Firewall Management: Automation is Your Friend

• The Leader in Network Security Policy Management

• 800+ customers in more than 40 countries

• 100+ Channel Partners worldwide

• Fast growing 112% growth in Q1-Q3/2011

• Technology Partners include all major firewall vendors

• Committed to 100% Customer Satisfaction

AlgoSec Overview

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The AlgoSec Security Management Suite (SMS)

“a must have…”

Technology Partners Awards

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Research Background

Firewall risk survey

Risk versus complexity

42%

Small is Beautiful

Firewalls are misconfigured

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Risk Analysis

• Out-of-the-box risk knowledge base

• Remediation guidance

• Custom risk policy

• Security rating over time

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Tighten Overly Permissive Rules

Do You Really Need to Allow “ANY” Service?

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The most common cause for security network outages.

Source: AlgoSec Survey of over 100 security professionals

What is impacting network operations?

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• Big financial company: +/- 1000 rules added every year

• Huge spending on firewall hardware

• Adding a new cluster every year, as performance was slowing

down dramatically

• No logging available, due to huge numbers of rules

• Firewall Analysis using AlgoSec showed that: – The first 5 rules were used on 97.4% of connections

– Almost every protocol from everywhere was allowed

– After cleaning-up: full logging activated, half-hardware disinvested

Real Case Study

Automated Compliance Reports

• PCI DSS

• SOX

• ISO 27001

• Base II

• NERC

• J-SOX

Cut Auditing Efforts by over 80%

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SHIFT HAPPENS!

• 20-30% of changes are unneeded • 5% implemented incorrectly • “Cowboy” changes abound

Security Change Management - Automated

Topology Ruleset Policy

Automation

Depth of Analysis

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Security Management. Made Smarter.

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