May 30, 2020 •
Top 5 Network Security Challenges in 2020 and Beyond
There are a lot of theories about which network security challenge is the most important at any given time. The issue is highly subjective, particularly...
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May 27, 2020 •
Network Vulnerability: It May Not Mean What You Think It Means
Key Terms Network vulnerability A flaw in computing environment or associated processes that can potentially be exploited by malicious actors. Context The circumstances around a vulnerability that shed light on its true nature Network risk...
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May 26, 2020 •
Global SAAS Leader Chooses FireMon to Automate Network Security. Here’s Why.
In the age of clouds and hybrid clouds and multi clouds, effectively managing network and firewall policy and compliance isn’t a simple matter for any organization.
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May 11, 2020 •
Why Security Misconfiguration Are Higher During Covid-19
There are good reasons your IT security team may be looking a bit sleep-deprived. In addition to the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic everyone is facing, they’re also facing heightened risks to network firewall security...
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April 29, 2020 •
Security Misconfigurations in the Pandemic – and What to Do About Them
Change has never been a friend of network security. Neither has complication. Right now, we have too much of both. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented shift to remote work, bringing an avalanche...
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April 2, 2020 •
Without automation, security gets harder during a business disruption
FireMon’s 2020 State of Hybrid Cloud Security Survey found that 69.5 percent of respondents have a security team of just 10 people or fewer. And most manage both on-premise network security and cloud security. These teams are already bogged down with manual tasks at...
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April 2, 2020 •
Network visibility is a differentiator for innovation
Before working for FireMon, I was a cybersecurity professional at a Fortune 500 where I inherited a lot of firewalls with a lot of rules. Complexity was king, and chaos reigned, but implementing FireMon made...
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March 13, 2020 •
API Access Lets Security Engineers Get Creative
Having out-of-the-box integrations with common tools and cloud platforms are critical enablers to security, but flexibility is important too. Most enterprises have multiple vendors across their infrastructure and want access to an open API so they build their own integrations.
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March 11, 2020 •
Risk Mitigation Requires Complete Visibility
Even on a slow day, people across large enterprises are spinning up new networks, devices, and applications. It could be DevOps adding a development server, marketing people adopting a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM tool, or the business absorbing a whole host of endpoints...
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March 10, 2020 •
Digital Transformation and Cloud Migration Initiatives Shouldn’t Leave Security Behind
Digital transformation can be a nebulous term, but for FireMon customers, it typically means shifting workloads to the cloud and streamlining business processes. This transformation should emanate from the inside out and is not simply adding transformational technology at the edge...
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