Understand the network security policy management lifecycle, from creation to implementation and continuous review, ensuring optimal network protection and compliance. The network security policy management lifecycle ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Ensure your firewall meets all PCI DSS requirements. Learn essential best practices for configuring and managing your firewall for optimal PCI compliance. Firewall PCI DSS compliance: Requirements & best practices ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Use these six best practices to simplify compliance and risk mitigation with the AlgoSec platform White paper Learn how AlgoSec can help you pass PCI-DSS Audits and ensure Solution overview See how this customer improved compliance readiness and risk Case study Choose a better way to manage your network

Explore Algosec's customer success stories to see how organizations worldwide improve security, compliance, and efficiency with our solutions. Leading Energy Company Embraces Network Security Policy Automation Organization Energy Company Industry Utilities & Energy Headquarters California, USA Download case study Share Customer
success stories "We can demonstrate that the firewalls meet our standards." Fortune 50-listed energy company cleans up hundreds of firewall rules, gains continuous compliance. Background The customer is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. Through its worldwide subsidiaries, the company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. The company explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemicals and additives; generates power; and develops and deploys technologies that enhance business value in every aspect of the company’s operations. They are listed on the Fortune 50 and a component of the S&P 100. The Challenge The customer has over 900 firewalls throughout the world, including in several remote sites. Some of their challenges included: Overly broad firewall policies Risky firewall rules Pressure from legal and compliance teams Manual processes and difficulty implementing automation Lack of visibility into security policies throughout the network “Before AlgoSec, we didn’t manage our firewalls very well,” stated Jeremy Haynes, a Solution Architect at the energy company. “We did not have a good enforcement and validation tool to verify that policies were accurate and did not introduce unacceptable risk.” The Solution The company was in the process of migrating from their previous firewall vendor to Palo Alto Networks. They used the opportunity for a fresh start to clean up and optimize their security policies. They were searching for a solution that provided: Automation of firewall policy management Identification of layer 7 (application-based) policies Innovative features that aligned with their strategic goals Strong support for Palo Alto Networks firewalls Following an in-depth evaluation, the company selected AlgoSec’s Security Policy Management Solution, which includes AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer and AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow (AFF). AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer ensures security and compliance by providing visibility and analysis into complex network security policies. AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow improves security and saves security staffs’ time by automating the entire security policy change process, eliminating manual errors, and reducing risk. The Results By using the AlgoSec Security Management Solution, the company was able to clean up risky firewall policies, reduce misconfigurations, and dedicate more workers to business-driven innovation instead of security policy maintenance. Some benefits gained include: Compliance with internal requirements Ability to map out their network and maintain network segmentation Less time needed to maintain firewall policies Easier time managing hundreds of firewalls spread out worldwide AlgoSec enabled their network segmentation initiatives. By mapping their network, and determining what zones should communicate with each other, they were able to fix existing policies that broke segmentation rules and not break segmentation policies in the future. This helped ensure a state of continuous compliance. “AlgoSec gives us an easy to read and present view of firewall compliance. This helps our business units ensure their policies are clean. We can also demonstrate that the firewalls connected to our network, but owned by other business units, meet our standards,” according to Haynes. They have over 1,700 change requests daily and therefore automation is crucial. “The ability to work with Ansible, ServiceNow, and Palo Alto gives us the ability to automate our firewall policy creation. It does so in a manner where we do not have to worry about a policy being created that may put our organization at risk,” continued Haynes. AlgoSec helps the company to not only quickly deploy firewall policies but also ensure the security of the business. “We want to make sure our money-making capabilities can conduct their business with minimal impact and do their job. The ROI for us is our great assurance in the security of our firewall policies,” concluded Haynes. Schedule time with one of our experts

