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Understand the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Learn key requirements, best practices, and how to achieve and maintain FISMA compliance. FISMA compliance defined: Requirements & best practices ------- ---- 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 continuous compliance Solution overview See how this customer improved compliance readiness and risk management with AlgoSec Case study Choose a better way to manage your network

Proper firewall configuration is essential for a secure network Explore how to overcome challenges and learn tips for effective firewall configuration What is Firewall Monitoring? Yes, AlgoSec supports continuous compliance monitoring. As organizations adapt their security policies to meet emerging threats and address new vulnerabilities, they must constantly verify these changes against the compliance frameworks they subscribe to. Can AlgoSec be used for continuous compliance monitoring? Select a size Which network Get the latest insights from the experts Schedule time with one of our experts Schedule time with one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

Explore Algosec's customer success stories to see how organizations worldwide improve security, compliance, and efficiency with our solutions. BM&FBOVESPA Invests In Security Policy Management To Improve Operational Efficiencies Organization BM&FBOVESPA Industry Financial Services Headquarters Sao Paulo, Brazil Download case study Share Customer
success stories "AlgoSec helps us maintain a problem-free environment. And because of operational efficiencies, the product paid for itself within the first year. With AlgoSec, we can do more with less" Leading Latin American Stock Exchange Maintains a Secure, Compliant Trading Environment AlgoSec Business Impact • Recouped investment in AlgoSec within the first year• Reduce rule review project from 1 month to 1 day• Helps maintain a secure, compliant environment• Frees up staff to focus on other crucial security tasks Background Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, BM&FBOVESPA is the largest stock exchange in Latin America. BM&FBOVESPA has a diversified and integrated trading model offering a complete custody system. Trading takes place in an exclusively electronic environment. The Exchange enables customers to trade equities, to hedge and to execute arbitrage, investment diversification, allocation and the leveraging of positions. Challenge To keep its systems and transactions secure, BM&FBOVESPA utilizes firewalls from several vendors. In total these firewalls have about 40,000 firewall rules, with another 5,000 added annually. Even with two full-time employeesfocused on maintaining firewall rules, the steady addition of rules and objects created clutter and consumed the firewall appliances’ CPU and memory. Therefore, BM&FBOVESPA realized that an automated solution for firewall policy management was the natural next step in the maturity of its information security processes. “Manually managing our firewall policies was difficultand time consuming. We needed a solution that supported a variety of different firewall vendors and could integrate and manage all policies in an automated manner,” said Wellington Vita, Information Security Manager of BM&FBOVESPA. Solution Following a recommendation from Compugraf, one of BM&FBOVESPA’s key security partners, Vita and his team evaluated AlgoSec’s Security Management solution. The proof of concept clearly showed the value of the solution and the ease and speed with which it could be deployed. The ability to integrate and manage devices from multiple vendors and provide visibility across the entire network was also important in BM&FBOVESPA’s decision to select AlgoSec. Results BM&FBOVESPA uses AlgoSec on a daily basis to manage its firewall policies. “AlgoSec is a great product which helps us maintain the core of our environment -the firewall policy. With AlgoSec we can easily identify unused rules and objects, as well as rules that were not compliant with our information security policy.” noted Vita. “While using AlgoSec, we also discovered a new benefit. AlgoSec enables our information security architects to understand how information flows between firewalls, which helps them significantly with their information security projects.” The gains in efficiency and productivity have dramatically reduced the time consumed by firewall policy management. “Because of operational efficiencies AlgoSec paid for itself in the first year,” said Vita. In addition to cutting the time needed to perform ongoing policy management, the solution enabled BM&FBOVESPA to meet deadlines that would previously have been unachievable. “A month ago, we had to review our incoming internet access rules in two days — and did. Without AlgoSec, it would have taken us at least a month to accomplish this task,” added Vita.“AlgoSec helps us maintain a problem-free environment. And we have been able to move members of our team who previously handled these maintenance jobs onto other tasks, so we can do more with less. I recommend AlgoSec to other companies — it will help them improve their firewall policy management processes,” concluded Vita. Schedule time with one of our experts

