Shiff , VP Product of AlgoSec. “The A33.10 release ensures that our customers have clear and unified visibility into their complex hybrid network environment to reduce manual processes and ensure proper compliance reporting.” Highlights from the AlgoSec Horizon product update include: ● Visibility continues at the application level. Application security management is now faster and smarter with AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer and AlgoSec ACE ’s cloud application discovery as a datasource, allowing the creation of an application library fast. ● Security and compliance go hand in hand. To prepare security teams for audits and identify risks earlier, the new update includes a dedicated DORA and SOC2 compliance reporting, as well as built-in MITRE ATT&CK mapping. ● Streamlined application traffic view. This release introduces early availability support for AWS Load Balancer and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela), helping teams clearly see how traffic traverses across hybrid infrastructure and make more informed decisions. To learn more about the new A33.10 product release, click here . About AlgoSec AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to securely accelerate application delivery up to 10 times faster by automating application connectivity and security policy across the hybrid network environment. With two decades of expertise securing hybrid networks, over 2200 of the world's most complex organizations trust AlgoSec to help secure their most critical workloads. AlgoSec Horizon platform utilizes advanced AI capabilities, enabling users to automatically discover and identify their business applications across multi-clouds, and remediate risks more effectively. It serves as a single source for visibility into security and compliance issues across the hybrid network environment, to ensure ongoing adherence to internet security standards, industry, and internal regulations. Additionally, organizations can leverage intelligent change automation to streamline security change processes, thus improving security and agility. Learn how AlgoSec enables application owners, information security experts, SecOps and cloud security teams to deploy business applications faster while maintaining security at www.algosec.com . MEDIA CONTACT: Megan Davis Alloy, on behalf of AlgoSec [email protected]

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