Real-time visibility and automated compliance to slash policy change time

The challenge

Slow, manual policy changes, time-consuming compliance checks and limited visibility across platforms left their environment exposed to misconfigurations and security risks. The company
sought to:

• Reduce the time, effort and resources required to manage the current firewall change process through intelligent policy automation and workflow management
• Eliminate complexity by providing centralised and consistent visibility of network security policies across the hybrid enterprise
• Proactively detect, alert on and track policy changes in real time
• Provide flexible and granular assessment frameworks that allow for customisable compliance checks
• Continuously detect and remediate redundant, shadowed, unused and overly permissive objects/rules

The solution

With FireMon’s network security policy management solutions, the company gained a single source of
truth across its hybrid environment. Automated workflows and compliance checks streamlined the
change process while providing continuous adherence to PCI, ISO, SOX and GDPR standards.

• Reduced policy change time from 8+ days to 1
• Eliminated manual compliance steps, saving significant time
• Achieved and maintained 100% PCI, ISO, SOX and GDPR compliance
• 100% visibility and control across the entire firewall environment

Results

• 100% of rules automatically evaluated for compliance pre-deployment
• Hours of manual compliance work eliminated per engineer per week
• 100% real-time visibility into policy changes across the hybrid environment