A network security policy is a critical part of your IT cyber policy It helps determine what traffic is allowed on your network, keeping critical assets secure Network security policy examples & procedures A network security policy delineates guidelines for computer network access, determines policy enforcement, and lays out the architecture of the organization’s network security environment and defines how the security policies are implemented throughout the network architecture. Network security policies describes an organization’s security controls. It aims to keep malicious users out while also mitigating risky users within your organization. The initial stage to generate a policy is to understand what information and services are available, and to whom, what the potential is for damage, and what protections are already in place. The security policy should define the policies that will be enforced – this is done by dictating a hierarchy of access permissions – granting users access to only what they need to do their work. These policies need to be implemented in your organization written security policies and also in your IT infrastructure – your firewall and network controls’ security policies. Introduction Network security policy management refers to how your security policy is designed and enforced. It refers to how firewalls and other devices are managed. What is network security policy management? A good IT security policy contains the following essentials: Purpose Audience Information security objective Authority and access control policy – This includes your physical security policy Data classification Data support and operations Security awareness and behavior Responsibility, rights, and duties A cyber security policy is part of your overall IT security. A cybersecurity policy defines acceptable cybersecurity procedures. Cybersecurity procedures explain the rules for how anyone with potential network access can access your corporate resources, whether they are in your physical offices, work remotely, or work in another company’s offices (for example, customers and suppliers), send data over networks. They also determine how organization’s manage security patches as part of their patch management policy. A good cybersecurity policy includes the systems that your business is using to protect your critical information and are already in place, including firewalls. It should align with your network segmentation and micro-segmentation initiatives. Cyber Security Policies as Part of IT Security Policy Network policy management tools and solutions, such as the AlgoSec Security Management Solution , are available. Organizations use them to automate tasks, improving accuracy and saving time. The AlgoSec Security Management Solution simplifies and automates network security policy management to make your enterprise more agile, more secure and more compliant – all the time. AlgoSec is unique because it manages the entire lifecycle to ensure ongoing, secure connectivity for your business applications. It automatically builds a network map of your entire hybrid network and can map and intelligently understand your network security policy across your hybrid and multi-vendor network estate. You can auto-discover application connectivity requirements, proactively analyze risk, rapidly plan and execute network security changes and securely decommission firewall rules – all with zero-touch and seamlessly orchestrated across your heterogeneous public or private cloud, and on-premise network environment. How AlgoSec helps you manage your network security policy? Select a size Introduction What is network security policy management? Cyber Security Policies as Part of IT Security Policy How AlgoSec helps you manage your network security policy? Get the latest insights from the experts Application-aware network security! Securing the business applications on your network Keep Reading Avoiding the Security/Agility Tradeoff with Network Security Policy Automation Keep Reading Examining the Security Policy Management Maturity Model Keep Reading Choose a better way to manage your network

Gain comprehensive visibility and control over your network security with AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer. Simplify audits, optimize configurations, and enhance protection. AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer- See the whole picture ------- ---- Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Streamline security management for Cisco ACI with AlgoSec's solution, offering visibility, policy automation, and risk management for your network infrastructure. AlgoSec security management solution for Cisco ACI With the integration of AlgoSec into the Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) architecture, customers can monitor security policy changes across their Cisco ACI system, obtain risk and compliance context for both managed and unmanaged security devices, and extend automation across their entire security environment. Introduction AlgoSec Security Management Solution for Cisco ACI™ extends ACI’s policy-driven automation to security devices in the fabric, helping customers automate policy enforcement for security devices in the fabric and ensure continuous compliance across multicloud ACI environments. The need The growing demand to support diverse applications across the data center and ensure that these applications are secure and compliant poses significant challenges to data center administrators. Managing network security policies in multicloud environments, with multivendor security devices spread out across physical and virtual devices is a delicate balancing act. There is a tradeoff between reducing risk and provisioning connectivity for critical business applications. With thousands of firewall rules across many different security devices, frequent changes, a lack of trained security personnel, and lack of visibility, managing security policies manually is now impossible. It is too complex, too time-consuming, and riddled with errors – causing outages, security risks, and compliance violations. The solution AlgoSec Security Management for Cisco ACI delivers application-centric security policy change management, providing unified visibility across the entire network estate. It leverages policy-driven automation to manage security changes, assess risk, and maintain compliance. About Cisco ACI Cisco ACI, an industry-leading software-defined networking solution, facilitates application agility and data center automation. ACI enables scalable multicloud networks with a consistent policy model and provides the flexibility to move applications seamlessly to any location or any cloud while maintaining security and high availability. Policy-driven, multi-tenant, application-centric security management for data centers The network security management solution from AlgoSec and Cisco comprises