Compliance, visibility and Zero Trust

The challenge

A major U.S. federal agency responsible for maintaining market integrity and investor protection had spent over a decade relying on an underperforming network security policy management tool. With growing compliance requirements and a push towards a zero-trust architecture, the agency needed a more reliable and adaptable solution.

The organisation sought to:

• Fully automate firewall policy changes
• Select a solution with centralised, real-time control across their multi-vendor environment including Cisco, Palo Alto, AWS and Azure
• Support their Zero Trust initiative and network threat modelling
• Accelerate compliance tracking and audit readiness

The solution

FireMon’s network security policy management solutions ensured this government agency gained end-to-end visibility, real-time compliance assurance and automation across their complex hybrid network environment. FireMon replaced legacy tools with a centralised platform that integrated policy planning, risk analysis and asset management to support the agency’s Zero Trust and compliance initiatives.

• Support for Zero Trust architecture and a federal network threat modelling initiative
• Real-time compliance assessments and reporting across 500+ multi-vendor environments
• Automated change workflows and audit documentation for compliance tracking
• 100% real-time visibility into all security policies and network assets
• Consolidated single source of truth across hybrid and multi-vendor environments
• Proactive identification of risk and auto-denial of non-compliant changes

Results

• Real-time visibility into 500+ security devices across cloud and on-prem environments
• Centralised platform enables proactive enforcement of Zero Trust policies and threat modelling
• Automated policy management and change workflows reduced manual effort and ensure compliance
• Compliance reporting and rule analysis that once took days now completed in minutes
• Full asset inventory and visibility reduce risk of blind spots and audit failures