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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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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. The post Preventing Security Misconfigurations: Change Management and Compliance appeared first on FireMon.

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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. With such massive volumes of changes, especially in cloud apps and DevOps, policy enforcement can never catch up.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

Access to the internet, SaaS services, and cloud applications require all traffic to exit the network through myriad point solutions cobbled together to secure and monitor the perimeter. We even copied that perimeter defense strategy to our cloud environments by building virtual firewalls to control access to those applications.

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One Simple Misconfiguration. 2.9 Billion Users Down.

Firemon

Through 2023, “99% of firewall breaches will be. caused by misconfigurations, not firewalls.”. Through the next several years, Gartner says that misconfiguration errors will be responsible for 99% of all firewall security breaches. → READ: Defining Firewall Change Management & Process Workflows.

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Cloud misconfiguration: vulnerability hiding in plain sight

CircleCI

In our technology-driven business climate, most companies have at least some, if not all, workloads on the cloud. And unlike on-premises networks, these cloud environments lack secure outer perimeters and specific off times. Cloud networks are always on and always available. What is cloud misconfiguration?

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