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Integrate Anywhere: API-First Agile Approach | The 5 Critical Success Factors to Agile NSPM

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And when a new security tool is added, fitting it into the security stack often requires wholesale changes across the entire environment. Less than 1 out of 4 network operators surveyed by FireMon report that their organizations are using integrated network security. Support network changes. Accelerate change management.

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Benefits of Automation: Make the Most of Your People

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FireMon’s 2019 State of the Firewall report revealed that 30.9% of survey respondents had an ad hoc or manual change management process. Through 2023, 99% of firewall breaches will be caused by misconfigurations , not firewall flaws, according to Gartner—something automation helps prevent. Only 13.8%

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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 delivers intelligent and automated workflow that helps security administrators implement the right changes with absolute precision.

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“Misconfiguration” – New Code Word for Human Error, Sets Stage for Increased Automation

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Digging into the results of our sixth annual 2019 State of the Firewall Report , it came as no surprise that a lack of automation remains a key challenge for security teams. But more significantly, it’s leading to firewall misconfigurations due to human error—the kind that raise the risk of a data breach. It’s a widespread problem too.

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State of the Firewall Report 2019: Zero-Touch Automation is More Headline than Reality, Network Complexity and Lack of Visibility Are Key Issues

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With data breaches on the rise and affecting every corner of every industry, from credit cards to medical testing companies , it poses the question about why these breaches keep occurring and what enterprises can do to prevent their most frequent causes – firewall misconfigurations. Reducing Network Security Risk with Firewall Automation.