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

Firemon

In this series, FireMon looks at the five most important capabilities a network operator must build into their management practices in order to keep their environments secure, compliant, and ready to grow. Less than 1 out of 4 network operators surveyed by FireMon report that their organizations are using integrated network security.

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What is Your Security Automation Strategy? Mindful or Mindless?

Firemon

In the network security policy management space, automating iterative and manual tasks into streamlined workflows is absolutely critical. 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.

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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

Firemon

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.

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Benefits of Automation: Make the Most of Your People

Firemon

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

Firemon

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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Security integration must be simple, flexible and customizable

Firemon

FireMon’s annual State of Hybrid Cloud Security survey cements the need for better integration. Just like firewall change s , security professionals would want most integrations to be automatic , but also have the option for partial or full customization for specific use cases. .

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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. Meanwhile, 33.9