Learn cloud vulnerability management best practices for asset discovery, risk-based prioritization, remediation, verification, and audit-ready evidence What are the best practices for managing vulnerabilities in the cloud? What is cloud vulnerability management and how should teams prioritize remediation? A cloud vulnerability queue rarely explains what should happen first. A critical CVE on a test instance, a medium-severity finding on an internet-facing workload, and an overly permissive security group tied to a revenue application can sit in the same dashboard. The scanner may be accurate, but the decision still needs context. Cloud vulnerability management is the continuous process of finding, prioritizing, remediating, verifying, and reporting weaknesses across cloud workloads, configurations, identities, and access paths. The best programs combine technical severity with exposure, exploitability, business criticality, application impact, ownership, and change governance. In practice, a severity score is a signal, not the whole decision. The useful question is what is reachable, who owns it, which service depends on it, and how the team can fix it without creating a new outage or losing audit evidence. Schedule a Demo Why cloud vulnerability management is harder than traditional patching Traditional patch management still matters. Teams need to acquire, test, install, and verify updates. However, cloud network security adds more moving parts than a patch queue can show by itself. Cloud assets appear and disappear quickly, workloads move between accounts or subscriptions, and a single application may depend on VMs, containers, serverless functions, managed databases, identity permissions, and cloud firewall rules. Because of that, the same vulnerability can carry different risk depending on where it appears. A vulnerable package in a private development workload is not the same decision as the same package on an internet-facing service with access to sensitive data. Another workload may require a rebuilt image, a new deployment, a maintenance window, or a temporary compensating control. Cloud vulnerability management is broader than patching because it also includes discovery, exposure analysis, ownership, change approval, verification, and evidence. Schedule a Demo What counts as a cloud vulnerability A cloud vulnerability is not limited to a software flaw with a CVE. It can also be a vulnerable container image, an outdated dependency, a misconfigured storage service, an exposed admin port, an overly broad IAM permission, a secret in a build pipeline, or a network rule that leaves a workload reachable from places it should not be. For practitioners, the remediation path changes with the finding: patch the workload, rebuild the image, correct infrastructure as code, restrict ingress, or identify the right owner before approving a change. Schedule a Demo Cloud vulnerability management best practices at a glance A practical program turns findings into accountable work. The table below keeps the workflow simple enough to use during prioritization, remediation planning, and audit preparation. Best practice What it helps answer Evidence to preserve Keep cloud asset inventory current Which assets, services, images, and functions exist, and who owns them Asset ID, tags, account or subscription, owner, environment, business service Scan runtime and build pipelines Where findings appear in workloads, images, dependencies, infrastructure as code, and configurations Finding source, scan time, resource ID, affected package or control Prioritize by real exposure Which findings matter first based on reachability, exploitability, KEV status, and application impact Severity, KEV status, exploitability, internet exposure, data sensitivity, connectivity path Map findings to applications Which business service could be reached, disrupted, or delayed by remediation Application owner, dependency map, traffic flow, security group, NSG, or cloud firewall rule Remediate through governed change Who approves the fix, when it happens, and how rollback works Ticket, approver, change window, exception, rollback plan Verify and report Whether the fix worked and what remains for auditors Rescan result, closed ticket, updated rule, exception expiration, control evidence Schedule a Demo How to prioritize what gets fixed first Prioritization should start with technical severity, but it should not stop there. A useful risk model also looks at whether the vulnerability is known to be exploited, whether exploitation is practical, whether the resource is internet-facing, what data it can reach, and which application depends on it. CISA KEV status, exploitability, exposure, asset criticality, and business impact are stronger together than any single score on its own. In many teams, this is where cloud findings become operational decisions. A public workload that supports customer login may need attention before a higher-scored finding on an isolated lab system. A vulnerable image in a build pipeline may be less urgent than the same image already running in production. A stale security group exception may raise the priority because it creates a reachable path to a vulnerable service. Good prioritization reduces wasted effort because owners can see why a fix is requested and which service it affects. Schedule a Demo How to remediate without creating new operational risk A remediation plan should be specific about the fix, the owner, the approval path, and the evidence that will close the finding. Sometimes the answer is a patch. Sometimes it is a new container image, an infrastructure-as-code correction, a restricted ingress rule, a temporary segmentation change, or the removal of unused access. This is where security policy change management becomes part of vulnerability management. Narrowing a cloud firewall rule or removing an old exception may reduce exposure, but it can also affect an application dependency that was never documented well. Before teams change access, they should confirm the owner, review the traffic path, choose a maintenance window when needed, define rollback, and keep the ticket trail. When a vulnerability cannot be patched quickly, the