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Preventing Security Misconfigurations: Change Management and Compliance

Firemon

It’s an enormous and unending daily challenge to make sure that changes to firewall policies are not just executed quickly and efficiently, but changes don’t decrease the security of your network. Unfortunately, mistakes put your network and your assets at risk.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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How to Select a Change Management Solution

Firemon

The most common threat to business security is accidental firewall and cloud security group misconfigurations. Manual rule and policy management of complex ground-to-cloud networks introduces countless opportunities for error, and most breaches are attackers taking advantage of this low-hanging fruit.

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Adapt to Change: Network Policy Change Management | The 5 Critical Success Factors to Agile NSPM

Firemon

Here is the third: adapt to change. . Pillar #3 – Adapt to Change. To err is human, and with many enterprises managing 100 firewalls or more, there are plenty of chances for humans to err. Misconfigurations turn into unplanned downtime, compliance risk, and security exposures. , FireMon Simplifies the Complex.

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Myth #1: Network Security Compliance Is Not All About Rules and Access Control

Firemon

This is part 1 of a 4-part series addressing compliance myths and what you need to know about uniting compliance and security in a hybrid environment. People are confused about what compliance really is. Yet some businesses still think that if they can tick every box in a compliance checklist, they are secure.

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

Compliance requirements can add significant overhead to an organization. Fortunately, it is possible to automate compliance-related activities using continuous integration and third-party tools. Examples of software compliance requirements. Software compliance best practices. Comprehensive testing and change management.

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What is Your Security Automation Strategy? Mindful or Mindless?

Firemon

For example, automation of firewall configuration updates is very straightforward but not so much the access control rules that govern who and what should have access to which network resources. Automation and Compliance – Will the Twain Meet? Integration with tools and workflows to support change management and tracking & audit.