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Preventing Security Misconfigurations: Change Management and Compliance

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

CIO

Some things have changed in IP networking, but it remains the same at the core. Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. Over the last few years, however, the technology landscape has changed dramatically. And it worked.

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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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One Simple Misconfiguration. 2.9 Billion Users Down.

Firemon

A routine maintenance error severs Facebook’s data centers from the Internet for over 6 hours. It was quickly discovered that the culprit was a faulty configuration change on Facebook’s backbone routers that manage traffic between their data centers. Through 2023, “99% of firewall breaches will be.

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Hybrid Connectivity: Unlock Multicloud Benefits

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It allows for seamless communication between end users, on-premises data centers, and public cloud infrastructure. By using a combination of on-premises data centers, private connections, and public cloud services, businesses can improve performance, security, and reliability while reducing costs.

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What is Your Security Automation Strategy? Mindful or Mindless?

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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. FireMon’s vision of automation pivots around: Automation of security at scale across physical, virtual, cloud firewalls, applications, and users.