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The research found that organizations are prioritizing security, seamless integration, and compliance in hybrid cloud environments with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, AWS and Microsoft Azure among the leaders The 2024 State of Network Security Report Reveals a Shift Towards Multi-Cloud Environments, with a 47% Increase in SD-WAN and 25% Uptick in SASE Adoption The research found that organizations are prioritizing security, seamless integration, and compliance in hybrid cloud environments with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, AWS and Microsoft Azure among the leaders June 27, 2024 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, June 27, 2024 – Global cybersecurity leader AlgoSec has released its annual ‘The State of Network Security Report’ providing a broad view of network security in hybrid cloud environments, identifying the most popular strategies adopted by security professionals. The report sheds light on key market trends and highlights the solutions and technologies that are in demand and why, helping organizations to navigate the complexities of modern network security. Based on two comparative surveys conducted in H2 of 2022 and 2023, AlgoSec’s research evaluated market leaders including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and more, identifying significant shifts in cloud platform adoption, deployment of firewalls and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), as well as Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) implementation. Key findings from the report include: ● Security, continuity, and compliance driving cloud platform selection – When selecting a cloud platform, organizations prioritize seamless integration, compliance, and robust security features. While the overall adoption of cloud platforms has grown, the ranking of different vendors has remained relatively stable. Azure continues to be the most widely used platform, closely followed by AWS, which has shown the fastest pace of growth. ● The growing adoption of SD-WAN – The move towards remote working and cloud computing has been the catalyst for the increased deployment of SD-WAN, ensuring secure and reliable connections across multiple locations. That is reflected in the report, with a steep decline in the number of organizations that had no SD-WAN solution from 55.2% in 2022 to 34% in 2023. ● The rise in SASE adoption – With network infrastructures becoming more complex, SASE has become a popular solution for organizations, consolidating multiple security functions into a single, unified, cloud service. The report found the rate of SASE adoption has increased year-on-year, with notable growth of Zscaler implementation from 21.9% in 2022 to 37% in 2023, and Prisma access implementation from 16.2% in 2022 to 22.8% in 2023. ● The increasing importance of firewalls in cloud estates – With more businesses looking to secure corporate resources across complex cloud networks, firewall implementation has increased as a result, providing organizations with the means to safeguard against external threats. The rate of adoption has risen significantly, with only 7.1% of respondents saying they had no firewalls deployed in 2023 - a sharp drop from the 28.4% recorded in 2022. ● The persistence of hybrid networks – Despite the general shift towards cloud adoption, on-premise data centers and device rollouts remain a significant feature of the network landscape. “According to our research there has been greater adoption of cloud-based network security solutions across the board”, said Eran Shiff, VP Product of AlgoSec. “However, there is still progress to be made in the SD-WAN and SASE space. By identifying the key trends and the most popular solutions on the market, we can provide some much-needed clarity into the complex world of network security.” The full report can be accessed here . About AlgoSec AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity and cloud-native applications throughout their multi-cloud and hybrid network. Trusted by more than 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations, AlgoSec’s application-centric approach enables secure acceleration of business application deployment by centrally managing application connectivity and security policies across the public clouds, private clouds, containers, and on-premises networks. Using its unique vendor-agnostic deep algorithm for intelligent change management automation, AlgoSec enables the acceleration of digital transformation projects, helps prevent business application downtime and substantially reduces manual work and exposure to security risks. AlgoSec’s policy management and CNAPP platforms provide a single source for visibility into security and compliance issues within cloud-native applications as well as across the hybrid network environment, to ensure ongoing adherence to internet security standards, industry, and internal regulations. Learn how AlgoSec enables application owners, information security experts, DevSecOps and cloud security teams to deploy business applications up to 10 times faster while maintaining security at https://www.algosec.com . 

