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A network security policy is a critical part of your IT cyber policy It helps determine what traffic is allowed on your network, keeping critical assets secure Network security policy examples & procedures Introduction A network security policy delineates guidelines for computer network access, determines policy enforcement, and lays out the architecture of the organization’s network security environment and defines how the security policies are implemented throughout the network architecture. Network security policies describes an organization’s security controls. It aims to keep malicious users out while also mitigating risky users within your organization. The initial stage to generate a policy is to understand what information and services are available, and to whom, what the potential is for damage, and what protections are already in place. The security policy should define the policies that will be enforced – this is done by dictating a hierarchy of access permissions – granting users access to only what they need to do their work. These policies need to be implemented in your organization written security policies and also in your IT infrastructure – your firewall and network controls’ security policies. Schedule a Demo What is network security policy management? Network security policy management refers to how your security policy is designed and enforced. It refers to how firewalls and other devices are managed. Schedule a Demo Cyber Security Policies as Part of IT Security Policy A good IT security policy contains the following essentials: Purpose Audience Information security objective Authority and access control policy – This includes your physical security policy Data classification Data support and operations Security awareness and behavior Responsibility, rights, and duties A cyber security policy is part of your overall IT security. A cybersecurity policy defines acceptable cybersecurity procedures. Cybersecurity procedures explain the rules for how anyone with potential network access can access your corporate resources, whether they are in your physical offices, work remotely, or work in another company’s offices (for example, customers and suppliers), send data over networks. They also determine how organization’s manage security patches as part of their patch management policy. A good cybersecurity policy includes the systems that your business is using to protect your critical information and are already in place, including firewalls. It should align with your network segmentation and micro-segmentation initiatives. Schedule a Demo How AlgoSec helps you manage your network security policy? Network policy management tools and solutions, such as the AlgoSec Security Management Solution , are available. Organizations use them to automate tasks, improving accuracy and saving time. The AlgoSec Security Management Solution simplifies and automates network security policy management to make your enterprise more agile, more secure and more compliant – all the time. AlgoSec is unique because it manages the entire lifecycle to ensure ongoing, secure connectivity for your business applications. It automatically builds a network map of your entire hybrid network and can map and intelligently understand your network security policy across your hybrid and multi-vendor network estate. You can auto-discover application connectivity requirements, proactively analyze risk, rapidly plan and execute network security changes and securely decommission firewall rules – all with zero-touch and seamlessly orchestrated across your heterogeneous public or private cloud, and on-premise network environment. Schedule a Demo Select a size Introduction What is network security policy management? Cyber Security Policies as Part of IT Security Policy How AlgoSec helps you manage your network security policy? Get the latest insights from the experts Application-aware network security! Securing the business applications on your network Keep Reading Avoiding the Security/Agility Tradeoff with Network Security Policy Automation Keep Reading Examining the Security Policy Management Maturity Model Keep Reading Choose a better way to manage your network

The new release deploys advanced AI for fast and accurate application discovery, provides clear visualization and mapping of application connectivity and potential security risks in complex hybrid environments AlgoSec launches its AI-powered Security Platform, to securely manage application-centric connectivity and remediate risk in real time The new release deploys advanced AI for fast and accurate application discovery, provides clear visualization and mapping of application connectivity and potential security risks in complex hybrid environments September 25, 2024 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, September 25, 2024 – Global cybersecurity leader AlgoSec has launched its newest Security Management platform version, featuring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology that provides an application-centric security approach