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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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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. Problem 2: Fragmented Ownership.

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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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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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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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How OPM Could Have Avoided the Data Breach

CTOvision

Knowing the interaction of firewall rules, and uncovering vulnerabilities introduced by misconfiguration, is vital. Uncovering unused, hidden, and redundant rules, which can have unforeseen impact on overall security, would help to simplify the overall firewall environment.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. CIOs should make sure they have change management expertise on board, too. “It

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