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Learn how to manage security policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls with visibility, governance, cleanup, and audit-ready evidence. How to manage security policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls How do teams manage security policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls? A routine access request can become complicated fast. A new customer portal may run in AWS, call an identity service in Azure, send logs to Google Cloud, and still depend on a database behind a data center firewall. In one place, the change is a security group rule. In another, it is an NSG rule, a VPC firewall rule, or a rule in a long-lived firewall policy. The business request is one connection, but the controls around it are not the same. Managing security policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls means governing access consistently while respecting how each enforcement point works. Teams need to inventory where rules live, connect access to applications and owners, review traffic and risk context, route changes through approvals, clean up unused or overly broad access, and keep evidence that security and audit teams can use later. This is the practical work behind hybrid cloud security management . Schedule a Demo Why hybrid policy management gets messy Cloud and firewall teams often start with different tools and different assumptions. AWS security groups are associated with VPC resources. Azure network security groups use priority-ordered rules and Azure-specific constructs such as service tags and application security groups. Google Cloud uses VPC firewall rules and broader firewall policies. Data center firewalls may rely on zones, NAT, shared objects, service groups, and exceptions that have existed for years. The result is not just fragmented visibility. It is fragmented accountability. A cloud engineer may know why a security group exists, while the firewall team owns the data center path and an application owner understands the business dependency. Good network security management has to bring those views together before a rule is approved, changed, or removed. That matters during migrations, new application releases, incident response, audits, and cleanup projects. A rule that looks broad in one console may be tied to a temporary cutover. A quiet connection may support quarterly processing or disaster recovery. A policy object may contain more addresses than the requester realized. Without context, routine maintenance can turn into a service interruption or an audit finding that is hard to explain. Schedule a Demo What teams need to normalize first The goal is not to force AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls into one generic rule model. The goal is to normalize the facts that make a policy decision trustworthy. Start with the intent: which application or business service needs access, who owns it, what source and destination are involved, which ports and protocols are required, and how long the access should remain open. Then add operational evidence. Useful evidence includes traffic history, topology, tags, service accounts, policy objects, risk findings, change tickets, exception records, and recertification history. Application connectivity management is especially important here because policy teams need to understand what could break before narrowing a cloud rule or firewall rule. Once those facts are visible, teams can apply a consistent governance process without ignoring provider details. The approval path can be standardized, while the technical review still respects the rule model of the environment where enforcement happens. Schedule a Demo How AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises controls differ A concise comparison helps avoid one of the most common mistakes in hybrid policy management: treating cloud-native controls and on-premises firewall rules as if they behave the same way. Environment / control What makes it different What management must normalize AWS security groups Stateful controls associated with VPC resources; inbound and outbound rules define source, destination, port, and protocol Owner, application purpose, account and VPC scope, exposed services, unused or broad access Azure network security groups Rules filter traffic for Azure resources in virtual networks; priority, direction, service tags, and application security groups can shape behavior Priority logic, tags or groups, subscription and VNet scope, owner, exception status Google Cloud VPC firewall rules and firewall policies VPC rules apply to a project and network; firewall policies can group rules for broader scope with IAM-controlled administration Project and network hierarchy, tags or service accounts, policy owner, audit history On-premises firewalls Rule bases often include zones, NAT, objects, service groups, and long-lived exceptions across data center paths Application dependency, traffic usage, rule owner, change ticket, recertification, audit record Schedule a Demo A practical workflow for governing hybrid policies A working process usually has more value than another spreadsheet. It should give cloud, firewall, application, and compliance teams a shared way to decide what access is needed and what evidence supports the decision. Inventory enforcement points across cloud accounts, subscriptions, projects, VPCs, VNets, and data center firewalls Map applications and owners so rules are tied to a business service, not only to an IP address or object name Normalize policy intent by documenting source, destination, ports, protocols, direction, expected usage, and expiration where appropriate Review traffic and risk context before approving broad CIDRs, privileged ports, internet-facing access, or sensitive-zone connectivity Route requests through security policy change management so approvals, impact analysis, rollback planning, and audit trails are preserved Validate changes after implementation by checking that