and a clearer picture of risks and their impact. With this new release, the AlgoSec platform enables users to accurately identify the business applications running in their complex hybrid network, and leverage intelligent change automation to streamline security change processes, thus improving security and agility. “Security professionals are overwhelmed with a barrage of alerts that provide no context between critical threats and minor issues,” said Eran Shiff , VP Product of AlgoSec. “By mapping applications, security teams can understand their criticality, automate changes and prioritize alerts that truly matter, saving countless hours through automation.” Gartner predicts that by 2027, 50 percent of critical enterprise applications will reside outside of centralized public cloud locations, underscoring the complexity that network infrastructures face. Today’s networks are 100 times more complex than they were 10 years ago, and the pace of deployment and development at which security teams are expected to work is 100 times faster. AI-powered application discovery enhances a security team’s ability to detect and respond to threats in real-time. An application-centric approach automates change management processes, identifies security risks and mitigates risks before they impact the network infrastructure. “In today’s evolving cyber landscape, it’s essential that we rapidly identify and prioritize threats as they occur,” said Robert Eldridge, Security Solutions Director of Natilik. “AlgoSec’s AI-powered platform helps us deliver proactive network visibility and risk mitigation to our clients, keeping them ahead of potential threats”. Securing hybrid infrastructures relies on four pillars that are essential to AlgoSec’s platform update: ● AI-driven application discovery – Advanced AI feature designed to automatically discover and identify the business applications that are running by correlating them to security changes that have been made. ● Intelligent and automated application connectivity change – New enhancements allow security professionals to directly adjust existing Microsoft Azure firewall rules for new application connections. Additionally, there’s added support for application awareness in Check Point R80+ firewalls. ● Reduce risk exposure and minimize attack surface – New features focus on tightening security posture and minimizing potential vulnerabilities. It streamlines Microsoft Azure Firewall rule management by identifying and recommending the removal of unused rules. It reduces risk exposure by automatically generating change management tickets to eliminate overly permissive rules. Additionally, it ensures compliance with the latest ASD-ISM regulations. ● Better visibility across complex hybrid networks – AlgoSec has enriched its capabilities to support visibility of network security devices including: NSX-T Gateway Firewall, Azure Load Balancer, and Google Cloud map and traffic path (in early availability). To learn more about updates to the AlgoSec Security Management platform, click here . AlgoSec will demonstrate the key capabilities of release A33 during its upcoming annual AlgoSummit user event. To register, click here . About AlgoSec AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity and cloud-native applications throughout their multi-cloud and hybrid network. Trusted by more than 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations, AlgoSec’s application-centric approach enables secure acceleration of business application deployment by centrally managing application connectivity and security policies across the public clouds, private clouds, containers, and on-premises networks. Using its unique vendor-agnostic deep algorithm for intelligent change management automation, AlgoSec enables the acceleration of digital transformation projects, helps prevent business application downtime, and substantially reduces manual work and exposure to security risks. AlgoSec’s policy management and CNAPP platforms provide a single source for visibility into security and compliance issues within cloud-native applications as well as across the hybrid network environment, to ensure ongoing adherence to internet security standards, industry, and internal regulations. Learn how AlgoSec enables application owners, information security experts, DevSecOps, and cloud security teams to deploy business applications up to 10 times faster while maintaining security at https://www.algosec.com .  MEDIA CONTACT: Megan Davis Alloy, on behalf of AlgoSec [email protected]

