Manage Change, Enforce Compliance
FIREMON DELIVERS
Real-Time Compliance with 30% Fewer Resource Costs
The largest independent broker-dealer in the United States faced significant challenges surrounding their manual audit process across their expansive multi-vendor environment. FireMon provided real-time consolidated compliance in one centralized platform to dramatically reduce the time and effort needed to prepare for audits.
Use Cases
Industry: Financial Services
30%
Cost reduction per year
$250k
Savings per year from utilizing one centralized platform
Minutes
From weeks to prepare for audits
The Challenge
Time-consuming, resource intensive manual processes across a sprawling multi-vendor environment made meeting internal and industry regulations nearly impossible to maintain.
The company sought to:
- Achieve and maintain continuous compliance and audit preparedness across a multi-vendor environment
- Simplify and accelerate ensuring universal standards are met by consolidating management of their multiple network security policy vendors into a single management console
- Clean and reduce redundant, overly permissive, and shadowed rules
About the Company
A Fortune 500 investment and wealth management organization with over 17,500 financial advisors nationwide.
The Solution
With FireMon’s network security policy management solutions, the company significantly reduced the labor needed for policy management and gained 100% visibility into their Palo Alto Networks and Juniper environments to ensure they achieve and maintain NIST-800 compliance while optimizing their firewall and cloud security policies.
- Real-time compliance assessments
- Proactive compliance checks and auto-denial of changes that violate compliance standards
- Unified visibility and centralized policy management in a single management console
- Complete policy lifecycle management
“With FireMon’s solutions, we significantly reduced the labor needed for policy management. Audit preparation used to take months, and now takes just minutes.”
SVP Security ArchitectManaging the selection and deployment of FireMon
Results
- Achieved 100% NIST-800 compliance and CIS Benchmarks with automated, real-time checks
- 30% reduction of resource costs per year
- 100% visibility and control of their Palo Alto and Juniper devices
- 250K savings per year from utilizing a single source of truth platform
- Reduced risk of human error by eliminating error-prone manual processes
- Improved audit preparation efficiency from weeks to minutes