the intended application path works and that access is not wider than requested Clean up stale access carefully, using ownership, traffic history, maintenance windows, failover paths, and exception records before narrowing or removing rules Review policies regularly so migration leftovers, temporary exceptions, and unused cloud rules do not become permanent background noise Schedule a Demo Common mistakes to avoid The first mistake is relying only on native consoles. Native tools are necessary, but they usually show one provider or one technology domain at a time. They do not always show why a rule exists, which application depends on it, or whether the same path also crosses a data center firewall. The second mistake is treating low-use access as safe to remove. A quiet rule may support seasonal processing, failover, maintenance, or a migration that has not been closed properly. A good firewall policy cleanup process turns low-use or overly broad access into a review candidate, not an automatic deletion. The third mistake is losing the audit story. A change ticket that says “open access for app team” may not be enough six months later. Teams need the request, approval, business reason, risk review, implementation record, and recertification outcome in a form that can be reviewed without rebuilding the story from email threads and console screenshots. Schedule a Demo How AlgoSec Horizon fits into the proces For enterprises managing policies across cloud and on-premises environments, a platform view matters because policy decisions are rarely isolated. A cloud rule may depend on a data center firewall path. A firewall change may depend on an application owner. An audit request may depend on the history of approvals, exceptions, and cleanup decisions. AlgoSec Horizon helps enterprise teams connect application context, security policy visibility, risk analysis, governed change workflows, and compliance-ready evidence across hybrid environments. For hybrid cloud firewall policy management, the value is not flattening AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls into one oversimplified rule view. It is helping teams relate access back to the application, owner, risk, change record, and audit evidence needed to make better policy decisions. That approach supports the way security work actually happens: cloud teams move quickly, firewall teams protect shared paths, application owners know business impact, and compliance teams need evidence. The policy process works better when those groups can review the same access request with clearer context. Schedule a Demo Frequently asked questions What is hybrid cloud firewall policy management? It is the process of governing cloud-native and on-premises access controls across hybrid environments. It includes AWS security groups, Azure NSGs, Google Cloud firewall rules and policies, data center firewalls, application owners, risk review, change approval, cleanup, and audit evidence. Can one process manage AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls? Yes, but the process should standardize intent, ownership, workflow, risk review, and evidence rather than pretending the controls are identical. Each provider and firewall platform still needs technical review based on how it enforces access. How do teams limit security group and firewall rule sprawl? Start with naming and tagging standards, clear owners, traffic review, exception expiration, and regular recertification. Cleanup is safer when teams validate application dependencies and business need before narrowing or removing access. What data is needed to manage hybrid security policies? Useful inputs include rules, objects, tags, traffic logs, topology, application dependencies, owners, risk findings, change tickets, exceptions, and compliance requirements. The more current the evidence is, the easier it is to approve, clean up, or defend a policy decision. How does AlgoSec Horizon help with hybrid policy management? AlgoSec Horizon provides a platform view that helps connect application context, policy visibility, risk analysis, governed change workflows, and compliance-ready evidence. That context helps teams manage policy changes and cleanup with stronger governance across hybrid environments. Schedule a Demo See how AlgoSec Horizon can help See how AlgoSec Horizon helps security teams gain application-centric visibility, manage policy changes with governance, and support audit readiness across hybrid networks. Schedule a Demo Select a size How do teams manage security policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls? Why hybrid policy management gets messy What teams need to normalize first How AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises controls differ A practical workflow for governing hybrid policies Common mistakes to avoid How AlgoSec Horizon fits into the proces Frequently asked questions See how AlgoSec Horizon can help Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

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 ---- ------- 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 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

Robert Bigman is uniquely equipped to share actionable tips for hardening your network security against vulnerabilities Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the latest threats and how to handle them Webinars 1,2,3 punch on Network Segmentation The zero-trust network layer is a best practice to use when securing application connectivity. However, achieving zero trust for your organization requires multiple tools that work together. Join us for a conversation about: – Creating zero-trust in networks. – Integrating application connectivity with cloud, SDN, and on-prem network security controls. – Maintaining the network and micro-segmentation in harmony. June 8, 2022 Marco Raffaelli Akamai Asher Benbenisty Director of product marketing Relevant resources Defining & Enforcing a Micro-segmentation Strategy Read Document Building a Blueprint for a Successful Micro-segmentation Implementation Keep Reading 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