Modernize your network with Cisco Nexus and ACI solutions for enhanced performance, scalability, and security in your data center and cloud environments. Modernize your network with Cisco Nexus & ACI ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Boost Cisco ACI adoption with AlgoSec. Simplify security management, enhance visibility, and streamline policy automation for your ACI environment. Increasing Cisco ACI adoption with AlgoSec Overview Cisco ACI, an industry-leading software-defined networking solution, facilitates application agility and data center automation. ACI enables scalable multi-cloud networks with a consistent policy model and provides the flexibility to move applications seamlessly to any location or any cloud while maintaining security and high availability. But, using Cisco ACI alone, has limits. Schedule a Demo Better together: Cisco ACI and AlgoSec AlgoSec Security Management for Cisco ACI delivers application-centric security policy change management, providing unified visibility across the entire network estate. It leverages policy-driven automation to manage security changes, assess risk, and maintain compliance. Integrating AlgoSec with Cisco ACI, extends the capabilities of Cisco ACI, accelerating adoption and retention of ACI, by providing complete network security management for the entire multi-vendor and multi-cloud network. Schedule a Demo Enterprise-wide ACI visibility With Cisco ACI alone, users only have visibility within the Cisco ACI fabric. However, by integrating with AlgoSec, gain full visibility across your multi-vendor hybrid network, including your on-premises and multi-cloud network estate like firewalls and other security control. With AlgoSec, users can search across multi-site Cisco ACI estates for tenants, endpoints, contracts, EPGs, and more. Visibility also extends beyond Cisco ACI, including items outside the ACI fabric so you can get visibility over your entire network estate. This provides a unified view of multiple environments including cloud, SDN, and on-premise deployments. Gain quick access to key findings via the AlgoSec App for the Cisco ACI App Center. As a result of full visibility over the traffic flows across your entire network, troubleshooting is simplified. With traffic simulation queries, you can easily see what breaks, so you know exactly what needs to be fixed. Once the ACI fabric is in production, AlgoSec can even help troubleshoot applications and connectivity issues for connections that enter, exit, and traverse the fabric itself. Schedule a Demo Why integrate AlgoSec with Cisco ACI? Automate for scale – Extend ACI’s policy-based automation to all security devices across the enterprise, including multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Reduce the attack surface – Enhance visibility into the security posture of the ACI fabric and across multiple on-premises, multi-cloud, and multi-vendor instances Security and compliance – Get risk and compliance analysis for Cisco ACI contracts alongside firewall security policies Application-centric security management – Map application connectivity to ACI contracts and EPGs, as well as in-fabric firewall policies Troubleshoot data center connectivity challenges using advanced network traffic simulation Schedule a Demo Application-centric connectivity mapping AlgoSec natively provides visibility into Cisco ACI network topology, while tying the ACI fabric into the rest of the data center. This provides a complete network topology map for your entire hybrid network. In addition, you can connect your network to the applications and their associated traffic flows. With Cisco ACI alone, applications are not connected to items outside of the ACI fabric or associated with all of the business applications on devices. By integrating Cisco ACI with the AlgoSec Security Management Solution, your organization is also able to connect network and business applications for items within and also outside of the ACI fabric. As a result, you can map application connectivity to ACI contracts and EPGs, as well as in-fabric firewall policies. Schedule a Demo Risk management Integrating the AlgoSec Security Management Solution with Cisco ACI enables to manage risk both within Cisco ACI and over your entire network, including identifying already existing risky security policies and flagging risk when creating new policies. AlgoSec helps identify risky rules for your entire network . In order to minimize outages, AlgoSec users can assess the impact of network changes on application availability. Risk and vulnerabilities can also be identified from the business application perspective. Potential changes can be recommended to the application policies in the ACI fabric. As a result, your application, security, and network teams are aligned. Schedule a Demo Proactive regulatory compliance By integrating Cisco ACI with AlgoSec, you can gain a complete picture of both items within the ACI fabric to meet compliance requirements, as well as items outside the fabric. AlgoSec generates automatic audit-ready compliance reports on each Cisco ACI tenant for major regulations, flags issues upon changes, uncovers gaps, and even remediates problems throughout your entire network, ensuring a state of continuous compliance and even provides insights into your entire network’s compliance state. Schedule a Demo Intelligent automation Cisco ACI provides automation for workflows and policies within the ACI fabric. But by integrating with AlgoSec, you can automate both inside and outside of the ACI fabric, including service graphs that control firewalls within the fabric. AlgoSec’s intelligent automation workflow