several key components: AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) – Network security policy analysis, auditing, and compliance AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer delivers visibility and analysis of complex network security policies across Cisco ACI, firewalls attached to the ACI fabric, and other upstream security devices. The solution automates and simplifies security operations, including troubleshooting, auditing policy cleanup, risk and compliance analysis, and audit preparations. AlgoSec FireFlow (AFF) – Automation of security policy changes AlgoSec FireFlow helps you process security policy changes in a fraction of the time, so you can respond to business requirements with the agility they demand. AlgoSec FireFlow automates the entire security policy change process — from design and submission to proactive risk analysis, implementation, validation, and auditing with support for automated policy enforcement on Cisco ACI and multivendor security devices. AlgoSec AppViz – Application Visibility Add-On The AppViz add-on accelerates identification and mapping of all the network attributes and rules that support business-critical applications – making it easier for organizations to make changes to their applications across any on-premise and cloud platform, and to troubleshoot network and change management issues across the entire enterprise environment. AlgoSec AppChange – Application Lifecycle Change Management Add-On AlgoSec’s AppChange automatically updates network security policy changes on all relevant devices across the entire network. This saves time for IT and security teams and eliminates manual errors and misconfigurations. AppChange addresses the critical issues of human error and configuration mistakes which are the biggest causes of network and application outages. About the AlgoSec Security Policy Management Solution (ASMS) AlgoSec Security Policy Management Solution (ASMS) intelligently automates and orchestrates network security policy management to make enterprises more agile, more secure, and more compliant — all the time. Through a single pane of glass, users can determine application connectivity requirements, proactively analyze risk from the business perspective, and rapidly plan and execute network security changes — all with zero-touch deployment and provisioning, seamlessly orchestrated in multicloud network environments. AlgoSec integrates with Cisco ACI to extend ACI’s policy-based automation to all security devices across their data center, on its edges, and in the cloud. AlgoSec Security Management Solution for ACI enables customers to ensure continuous compliance and automates the provisioning of security policies across the ACI fabric and multivendor security devices connected to the ACI fabric, helping customers build secure data centers The AlgoSec solution Through a seamless integration, AlgoSec complements Cisco ACI by extending and enhancing its policy-based automation to all security devices across the enterprise network – inside and outside the data center. With AlgoSec’s enhanced visibility and unified security policy management capabilities, customers can now process and apply security policy changes quickly, assess and reduce risk, ensure compliance, and maintain a strong security posture across their entire environment – thereby rapidly realizing the full potential of their Cisco ACI deployment. Key features of the integrated solution Visibility Provides complete visibility into tenants, endpoints, EPGs and contracts in the ACI fabric Provides a detailed change history for every firewall and other managed devices, current risk status, and device topology Quick access to key findings via the AlgoSec App for the Cisco ACI App Center Compliance Proactively performs a risk assessment for the policies (contracts) defined in the ACI fabric and policies defined for firewalls in the fabric; It also recommends the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations Proactively assesses risks for new policy change requests (before enforcement) to ensure continuous compliance Automatically generates audit-ready regulatory compliance reports for the entire ACI fabric Policy automation Automatically pushes security policy changes to Cisco ACI by creating contracts and filters to enforce data center whitelist policy Automatically pushes changes to firewalls in the ACI fabric and other network security controls in the data center Policy-driven application connectivity management Map application connectivity to ACI contracts and EPGs as well as in-fabric firewall policies Migrate application connectivity to Cisco ACI Visualize and instantly provision connectivity for business applications Assess the impact of network changes on application availability to minimize outages View risk and vulnerabilities from the business application perspective and recommend potential changes to the application policies in the ACI fabric Key benefits of the integrated solution for Cisco ACI customers Provides visibility into the security posture of the Cisco ACI fabric Delivers risk and compliance analysis and supports all major regulatory standards Reduces time and effort through security policy automation Facilitates and automates network segmentation within the data center Helps avoid outages and eliminate security device misconfigurations Significantly simplifies and reduces audit preparation efforts and costs The integrated Cisco ACI and AlgoSec offering AlgoSec also delivers an App for the Cisco ACI App Center, making key benefits of the integrated solution easily accessible from the APIC-user interface. The AlgoSec App for ACI provides visibility into security and compliance posture of the ACI fabric (including firewalls in the ACI fabric) and enables contract connectivity troubleshooting and the automating of security policy changes on firewalls connected to the ACI fabric. AlgoSec App for Cisco ACI App Center Automated security policy change management Automate security policy change management for multivendor firewalls Automatically create and push ACI