program still needs a decision. Teams can restrict access, add segmentation, strengthen identity controls, document compensating controls, and set an expiration date for the exception. During an audit, that evidence shows the organization did not ignore the finding. Schedule a Demo Common mistakes to avoid The most common mistake is treating the scanner queue as the program. Scanning creates visibility, but it does not decide ownership, business impact, change timing, or proof of remediation. Another mistake is relying on severity alone. Severity is useful, but cloud exposure, application context, and reachability often determine what needs attention first. Weak tagging is another source of delay. If accounts, subscriptions, projects, clusters, and images do not identify an owner or business service, the security team becomes a detective agency. The same problem appears with exceptions: without a reason, reviewer, expiration date, and compensating control, an exception is hard to defend later. Verification matters too; a closed ticket is not proof that risk changed. Schedule a Demo How AlgoSec Horizon fits into cloud vulnerability management Cloud vulnerability findings become more useful when teams can connect them to applications, access paths, owners, and change decisions. A vulnerable VM may look like one scanner item, but the decision changes if a security group exposes it to the internet and a customer-facing application depends on the connection. This is where application dependencies and hybrid cloud security management become part of the vulnerability conversation. Security, network, cloud, and application teams need to know which service is affected, whether access is still required, what policy change would reduce exposure, and what evidence should be kept for the next review. AlgoSec Horizon helps enterprise teams connect application context, security policy visibility, risk analysis, governed change workflows, and compliance-ready evidence across hybrid networks. For cloud vulnerability management, Horizon can help teams understand how vulnerable assets relate to applications and access paths, assess policy risk before remediation changes, manage changes with governance, and preserve evidence for audit readiness. The goal is not to replace cloud scanners or patching tools. It is to add the policy and application context that makes remediation safer to plan and easier to explain. If a team needs to restrict a risky NSG rule, remove a stale security group exception, or document why a vulnerability is temporarily mitigated instead of patched immediately, AlgoSec Horizon helps connect that work to ownership, business justification, and the change record. See how AlgoSec Horizon can help connect cloud vulnerability findings to application context, exposure paths, governed remediation, and audit-ready evidence. Schedule a Demo Frequently asked questions What is cloud vulnerability management? Cloud vulnerability management is the ongoing process of discovering, prioritizing, remediating, verifying, and reporting weaknesses across cloud workloads, configurations, identities, and access paths. It includes patching, ownership, exposure, exceptions, change control, and evidence. How do you prioritize cloud vulnerabilities? Prioritize by combining severity with exploitability, KEV status, internet exposure, asset criticality, data sensitivity, application dependency, and reachability. A severity score is a useful signal, not the whole model. Is cloud vulnerability management the same as patch management? No. Patch management focuses on acquiring, installing, and verifying updates. Cloud vulnerability management is broader because it also includes discovery, prioritization, configuration fixes, compensating controls, remediation governance, verification, and audit evidence. What if a cloud vulnerability cannot be patched quickly? Document the owner, business reason, compensating controls, approval, and expiration date. Depending on the finding, teams may restrict access, segment the workload, strengthen identity controls, or schedule a maintenance window while keeping evidence for follow-up review. Schedule a Demo Select a size What is cloud vulnerability management and how should teams prioritize remediation? Why cloud vulnerability management is harder than traditional patching What counts as a cloud vulnerability Cloud vulnerability management best practices at a glance How to prioritize what gets fixed first How to remediate without creating new operational risk Common mistakes to avoid How AlgoSec Horizon fits into cloud vulnerability management Frequently asked questions Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Learn what AI-powered network security policy management is, where AI can help, and how teams can keep policy changes governed and audit-ready What is AI-powered network security policy management? ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Learn what audit-ready firewall policy evidence should include and how to connect rules, owners, approvals, risk, changes, and validation for audit readiness. How to generate audit-ready firewall policy evidence ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

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Explore Algosec's customer success stories to see how organizations worldwide improve security, compliance, and efficiency with our solutions. Global Energy Group Streamlines Change Requests Process Organization Energy Group Industry Utilities & Energy Headquarters International Download case study Share Customer
