Automated Policy Management to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Compliance

The Challenge

Due to pressure resulting from a recent pipeline cyberattack, urgent policy cleanup was necessary to meet new internal compliance practices within 90 days. The company lacked the visibility and automation across their complex, multi-vendor environment necessary to meet the 90-day deadline.

The company sought to:

• Meet new internal compliance standards within 90 days
• Eliminate manual firewall rule audit policy and rule changes
• Gain consistent policy management across a hybrid cloud environment

The Solution

With NSPM from Firemon, the company gained real-time visibility, control, and management capabilities for all network security devices across its hybrid cloud environment.

• A single management console for unified policy visibility and management of the company’s entire 800+ device, multi-vendor hybrid environment
• 100% visibility through real-time discovery that includes IP addresses, devices, and endpoints
• Standardization, optimization, and automated deployment of policy rule changes

Results

• 80% reduction in the time to produce accurate compliance reports through policy standardization and automation of manual processes
• 60% less time needed to remediate risky rules
• 800+ devices currently managed
• 20+ previously unknown devices discovered during deployment, decreasing risk
• Increased security posture through real-time, continuous monitoring of all devices in a single location