Explore top-rated FireMon alternatives for firewall security management. Find the best solutions for your needs based on our ranked and rated comparison. Top 10 FireMon competitors & alternatives (ranked & rated) ---- ------- 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 continuous compliance Solution overview See how this customer improved compliance readiness and risk Case study Choose a better way to manage your network

Silos hurt security NetworkSecurity is the responsibility of both NetOps SecOps In this panel with Cisco, Conscia AlgoSec security experts, we’ll share how to bring the teams together Webinars Bridging NetOps and SecOps: An Experts’ Panel Silos hurt security. Your network and its security are not managed by just one team. It is the responsibility of both NetOps and SecOps, but these teams don’t always play well together. In this security experts’ panel, Doug Hurd from Cisco, Henrik Skovfoged from Conscia, Oren Amiram and Tsippi Dach from AlgoSec will share how you can bring NetOps and SecOps teams together with Cisco ACI, Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Cisco Tetration) and AlgoSec. Discover how NetOps and SecOps teams can: Bridge the NetOps/SecOps divide, improve communication, and break down the silos between network and security. Align network, security, and business application owners Improve the entire network security with Cisco Secure Workload and firewall management Automate tasks and gain network traffic visibility of networks and security controls for threat detection, analysis and response across Cisco ACI and the entire hybrid and multi-vendor network. March 16, 2021 Alex Hilton Chief Executive at Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) Tsippi Dach Director of marketing communications Relevant resources Cisco & AlgoSec achieving application-driven security across your hybrid network Keep Reading DevSecOps: Putting the Sec into the DevOps Keep Reading 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

AlgoSec’s latest product release delivers automated application connectivity and security policy changes, deepens application visibility and discovery, and extends application risk analysis across multi-clouds and hybrid environments. Securely Accelerate Application Delivery and Policy Management with AlgoSec ASMS A32.10 AlgoSec’s latest product release delivers automated application connectivity and security policy changes, deepens application visibility and discovery, and extends application risk analysis across multi-clouds and hybrid environments. September 8, 2021 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., September 8, 2021 – AlgoSec , the application connectivity and security policy company, has introduced enhanced automated application connectivity and security policy changes, and deepened application visibility and discovery, in the latest version of its Network Security Management Solution. AlgoSec Security Management Suite (ASMS) A32.10 builds on previous versions to give IT and security experts the most comprehensive visibility and control over security across their entire hybrid environment. With A32.10, organizations can align network security with their overall business objectives, automating the process in a single platform for a seamless, zero-touch experience. The key benefits that AlgoSec ASMS A32.10 delivers to IT, network and security experts include: Intelligent application connectivity in SDNs and the cloud AlgoSec ASMS A32.10 introduces intelligent application connectivity management and enhanced security policy automation to leading SDN and cloud platforms, including VMware’s NSX-T. It also extends support for MSO-managed Cisco ACI devices, Cisco’s leading SDN platform. Application discovery and visibility across hybrid networks With A32.10 enterprises can use traffic logs to automatically discover applications on the network, providing enriched mapping across hybrid network estates. It provides a seamless and complete picture of the network across multiple public clouds including Google Cloud (GCP) and AWS Transit Gateway as well as Check Point R80 Inline and Ordering Layers. Extended application risk analysis A32.10 extends cloud risk management with new risk triggers of interest and unique filtering capabilities. When using A32.10, VMware NSX-T users can receive risk notifications, so they are aware of the potential compliance violations introduced by applications. “In this fast pace era of digital transformation, speed is of the essence. Unfortunately, many organizations confuse this for agility and take too many risks with their security, leaving them vulnerable to attack.” said Eran Shiff, Vice President, Product, of AlgoSec. “A32.10 makes it easier for organizations to securely accelerate application connectivity, enabling them to move fast across multi-cloud and hybrid environments and stay ahead of security threats, increasing business agility and compliance.” AlgoSec ASMS A32.10 is generally available. About AlgoSec AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to securely accelerate application delivery by automating application connectivity and security policy, anywhere. The AlgoSec platform enables the world’s most complex organizations to gain visibility, reduce risk and process changes at zero-touch across the hybrid network. AlgoSec’s patented application-centric view of the hybrid network enables business owners, application owners, and information security professionals to talk the same language, so organizations can deliver business applications faster while achieving a heightened security posture. Over 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations trust AlgoSec to help secure their most critical workloads across public cloud, private cloud, containers, and on-premises networks, while taking advantage of almost two decades of leadership in Network Security Policy Management. See what securely accelerating your digital transformation, move-to-cloud, infrastructure modernization, or micro-segmentation initiatives looks like at www.algosec.com Media Contacts: Tsippi Dach AlgoSec [email protected] Jenni Livesley Context Public Relations [email protected] +44(0)300 124 6100

