Radically reduce firewall rules with application-driven rule recertification
Asher Benbenisty
Director of Product Marketing
Does your network still have obsolete firewall rules? Do you often feel overwhelmed with the number of firewall rules in your network?
To make sure your network is secure and compliant, you need to regularly review and recertify firewall rules. However, manual firewall rule recertification is complex, time-consuming and error-prone, and mistakes may cause application outages.
Discover a better way to recertify your firewall rules with Asher Benbenisty, AlgoSec’s Director of Product Marketing, as he discusses how associating application connectivity with your firewall rules can radically reduce the number of firewall rules on your network as well as the efforts involved in rule recertification.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
AlgoSec AppViz – Rule Recertification
In this video you’ll learn how AlgoSec enables to efficiently and effectively manage the firewall rule recertification process through an application-centric approach. Following this approach, organizations must first identify all relevant business applications each rule supports, enabling you to review the firewall rules quickly and easily.
Changing the rules without risk: mapping firewall rules to business applications
As IT security becomes ever more business critical, most organizations have accumulated large numbers of complex firewall rulesets across their many security devices. These rulesets are regularly changed and added to and, as a result, they become bloated, in part because security teams are worried about the repercussions of cleaning up. Deleting a rule can be nerve-wracking since it might inadvertently cause an outage, or a gap in the security perimeter.
Firewall rule recertification: Challenges and benefits
As part of your organization’s security policy management best practices, firewall rules need to be reviewed and recertified regularly to ensure security, compliance and optimal firewall performance. Firewall rules that are out of date, unused or unnecessary should be removed, as firewall bloat creates gaps in your security posture, causes compliance violations, and impacts firewall performance. In the past, firewall rule recertification was often performed manually; an error-prone and time-consuming process. The new application-centric approach to firewall recertification offers an efficient, effective and automated method of recertifying firewall rules.
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