success stories "Now we can do a firewall change in around one hour. Before, it took five days or more with 20 engineers. Today, we do the same job, but much quicker, with 4 people - resulting in happier customers,” says the Security Service Delivery Manager. “One of the best things you win in the end, is the cost. With 500 changes on a firewall a month, that’s significant.” IT Integrator Gets Faster Implementation of Firewall Changes – Leading to Greater Efficiency and Lower Costs BACKGROUND The company is the IT integrator for a large energy group, which offers low-carbon energy and services. The group’s purpose is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. The IT integrator of the group designs, implements and operates IT solutions for all its business units and provides applications and infrastructure services. It includes four “families” of services: Digital and IT Consulting, Digital Workplace, Cloud Infrastructures, and Network and Cybersecurity, and Agile business solutions. CHALLENGES This large group (with 170,000 employees) had a complex network with multiple elements in the firewall. With 240 firewall change requests and 500 changes a month, they needed an easier and faster way to manage these changes, ensuring their business applications functioned properly while maintaining their security posture. The main challenges were: Large network with lots of rules. Slow execution of change requests. Change requests were very labor intensive. SOLUTION With 500 monthly firewall changes, the customer was searching for a solution that provided: Faster implementation of firewall changes. Clear workflow and easier change management processes. Comprehensive firewall support. Visibility into their business applications and traffic flows. The client chose AlgoSec for its workflow solution, requiring a tool that would help the customer seamlessly submit the request and enable the engineer to implement the optimal changes to the firewall. They implemented the AlgoSec Security Policy Management Solution, made up of AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer, AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow, and AlgoSec Horizon AppViz and AppChange (formerly AlgoSec BusinessFlow). AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer ensures security and compliance by providing visibility and analysis into complex network security policies. AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow improves security and saves security staffs’ time by automating the entire security policy change process, eliminating manual errors, and reducing risk. AlgoSec Horizon AppViz provides critical security information regarding the firewalls and firewall rules supporting each connectivity flow by letting users discover, identify, and map business applications. AlgoSec AppChange empowers customers to make changes at the business application level, including application migrations, server deployment, and decommissioning projects. RESULTS “We do the job quicker, with less people. With 500 changes on a firewall a month, that’s significant. I recommend AlgoSec as it gives a quick solution for the request and analysis,” said the Security Service Delivery Manager. By using the AlgoSec Security Management Solution, the customer gained: Greater insight and oversight into their firewalls and other network devices. Identification of risky rules and other holes in their network security policy. Easier cleanup process due to greater visibility. 80% reduction in manpower. Faster implementation of policy changes – from five days to one hour. Schedule time with one of our experts

Securely accelerate application delivery by automating application connectivity and security policy across the hybrid network estate. Solution de gestion
de sécurité AlgoSec Bienvenue! La gestion de votre politique de sécurité réseau sur les firewall à la demande et des paramètres de sécurité dans le cloud sont des exercices d'équilibriste délicats. D'un côté, vous devez réduire les risques en minimisant la surface d'attaque. De l'autre, vous devez encourager la productivité en assurant la connectivité des applications métiers essentielles. Toutefois, les processus de gestion de politique de sécurité réseau ont toujours été complexes, chronophages et criblés d'erreur. Ce n'est pas une fatalité. Que cela soit à la demande ou dans le cloud, AlgoSec facilite et automatise la gestion de politique de sécurité réseau afin de rendre votre entreprise plus agile, plus sécurisée et plus conforme et cela de façon constante. Une approche unique de la gestion du cycle de vie des politiques de sécurité AlgoSec est unique car il gère l'ensemble du cycle de vie des politiques de sécurité afin d'assurer une connectivité continue et sécurisée de vos applications métiers. Par le biais d’une interface unique, vous pouvez découvrir vous-même les exigences en matière de connectivité d'applications, analyser les risques de façon proactive, organiser et exécuter rapidement des modifications de sécurité réseau et déclasser des règles de firewall en toute sécurité, tout ceci sans intervention et orchestré de façon harmonieuse sur votre environnement hétérogène. Avec AlgoSec, vous pouvez Unifier votre gestion de politique de sécurité réseau sur des environnements Cloud et à la demande Assurer une conformité continue et réduire de façon drastique les efforts en matière de préparation d'audit de Firewall Assurer la connectivité d'applications de façon rapide et sécurisée et éviter des disfonctionnements liés au réseau Aligner les équipes de sécurité, de réseau et d'applications et encourager DevSecOps Automatiser la gestion de modification de Firewall et éliminer les mauvaises configurations Réduire le risque via une configuration de sécurité correcte et une segmentation réseau effective La solution de gestion de sécurité AlgoSec Analyse de réseau de politique de sécurité Plus d'informations Firewall Analyzer Automatisation des modifications de politique de sécurité Plus d'informations FireFlow Calculer votre ROI Livre Blanc AlgoSec Contact commercial Alexis Luc Bouchauveau Phone: +33 613 200 885