enables automated deployment of contracts, EPGs, and filters on Cisco ACI. This allows clients to use a single process to deploy security policy across not only the Cisco ACI fabric, but rather across the entire hybrid, multi-vendor data center. Schedule a Demo Select a size Overview Better together: Cisco ACI and AlgoSec Enterprise-wide ACI visibility Why integrate AlgoSec with Cisco ACI? Application-centric connectivity mapping Risk management Proactive regulatory compliance Intelligent automation Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Gain in-depth application visibility with AlgoSec Horizon AppViz for Horizon Security Analyzer. Optimize security policies and uncover application risks across your network. AlgoSec Horizon AppViz – Application visibility for AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Explore Algosec's customer success stories to see how organizations worldwide improve security, compliance, and efficiency with our solutions. Dimension Data Enhances Delivery Of Managed Security Services With AlgoSec Organization DIMENSION DATA Industry Technology Headquarters Australia Download case study Share Customer
success stories "We were fortunate enough to get a double benefit from using AlgoSec in our environment — reducing costs to serve our clients, and expanding our service offerings" IT Solution Provider Streamlines and Automates Security Operations for Clients AlgoSec Business Impact Generate incremental revenue from new policy compliance management services Reduce cost of service for Managed Security Service offering Improve quality of service, assuring a direct and timely response to security issues Background Dimension Data, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Africa, provides global specialized IT services and solutions to help their clients plan, build, support and manage their IT infrastructures. The company serves over 6,000 clients in 58 countries and in all major industry verticals. Dimension Data serves 79% of the Global Fortune Top 100 and 63% of the Global Fortune 500. Challenge In an effort to bring greater efficiency and flexibility, Dimension Data Australia sought to apply security industry best practices and streamlined processes to its delivery methodology. Automation was identified as a key capability that would enable them to reduce service costs and increase quality of service. “The operational management of security infrastructure is quite labor intensive,” remarks Martin Schlatter, Security Services Product Manager at Dimension Data. “The principle reasons for automating managed services are reducing work time, freeing up people for other tasks, and leveraging expertise that is ‘built in’ the automated tool.” By doing this Dimension Data could offer better service to existing clients while expanding their client base. “Additionally, the increased appetite for the Managed Security Services offering has been fueled by an increasing focus on governance, risk management and compliance, and we are expected to deliver faster and more accurate visibility of the security and compliance posture of the network,” explains Schlatter. Solution Dimension Data selected the AlgoSec Security Management Solution as a part of their toolset to deliver their Managed Security Services, which include automated and fully integrated operational management of client security infrastructures. The intelligent automation at the heart of AlgoSec will enable Dimension Data’s team to easily and effectively perform change monitoring, risk assessment, compliance verification and policy optimization for their clients, and act upon the findings quickly. This includes getting rid of unused or obsolete rules in the policy, reordering rules to increase performance and identifying risky rules. Another key factor in the decision making process was the relationship between Dimension Data and AlgoSec. “AlgoSec was deemed most suitable to meet our delivery needs for Managed Services. We selected them for their specific technology fit, and flexibility to assist in growing our managed service business. The partnership element was eventually the overriding factor,” says Schlatter. Results With AlgoSec, Dimension Data is now able to deliver their clients a comprehensive view of the security posture of their network security devices. This is crucial to establishing a baseline understanding of a security network, which makes it possible to truly assess and remediate risks, errors and inefficiencies. The ability to automatically provide this type of information at the most accurate level provides a key competitive differentiator for the company and a large benefit for its clients. “The value-added contribution is saving time, in terms of automation,” remarked Schlatter. “We found a way to reduce costs by automating manual operational tasks. At the same time, we were fortunate enough to leverage AlgoSec to expand our service offerings, so we got a double benefit from using AlgoSec in our environment.” One of the major features of integrating AlgoSec into the Dimension Data solution is the ability to support multiple