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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.

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

Software development teams face a large and growing number of obstacles: shifting design requirements, organizational blockers, tight deadlines, complicated tech stacks and software supply chains. Compliance requirements can add significant overhead to an organization. Examples of software compliance requirements.

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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Cloud computing changes staffing requirements to varying degrees depending on the level and type of adoption.

Strategy 360
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Embrace Automation to Pull Security Teams Together

Firemon

FireMon’s 2019 State of the Firewall report shows there’s much fragmentation when it comes to managing security. These silos of security responsibility make it harder to automate, and yet, embracing automation can help reduce firewall bloat and unify security controls to get the ship back on course.

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Top 5 Network Security Challenges in 2020 and Beyond

Firemon

According to Gartner, between now and 2023, 99% of firewall breaches will be caused by misconfigurations rather than firewall flaws. Firewalls are hard to manage because networks are complicated and getting more complicated by the month. Many organizations focus their firewall management activities on permitting access.

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