Without automation, security gets harder during a business disruption
FireMon’s 2020 State of Hybrid Cloud Security Survey found that 69.5 percent of respondents have a security team of just 10 people or fewer. And most manage both on-premise network security and cloud security. These teams are already bogged down with manual tasks at the best of times, so when a crisis hits, it magnifies the risks of manual processes. Not only is it difficult to maintain essential network operations, but the number of misconfigurations that threaten compliance go up dramatically. Worse still, if unexpected interruptions to […]
Digital Transformation and Cloud Migration Initiatives Shouldn’t Leave Security Behind
Digital transformation can be a nebulous term, but for FireMon customers, it typically means shifting workloads to the cloud and streamlining business processes. This transformation should emanate from the inside out and is not simply adding transformational technology at the edge or remotely. Strategic initiatives around digital transformation should contribute to as many of the below areas as possible: Corporate cost savings People efficiency […]
Visibility and control in the public cloud is possible – And it must be unified and contextual
By Josh WIlliams, Senior Sales Engineer, Cloud and Automation Solutions at FireMon Anyone who works in enterprise technology has heard the joke that the cloud is just someone else’s computer. But if we’re being serious, there’s some logic to letting security professionals see cloud instances as just another computer to be viewed as part of their growing network infrastructure. […]
Make the Most of Your People with the Benefits of Automation
By Ofer Elzam, Vice President & GM, FireMon GPC Gone are the days when IT leaders fretted that the benefits of automation would shove people out of jobs. If anything, it’s the opposite: 74% of cybersecurity professionals say that a skills shortage has affected their organizations, continuing a trend of concern over the past few […]
Four Steps to Security Automation Success
By Ofer Elzam, VP and GM, FireMon Cloud & Automation Solutions Security automation projects are making headlines, with everyone looking to automate at least some portion of the policy management process. Usually, the goal is to save time and money by automating firewall administration and policy management. However, these two categories have grown exponentially in […]