client domains from a single AlgoSec management console. “This scalable configuration has proven to be invaluable when managing multiple clients with complex multi-vendor, multi-device security environments,” says Schlatter. “It consolidates administrative tasks, cuts time and costs, and ensures proper administration and segregation of duties from our end.” AlgoSec enhances the Managed Security Services offerings by delivering comprehensive risk and compliance management. Dimension Data professionals can generate risk and audit-ready compliance reports in a fraction of the time and with much greater accuracy compared to traditional manual analysis. “Our clients who require ISO 27001 and PCI DSS accreditation have greatly benefitted from this,” said Schlatter. Schedule time with one of our experts

Learn about firewall rule automation and change management to streamline processes, reduce human error, and enhance network security with effective change controls. Firewall rule automation & change management explained ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

Manage multi-cloud security with effective policy and configuration strategies to ensure compliance, optimize performance, and protect your network infrastructure. Multi-Cloud Security Network Policy and Configuration Management ---- ------- Schedule a Demo Select a size ----- Get the latest insights from the experts Choose a better way to manage your network

With AlgoSec you will manage your network security confidently, no matter where your network lives Gain complete visibility, automate changes, and always be compliant AlgoSec vs. Tufin See how AlgoSec stacks up against Tufin Schedule a demo Stop managing rules, start securing applications. Bid goodbye to Tufin: Master hybrid security with AlgoSec. AlgoSec is an application-centric security management platform that eliminates the pain of hybrid network security management by focusing on what your applications need—because that is how your business runs. By automatically discovering applications and their connectivity, visualizing the full hybrid network security topology across cloud and on-prem environments, and enforcing micro-segmentation, AlgoSec enables security teams to prioritize risk based on real business impact rather than static rules. The result is faster, safer network changes with continuous visibility, compliance, and control across the entire hybrid infrastructure. Micro-segment successfully Master micro-segmentation. Define and enforce network segmentation throughout your entire hybrid network. Be confident that your network security policies won’t violate your network segmentation strategy. Get a demo > Visualize & analyze your application connectivity Micro-segment successfully Master micro-segmentation. Define and enforce network segmentation throughout your entire hybrid network. Be confident that your network security policies won’t violate your network segmentation strategy. Get a demo > Automatically discover applications and services Never misplace an application on your network. Automatically discover and identify your business applications and their network connectivity. Get a demo > Visualize your entire network Instantly visualize your entire hybrid network security topology – in the cloud, on-premises, and everything in between. Understand the impact of network security policies on traffic, quickly troubleshoot connectivity issues Get a demo > Connect applications to security policy rules Firewall rules support applications or processes that require network connectivity to and from specific servers, users, and networks. With Horizon AppViz, automatically associate the relevant business applications that each firewall rule supports, enabling you to review the firewall rules quickly and easily Get a demo > Bid Goodbye To Tufin & Get Started With AlgoSec Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue © 2004-2023 All rights reserved by AlgoSec

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Explore Algosec's customer success stories to see how organizations worldwide improve security, compliance, and efficiency with our solutions. VERIZON HELPS CLIENTS IMPROVE SECURITY AND BUSINESS AGILITY USING ALGOSEC Organization Verizon Industry Telecom Headquarters NJ, USA Download case study Share Customer
success stories "I selected AlgoSec’s Security Management Solution because the reporting is very trustworthy, it helps reduce the operational workload for network security administrators, and ultimately it improves performance and security." AlgoSec Business Impact Reduce the workload for the operations team and improve efficiency Provide comprehensive trustworthy reporting on change management Improve overall network performance and security Background Verizon is one of the world’s largest global communications companies and an international technology innovator. Verizon provides products and services related to networks, cloud, machine to machine and mobile technologies; data, hosting and storage; and managed security, as well as other wired and wireless offerings to business and government