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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 Horizon Security Analyzer and AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow, as well as AlgoBot, AlgoSec’s ChatOps solution. 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. 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

AlgoSec’s latest product release provides application-based identification and risk analysis in multi-cloud environments and on-premises. Gain more insights into multi cloud application connectivity with AlgoSec A32.50 AlgoSec’s latest product release provides application-based identification and risk analysis in multi-cloud environments and on-premises. January 10, 2023 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., January 10, 2023 – AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader in securing application connectivity, announced today the release of its latest product version A32.50. AlgoSec A32.50 provides a powerful solution for organizations to secure application connectivity in their hybrid and multi-cloud estate. With A32.50, organizations obtain granular visibility and discovery of applications, enabling identification and risk analysis in multi-cloud environments and on-premises. The key benefits that AlgoSec A32.50 delivers to IT, network, and security experts include: Application awareness for Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto’s Panorama as part of the change management cycle Enables SecOps teams to update firewall application information as part of the firewall rules in the workflow automation Extended SASE/SSE management Provides Zscaler users management capabilities focused on risk, regulatory compliance, and policy optimization. As an early availability, A32.50 supports Prisma Access visibility of mobile users. Ensure ongoing regulatory compliance with new and updated out of the box reports Generate full audit report for the ECB security of internet payments and maintain ongoing compliance with the regulatory requirements. Additionally, utilize updated PCI and SWIFT requirement reports. Integrate cloud security into your IaC initiative while streamlining processes Embed cloud security checks into the DevSecOps native tools, allowing them to proactively identify and mitigate risk as part of their ongoing process. About AlgoSec AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity by automating connectivity flows and security policy, anywhere. The AlgoSec platform enables the world’s most complex organizations to gain visibility, reduce risk, and process changes at zero-touch across the hybrid network. AlgoSec’s patented application-centric view of the hybrid network enables business owners, application owners, and information security professionals to talk the same language, so organizations can deliver business applications faster while achieving a heightened security posture. Over 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations trust AlgoSec to help secure their most critical workloads across public cloud, private cloud, containers, and on-premises networks while taking advantage of almost two decades of leadership in Network Security Policy Management. See what securely accelerating your digital transformation, move-to-cloud, infrastructure modernization, or micro-segmentation initiatives looks like at www.algosec.com

AlgoSec’s latest product release provides organizations with enhanced application connectivity visibility, effective security, and continuous compliance with the most recent regulations across their multi-cloud environments. Ensure up to date compliance and tighten your hybrid network security posture with AlgoSec A32.60 AlgoSec’s latest product release provides organizations with enhanced application connectivity visibility, effective security, and continuous compliance with the most recent regulations across their multi-cloud environments. September 13, 2023 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., September 13, 2023 – AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, introduces AlgoSec A32.60, the latest in application connectivity security and compliance. AlgoSec A32.60 provides an effective solution for organizations to secure application connectivity in their hybrid and multi-cloud estate. A32.60 integrates cloud security visibility into AlgoSec’s security management platform and enables organizations to ensure ongoing compliance with industry regulatory standards. The key benefits that AlgoSec A32.60 delivers to network and security experts include: Enhanced visibility and security of north-south network traffic: New integration with Palo Alto Prisma Access, now encompassing mobile user policies within the Prisma access fabric. New integration and support for SD-WAN Versa Networks, offering extended visibility into network connectivity and an intuitive topology map. Ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance: Enhanced ISO 27001 report with the latest 2022 standards, allowing organizations to ensure alignment with the most current regulations. Integration of a new ECB (European Central Bank) regulations report, allowing companies to confidently navigate evolving compliance requirements. Integrating cloud security visibility into network security policy management: Expanded integration with Microsoft Azure firewall enables centralized visibility across both cloud and traditional firewalls, all within a single, unified management solution. New automation support for Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) objects in Palo Alto Panorama, Fortinet FortiManager, and Check Point. This allows users to efficiently manage and secure their network resources while embracing the flexibility of cloud environments. About AlgoSec AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity by automating connectivity flows and security policy, anywhere. The AlgoSec platform enables the world’s most complex organizations to gain visibility, reduce risk, achieve compliance at the application-level and process changes at zero-touch across the hybrid network. AlgoSec’s patented application-centric view of the hybrid network enables business owners, application owners, and information security professionals to talk the same language, so organizations can deliver business applications faster while achieving a heightened security posture. Over 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations trust AlgoSec to help secure their most critical workloads across public cloud, private cloud, containers, and on-premises networks. See what securely accelerating your digital transformation, move-to-cloud, infrastructure modernization, or micro-segmentation initiatives looks like at www.algosec.com

Learn practical cloud security tips for identity, network access, application connectivity, monitoring, compliance evidence, and governed policy changes How to enhance cloud security: 10 practical tips for enterprise teams Why cloud security needs operational context, not just controls? A cloud change request lands with a familiar question: the security group is broad, the exception label says "temporary migration," and no one is sure whether the old reporting feed still uses it. The cloud team can see the rule. The application owner remembers part of the project. Compliance wants evidence. Network security is cautious because one cleanup change could touch a service that has not been mapped in months. Effective cloud security starts with clear ownership and least-privilege access, then extends to asset inventory, hardened cloud network access, application-aware change review, data protection, monitoring, incident response, and evidence captured as work happens. Cloud security is the set of controls and operating practices that protect cloud identities, workloads, networks, data, and changes. Cloud security posture is how well those controls hold up across real accounts, subscriptions, projects, applications, and day-to-day decisions. Schedule a Demo Why cloud security gets harder as environments grow In an enterprise environment, cloud security data rarely sits in one place. Identity permissions may live with the cloud platform team. Security groups, network security groups, VPC firewall rules, and firewall policies may be reviewed by network security. Logs may flow into SecOps tools. Application ownership may sit in a CMDB, a ticket queue, or someone's memory from the last migration. That separation creates gaps. A security decision often happens without a shared application context, so reviewers are left trying to answer practical questions such as: · Who owns the service · Which dependency uses the connection · Whether traffic is still observed on the path · What could break if the access changes As hybrid and multi-cloud environments grow, small exceptions can turn into policy drift. Temporary access becomes permanent. Unused resources stay reachable because no one wants to remove them blindly. Schedule a Demo Navigating the shared responsibility model Shared responsibility also matters. Cloud providers secure the underlying services they operate, while customers remain responsible for many decisions about identities, data, workload configuration, logging, and access policies. The exact split changes across infrastructure, platform, and software-as-a-service models, so ownership rules need to match the cloud services your teams actually run. Schedule a Demo 10 practical tips for enhancing cloud security The best cloud security programs do not treat these tips as a once-a-year checklist. They build them into change review, deployment, monitoring, and audit preparation so small exceptions do not quietly become long-term exposure. 1. Define shared responsibility and ownership. Name the owners for cloud accounts, subscriptions, projects, applications, data sets, access policies, and approvals. When ownership is vague, exceptions stay open because no one has the authority or context to close them. 2. Tighten identity and privileged access. Enforce multifactor authentication, least privilege, temporary elevation, and regular access reviews. Pay special attention to service accounts, unused roles, standing administrator access, and permissions granted outside the normal request process. 3. Inventory assets and exposed services. You cannot protect what you cannot see. Maintain an inventory of workloads, storage buckets, databases, Kubernetes clusters, public endpoints, and orphaned resources, with tags that show the owner, environment, business purpose, and sensitivity where possible. 4. Harden cloud network access rules. Review security groups, network security groups, VPC firewall rules, and cloud firewall policies for broad inbound access, unrestricted outbound access, unused rules, and poorly documented exceptions. Treat this work as part of continuous network security management , not as a one-off cloud setting. 5. Map application connectivity before changing access. A cloud rule can look unnecessary until it supports a payroll job, failover path, reporting feed, or maintenance window. Before narrowing access, check application connectivity , the application owner, dependencies, observed traffic, and the rollback plan. 6. Protect data with classification and encryption. Classify data by sensitivity and apply controls that match real business risk. Use encryption in transit and at rest, manage keys carefully, and define retention rules so sensitive data is not kept longer than needed. 7. Monitor logs, traffic, and control-plane activity. Collect the signals teams need to investigate changes and incidents: audit logs, flow logs, identity events, API activity, alert context, and remediation notes. Monitoring is more useful when alerts identify the affected workload, owner, and likely business impact. 