Case Study

Automated Security Assessments & Cleanup

After a ransomware attack, this media company turned to FireMon to reduce risk and streamline future breach response. FireMon offered the visibility, customization, and automation needed to manage their multi-vendor environment from a single console while cutting costs.

Use Cases:

Change Automation, Continuous Compliance, Risk Management

Industry:

Media

The Challenge

Tasked with quickly conducting a full rule cleanup while housing over 400 decentralized firewalls, the company, which was relying on time-consuming and error-prone manual audit preparation and rule review processes, needed a solution to empower their network security team to meet a rapidly-approaching deadline.

The company sought to:

Conduct a full rule cleanup to remove redundant, overly permissive, and unused rules
Automate lifecycle policy management for rule cleanup and review
Audit in one centralized platform that becomes the record of data for enforcing policy management
Gain a comprehensive view of policy across all devices in their multi-vendor environment which includes Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler devices

The Solution

With continuous compliance, change automation, and risk management solutions from FireMon, the company gained real-time visibility, control, and management capabilities for all network security devices across its vast multi-vendor environment.

Continuous compliance checks and automated custom firewall policy reporting simplified the audit process, increased accuracy, and eliminated the need to hire additional headcount
Automated workflows for firewall rule review, recertification, and removal saved tremendous time while reducing errors caused by manual processes
A single pane-of-glass console provided unified visibility and management

After being in the news for the wrong reason because of a ransomware attack, we knew we needed to reduce the chance of another attack by taking a close look at our policies and removing any unused or overly-permissive rules. FireMon’s automated security assessments and cleanup allowed our small team to conduct a full rule cleanup in a fraction of the time.”

Senior Security Manager

Managing the selection and deployment of FireMon

Results

$2M annual cost savings with FireMon compared to manual processes
No longer need to hire or outsource 6 additional security engineers to manage rule changes and conduct compliance audits
Reduced risk through identification and removal of overly permissive rules and unauthorized traffic
Automation of policy changes streamlined remediation processes and shortened time to mitigate violations

$2m

Annual cost savings with FireMon compared to manual processes

400+

Firewalls currently managed

Additional FTE no longer needed for rule changes and compliance audits

About FireMon

FireMon’s mission is to improve security operations that will in turn lead to better security outcomes. FireMon delivers industry-leading security policy management, cloud security operations, and asset management solutions. Our platform is the only real-time solution that reduces firewall and cloud security policy-related risks, manages policy changes, and enforces compliance. FireMon’s Cloud Defense (formerly DisruptOps) is the only distributed cloud security operations offering that detects and responds to issues in the fast-paced public cloud environments. Our cloud-based Asset Management solution (formerly Lumeta) scans entire infrastructures to identify everything in the environment and provide valuable insights into how it’s all connected.

Automated Security Assessments & Cleanup

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