clients around the world. The company’s Global IP Network connects people and businesses in 2,700 cities and 150 countries. Challenge Verizon’s professional services consultants find that their clients too often focus on compliance to the detriment of security and operational issues. “From an auditing perspective, if the firewall is up and running some clients think they are more or less okay,” says Stefano Ciminelli, EMEA Practice Manager, Business Resiliency & Optimization at Verizon Business. Ciminelli warns that clients also need to be certain that “the firewall policies do not contain mistakes—those that could bring down their business. It’s not just a problem of protecting the IT systems, it’s really a matter of protecting the business,” he notes. Firewall management can also create tension between the network security group and business managers. “You always have the network security people focused on IT and the business people who like to focus on change management. Often these two groups don’t really communicate or understand each other easily,” Ciminelli adds.Moreover, many companies have several people devoted to managing firewalls and “firefighting,” “because they simply do not have the right tools,” says Ciminelli. Solution Ciminelli and his team at Verizon wanted to provide their clients with a way to address IT and security issues and, at the same time, automate change management workflows in order to support business continuity.“You want to be operationally efficient; you want to be secure; and especially, you want to help your business do their business. But, when it comes to network firewall management and analysis, you actually have few tools available that help you meet all those goals,” says Ciminelli. From the security manager’s perspective, AlgoSec’s Security Management Solution was the top choice. “The reporting is very trustworthy, it helps reduce the operational workload for network security administrators, and ultimately it improves performance and security,” Ciminelli states. “You can find a lot of vendors for security products in the market. But I don’t want to just sell products. I am entrusted to recommend quality services, so I rely on an extremely trustworthy partner like AlgoSec.” Results Ciminelli reports that when his customers invest in AlgoSec, “they are very happy because they can proactively manage their firewalls.” More importantly, though, “they are not forced to change a rule, close their eyes, cross their fingers and hope that everything is going to be okay.” Customers can trust AlgoSec’s reports to show how a rule change will affect access and their overall security before a change is made, and that there will be no surprises after the fact. The ability to share information between IT and business managers has also provided some unexpected benefits for Ciminelli. “When it comes to asking for additional budget, for instance, IT can now prove value and that makes life easier for everybody,” he notes. Customer service ranks high in Ciminelli’s priorities—and AlgoSec consistently delivers. “Whenever I have a problem I always get very efficient and proactive technical support from the AlgoSec team. This is one of the primary reasons I continue to advise my customers to purchase AlgoSec,” he says. Ciminelli urges his clients and other companies to think broadly about the real purpose of firewall policy management. “What you want is not just a well configured firewall, you want good long-term security management.” The goal is to have a firewall that provides excellent protection as the company grows, needs change, and applications are deployed, changed or decommissioned. Ciminelli’s final recommendation? “Using AlgoSec products and relying on good professional services to help you, that is really the smart choice.” Schedule time with one of our experts

Securely accelerate application delivery by automating application connectivity and security policy across the hybrid network estate. AlgoSecセキュリティマネジメントソリューション Bienvenue! クラウドセキュリティ制御およびオンプレミスファイアウォールのポリシー管理は、細心のバランスを要する作業です。一方でアタックサーフェスと呼ばれる外部脅威への露出を最小限に抑え、リスクを減らし、一方では重要なビジネス・アプリケーションへの接続を提供することで、生産性を向上させる必要があります。そして、ネットワークのセキュリティポリシーの管理プロセスは、常に複雑で、エラーが多く時間のかかるものでした。
しかし、今はもうその必要はありません。 AlgoSecはオンプレミスとクラウド上のネットワークセキュリティポリシーの管理を簡素化、自動化して、企業の俊敏性とセキュリティを強化し、常にコンプライアンスを遵守する環境を提供します。 セキュリティポリシーのライフサイクルマネジメントへ独自のアプローチ AlgoSecは、セキュリティポリシーのライフサイクル全体を管理し、ビジネスアプリケーションの継続的かつ安全な接続を確保するユニークなソリューションです。 アプリケーションのコネクティビティを自動的に検出し、リスクを事前に分析の上で、ネットワークセキュリティの変更を素早く実行、さらにファイアウォールルールを安全に削除することができます。 これらは、お客様のマルチベンダー環境での運用を調和し、自動的かつスムーズに行われます。 AlgoSecソリューションの利用例 クラウド環境とオンプレミス環境のネットワークセキュリティポリシー管理を統一 継続的にコンプライアンスを遵守し、ファイアウォール監査の準備にかかる時間とコストを大幅に削減 迅速かつ安全にアプリケーション接続を提供し、ネットワークのダウンタイムを防止 セキュリティ、ネットワーク、およびアプリケーションチーム間の連携で、DevSecOpsを促進 ファイアウォールの変更管理を自動化し、設定エラーを回避 適切なセキュリティ構成と効果的なネットワークセグメンテーションによりリスクを削減 AlgoSecセキュリティマネジメントソリューション ネットワークセキュリティポリシーの分析 より詳しい情報 Firewall Analyzer セキュリティポリシーの変更を自動化 より詳しい情報 FireFlow ROIを計算 AlgoSecホワイトペーパー コンタクト AlgoSec 日本担当 Email: [email protected] Relevant links TELEFÓNICA MÉXICO Estudio de caso NATURA Estudio de caso Schedule time with one of our experts