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Anywhere. Use automation to speed up and tighten your security policies Schedule a demo Learn more Watch the video Applications are at the core of digital transformation We currently are living through what we like to call the 100x revolution; networks are 100x more complex than ever, and the speed of application deployment and development has become a 100x faster. Speed and complexity are a dangerous combination for companies today and create increased risk. Frequent changes to applications in this fast, dynamic, and complex network can lead to downtime, security breaches, and compliance violations. A paradigm shift is required. Traditional policy management tools struggle with the complexity across larger hybrid networks and lack the necessary business application context. Application-centric security • Visualization of network and application connectivity • Application-aware vulnerability, risk and compliance • Adaptivity to application intent and traffic • Simplified application-focused of recertification Traditional NSPM • Visibility into network posture only • Risk and compliance detection • Reliant on policy rules • Labor-intehse rule recertification Our platform is the complete solution for delivering secure application connectivity and security policy. Explore what it’s made of! Take control of your application and security policy Horizon Security Analyzer See the whole picture Enable visibility across your hybrid network, optimize firewall rules, and prioritize risks. Firewall Analyzer solution FireFlow Automate and secure
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ObjectFlow Horizon Security Analyzer Find risky rules, firewall cleanup opportunities, and compliance gaps before they create exposure or audit issues. LEARN MORE Move fast and deliver applications quickly Security threats are increasing, even as you need to deliver faster than ever before. The AlgoSec platform enables you to securely deliver applications – without compromising on security. Work Smoothly Don’t sacrifice security or agility with broken links in the chain. The AlgoSec platform helps ensure connectivity and security policy are a part of the entire application delivery pipeline. The AlgoSec technology partner ecosystem Centrally manage multi-vendor network security policies across your entire hybrid network. Manage AlgoSec sits at the heart of the security network and integrates with the leading network security, clouds, application-dependency vendors, and DevOps solutions. Seamlessly integrate with your existing orchestration systems, ITSM systems, SIEM/SOAR, vulnerability scanners, and more - all from a single platform. Integrate Schedule a demo See it in action Visualize your entire network Discover, identify, and map your business applications and security policies. Leverage advanced AI to intelligently analyze and discover application dependencies across your network. Instantly visualize your entire hybrid network security topology, including business-critical applications and their connectivity flows. The platform utilizes AI to provide a comprehensive view of your security policies and applications, whether they are in the cloud, across the SDN, on-premises, or anywhere in between. Zero-touch change management Automate application connectivity and security policy changes – from planning through risk analysis, implementation, and validation – to avoid misconfigurations. Accelerate security policy changes while maintaining control, ensuring accuracy, saving time, and preventing errors – with zero-touch. Always be compliant Understand which applications expose you to compliance violations and risk. Always be ready for audits with compliance reports covering leading global regulations and custom corporate policies including PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, and ISO/IEC 27001. The perfect balance of visibility
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AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer delivers visibility analysis of your network applications across your hybrid network Identify compliance gaps Optimizing policy automation through effective object management Manage network objects across your on-prem and hybrid cloud estate Schedule a demo Watch a video Bring order to a disorderly network. Easily automate changes to firewall and SDN objects from a central location saving time and labor Automate object changes Learn more Reduce risk of outages and security breaches by identifying misaligned object definitions, duplicate objects and unattached objects. Reduce risk Learn more Automatically discover and gain full visibility of all firewall and SDN objects in your network in one central repository. Complete visibility for network objects Learn more Object management is one important piece of a robust security policy. See how our full solution suitecompletes the picture. End-to-end security management Security policy you can see Horizon Security Analyzer Discover, identify, and map business applications across your entire hybrid network. Learn more AlgoSec Cloud Effortless cloud management Security management across the hybrid and multi-cloud estate. Learn more Watch the video "We are much secure since we have had this product" What they say about us Network security Engineer/architect Equip yourself with the technical details to discuss with your team and managers Ready for a deep dive? Learn more Got everything you need?
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