The Challenge
Time-consuming manual processes, lack of visibility into their 5K+ device, multi-vendor hybrid environment, and inconsistent policy management made it impossible to maintain compliance while monitoring their security posture in real-time. This left the company open to potential breaches, outages, and fines.
The company sought to:
- Gain 100% visibility of network firewalls across their multi-vendor hybrid environments from a single management console
- Achieve continuous monitoring and audit preparedness of firewall operations
- Clean and reduce their large rule base that consisted of redundant, overly-permissive, and shadowed rules
- Implement a seamless, flexible change automation workflow to abolish their lengthy manual-processes
The Solution
After running successful tests that proved FireMon had significant technical advantages over competitors, FireMon’s network security policy management solutions provided the company with 100% visibility, accurate change automation and reporting, and fulfilled every requirement necessary to meet the company’s firewall policy related needs.
- Single pane-of-glass console for unified visibility and unified management
- Policy standardization and optimization identified and cleaned redundant, overly-permissive, and shadowed rules
- A complete suite of rule assessment tools that detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and traffic paths to continuously monitor firewall operations
- Benchmarks for network security policy with custom business risk policy and best practice reports
- Preconfigured and ad hoc compliance/audit reports, and on-demand and scheduled risk reports, and on-demand, scheduled, and real-time (on change) compliance reports
FireMon ensures that not a single policy change goes unnoticed or introduces vulnerabilities. Our security posture, once a concern, is now a point of pride.”
Results
- 100% visibility across their hybrid multi-vendor environment
- Improved security posture through real-time, continuous monitoring of all devices in a single location
- Reduced risk by removing redundant, overlapping, or unused rules
- Automation of firewall policy changes reduced from 8 weeks to minutes
100% Visibility across a multi-vendor hybrid environment
Weeks to minutes To implement policy changes
70% Of compliance checks and firewall rules automated