contracts and EPGs “On-the-fly” risk and compliance assurance during policy changes of ACI and in-fabric firewalls Design rule changes and validate correct implementation Push policy changes directly to the device Document changes and generate an audit trail Seamlessly integrate with existing ticketing systems Risk mitigation and compliance reporting Instantly generate audit-ready reports for all major regulations, including PCI DSS, HIPAA , SOX, NERC, GDPR, and many others Risk and compliance analysis for Cisco ACI contracts and for firewall security policies Proactively uncover gaps in your firewall compliance posture across your entire estate Proactively check every change for compliance violations – and remediate problems before an audit Get a complete audit trail of all firewall changes and approval processes Application connectivity and security modeling Map application connectivity to ACI contracts and EPGs Map application connectivity to ACI fabric firewall polices Simplify application and server migrations to the data center Accelerate application delivery Reduce the cost of manual application connectivity mapping efforts Avoid application outages due to network device misconfigurations Provide risk and compliance per application Align application, security, and network teams Data center and cloud migration Provide application connectivity mapping assistance by connecting to CMDBs among other ways Map the security devices and policies to ACI’s application data constructs Provide risk assessment to application connectivity as depicted by ACI Minimize business disruption and avoid application outages during migration In-depth visibility of the security migration process Unify security policy management across multicloud environments Key use cases of the integrated solution AlgoSec uses NoAPIC northbound REST APIs to learn the APIC policy configuration. AlgoSec then uses this information from Cisco ACI and adds to it the configurations and policies of the network firewalls, routers, load balancers, web proxies, and cloud security controls, to deliver a unified security policy management solution for the ACI fabric. This, in turn, provides benefits including compliance, automation, and visibility of the entire network estate. How it works Integrating Cisco ACI with AlgoSec lets you do the following: Automatically design and push security policy change s to Cisco ACI by creating contracts and filters to enforce the data center whitelist policy, and also changes to firewalls connected to the ACI fabric and to other network security controls in a multicloud environment Proactively assess risk in Cisco ACI contracts and recommend changes needed to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations both while making policy changes and, periodically, for the entire multicloud environment Application policy reflection of the data center’s underline security policies as implemented on firewalls and other security devices Summary AlgoSec component: AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) V2017.3 and higherCisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Cisco Firepower® Threat Defense (FTD), Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point Firewalls, and cloud-native security devices. Please refer to the link below for a complete list of supported devices: https://www.algosec.com/ supported-devices/ AlgoSec FireFlow (AFF) AlgoSec AppVizAlgoSec AppChangeActiveChange (for AFF) v2018.1 and higher AlgoSec software components compatible with Cisco ACI The AlgoSec Security Policy Management Solution for Cisco ACI is available on the Cisco Global Price List (GPL) through the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program. Please contact Cisco sales or the Cisco partner network for more details. For more information Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html The AlgoSec Connectivity and Compliance App on ACI App Center https://dcappcenter.cisco.com/connectivitycompliance.html AlgoSec and Cisco https://www.algosec.com/cisco-algosec/. Product availability Select a size Introduction Policy-driven, multi-tenant, application-centric security management for data centers The AlgoSec solution The integrated Cisco ACI and AlgoSec offering AlgoSec App for Cisco ACI App Center Key use cases of the integrated solution How it works Summary AlgoSec software components compatible with Cisco ACI Product availability Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

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Enhance your network security with application segmentation solutions from Guardicore and AlgoSec, providing advanced visibility and control to protect critical assets. Application segmentation: Guardicore and AlgoSec ------- ---- Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Boost Cisco ACI adoption with AlgoSec. Simplify security management, enhance visibility, and streamline policy automation for your ACI environment. Increasing Cisco ACI adoption with AlgoSec ------- ---- Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi vendor estate Webinars Cisco & AlgoSec Achieving application-driven security across your hybrid network Your network extends into hybrid environments and may include private clouds running Cisco ACI, and on-premises devices. Managing network security policies in your multi-vendor estate is complex. Because your network is made up of multiple vendors and each part of your network estate is managed in its own silo, it is tough to get centralized management of your entire network. Making changes is a chore and validating security is difficult. Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate. In this session Roxana Diaz, Worldwide Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco, and Yonatan Klein, AlgoSec’s Director of Product, will discuss how to manage the Cisco and multi-cloud estate and how to: Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem Get full visibility of your entire hybrid network estate, including items within the Cisco ACI security environment, as well as outside it, including Cisco firewalls and routers, as well as multi-vendor devices. Take advantage of Cisco Tetration Analytics and AlgoSec’s intelligent discovery to get a full picture of your network and application traffic and to design and provision a micro-segmentation network policy design. Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations June 10, 2020 Yonatan Klein irector of Product Management Roxana Diaz Worldwide Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Relevant resources AlgoSec Joins Cisco’s Global Price List Keep Reading Migrating and Managing Security Policies in a Segmented Data Center Keep Reading AlgoSec Cisco ACI App Center Demo 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