8. Review infrastructure-as-code and pipeline changes. Cloud security changes often begin in templates, pull requests, and deployment pipelines. Review infrastructure-as-code for overly permissive access, exposed services, weak defaults, and unapproved policy changes before they reach production. 9. Prepare response and recovery playbooks. Plan how teams will isolate a compromised account, revoke credentials, roll back a risky change, restore backups, and preserve evidence. Tabletop exercises help expose gaps before an incident forces teams to improvise. 10. Keep compliance-ready evidence as work happens. Do not wait for an audit to reconstruct the story. Keep change tickets, approvals, risk reviews, exception owners, recertification records, and remediation notes tied to the policy decisions they support. Schedule a Demo Cloud security tips at a glance Use this table as a quick operating model for cloud security work. The goal is not only to improve controls, but to preserve the evidence that explains why each decision was made. Cloud security area Operational move Evidence to keep Identity and access Enforce MFA, least privilege, role reviews, and temporary privileged access Access review records, exception owners, approvals Cloud network policies Review security groups, network security groups, VPC firewall rules, and broad inbound or outbound access Rule owner, traffic history, business justification, change ticket Application connectivity Map which applications use each connection before removing or narrowing access Application owner, dependency map, observed flows, rollback plan Monitoring and response Collect audit logs, flow logs, alert context, and response actions across cloud accounts Alert notes, incident timeline, remediation record Compliance and governance Record approvals, exceptions, recertification, and policy changes during normal work Compliance-ready evidence, risk acceptance, control owner signoff Schedule a Demo Common mistakes that weaken cloud security programs Treating cloud security as a tooling problem only: CSPM, CNAPP, SIEM, vulnerability management, and provider-native controls can surface important issues, but tools cannot replace clear ownership, application context, and governed change decisions Assuming the cloud provider handles customer-side configuration: providers operate the cloud infrastructure, but customers still manage permissions, workloads, data settings, logging choices, and access rules for the services they use Cleaning up rules without dependency checks: blind firewall policy cleanup can turn into an outage if a quiet rule supports a seasonal process, maintenance job, or failover route. Move from discovery to validation to approved change, with a rollback plan ready Leaving the evidence trail until the audit: a team can make the right decision and still struggle during an audit if no one captured the owner, justification, risk review, approval record, and remediation note. Strong programs make audit readiness part of daily work, not a separate scramble Schedule a Demo How AlgoSec Horizon supports application-centric cloud security management This is where a platform view matters. In hybrid environments, cloud access policies rarely stand alone. They interact with firewall rules, network paths, application dependencies, security policy change management , exceptions, and compliance requirements. AlgoSec Horizon helps enterprise teams connect application context, security policy visibility, risk analysis, governed change processes, and compliance-ready evidence across hybrid environments. For cloud security teams, that context helps turn a rule review from "is this port open?" into better questions: which application may rely on it, who owns the decision, what risk does it introduce, and what evidence should be preserved before access changes? AlgoSec Horizon is not a substitute for human judgment. It helps security, network, cloud, application, and compliance teams work from a shared application-centric view when they review access, approve changes, and prepare for audits. Schedule a Demo Frequently asked questions What is the most important cloud security tip? Start with ownership and identity. If no one owns the cloud account, application, data, or access path, it is harder to apply least privilege, review exceptions, or show why a control exists during an audit. How often should cloud security groups be reviewed? Review frequency should match risk, change volume, and audit requirements. Internet-facing access, privileged paths, production workloads, and regulated environments usually need more frequent review than low-risk internal resources. How do teams reduce cloud misconfigurations? Use secure baselines, review infrastructure-as-code templates, apply provider-native guardrails where they fit, and route higher-risk changes through governed approvals. Keep remediation evidence with the ticket so the team can show what changed and why. Why does application connectivity matter in cloud security? Cloud access rules are safer to change when teams know which application uses the connection. Application context helps separate stale access from business-critical dependencies, failover paths, and maintenance processes. How does AlgoSec Horizon help with cloud security? AlgoSec Horizon supports application-centric visibility, policy context, risk analysis, governed changes, and compliance-ready evidence across hybrid environments. This helps connect cloud policy decisions to applications, owners, approvals, and audit histories. Schedule a Demo Select a size Why cloud security needs operational context, not just controls? Why cloud security gets harder as environments grow Navigating the shared responsibility model 10 practical tips for enhancing cloud security Cloud security tips at a glance Common mistakes that weaken cloud security programs How AlgoSec Horizon supports application-centric cloud security management Frequently asked questions Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network