Streamline network management with AlgoSec Application Discovery. Gain visibility into application connectivity to optimize performance and enhance security policies. AlgoSec application discovery Enhance the discovery of your network applications ------- ---- Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts 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. Energy supplier keeps the lights on with automated network change management Organization Energy Supplier Industry Utilities & Energy Headquarters International Download case study Share Customer
success stories "AlgoSec has saved us a lot of time in managing our rule base.” Large energy supplier empowers internal stakeholders and streamlines network security policy change process Background The company is the provider of electricity and gas for their country. They are responsible for the planning, construction, operation, maintenance and global technical management of both these grids and associated infrastructures. The Challenge In order to provide power to millions of people, the company runs more than twenty IT and OT firewalls from multiple vendors that are hosted in multiple data centers throughout the country. Some of the challenges included: Lack of visibility over a complex architecture – With multiple networks, IT managers needed to know which network is behind which firewall and connect traffic flows to firewall rules. Change management processes were being managed by network diagrams created in Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets – tools that were not designed for network security policy management. Thousands of rules – Each firewall may have thousands of rules each. Many of these rules are unneeded and introduce unnecessary risk. Managing the maze of rules was time consuming and took time away from other strategic initiatives. Unnecessary requests – Business stakeholders were requesting status information about network traffic and making duplicate and unnecessary change requests for items covered by existing rules. The Solution The company was searching for a solution that provided: Visibility into their network topology, including traffic flows. Optimization of their firewall rules. Alerts before time-based rules expire. Automatic implementation of their rule base onto their firewall devices. They implemented AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and AlgoSec FireFlow, as well as AlgoBot, AlgoSec’s ChatOps solution. AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer ensures security and compliance by providing visibility and analysis into complex network security policies. AlgoSec FireFlow improves security and saves security staffs’ time by automating the entire security policy change process, eliminating manual errors, and reducing risk. AlgoBot is an intelligent chatbot that handles network security policy management tasks. AlgoBot answers business user’s questions, submitted in plain English, and automatically assists with security policy change management processes – without requiring manual inputs or additional research. The Results Some of the ways the company benefitted from using AlgoSec include: Visibility and topology mapping – They are able to get a picture of their entire network and view traffic flows to each network device. Optimized firewall rules – They are able to adjust the placement of their rules, placing their most used rules higher in the rule base, improving performance, and also checking for unused objects or rules to clean up, removing unused rules, improving firewall performance. Improved communication and transparency for time-based rules – Before time-based rules expire (rule with an expiration date), the requester is automatically notified and asked if the rule should be extended or removed. Better, more refined rule requests – By first gathering information from AlgoBot, rule requests are better focused. Internal customers are able to check if rules are already in place before making requests, therefore avoiding requests that are already covered by existing rules. Empower internal stakeholders – Able to save the IT team’s time by empowering internal stakeholders to use AlgoBot to get the answers themselves to traffic queries. Met change implementation SLAs – By implementing their rules with AlgoSec, the company meets their internal SLAs for change implementation. Streamlined auditing processes – By documenting the changes they made in the firewalls, who made them, and when, their audit processes are streamlined. Zero-touch automation – Automatically implementing rules in multiple firewalls simultaneously ensures policy consistency across multiple devices, while preserving staff resources. This also eliminates the need to use the management consoles from individual vendors, saving time and reducing misconfigurations. Staff efficiencies – Hundreds of monthly change requests are able to be managed by a single staff member. He would not be able to do it without AlgoSec. The company switched from a competing solution because it was more user-friendly and provided greater visibility than the competing solution they were previously using. They are also impressed with AlgoSec’s scalability. “The initial setup is really easy. It has been running flawlessly since installation. Even upgrades are pretty straightforward and have never given us problems,” they noted. Schedule time with one of our experts