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how can you elevate digital transformation and cloud migration efforts, without neglecting your security Does it have to be one or the other, and if not, what steps should be taken in your transformation journeys to ensure that network security remains a priority Webinars Intelligent change automation for your Cisco environment and beyond Learn how transitioning to application-centric intelligent automation can save time and resources Managing modern network environments has become increasingly complex in a multi-cloud, multi -vendor environment. Network policy change implementation and ensured application connectivity also become harder in a siloed network. Transitioning to application-centric intelligent automation can save time and resources that can be shifted towards your company’s core objectives. In this webinar we show you how you can: • Accelerate application delivery through intelligent change automation • Remove blind spots in your network • Focus on the critical risks the matter • Bake hardened security policies into your application delivery pipeline January 17, 2023 Avivi Siman Tov Director of Product Jacqueline Basil Product Marketing Manager Relevant resources Automate the entire security policy change management process with zero touch Watch Video Increasing Cisco ACI adoption with AlgoSec Keep Reading Change Management A Day In The Life Read Document Choose a better way to manage your network Choose a better way to manage your network Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

Top 10 cloud security tips and best practices for 2025 Select a size Which network Can AlgoSec be used for continuous compliance monitoring? Yes, AlgoSec supports continuous compliance monitoring. As organizations adapt their security policies to meet emerging threats and address new vulnerabilities, they must constantly verify these changes against the compliance frameworks they subscribe to. AlgoSec can generate risk assessment reports and conduct internal audits on-demand, allowing compliance officers to monitor compliance performance in real-time. Security professionals can also use AlgoSec to preview and simulate proposed changes to the organization’s security policies. This gives compliance officers a valuable degree of lead-time before planned changes impact regulatory guidelines and allows for continuous real-time monitoring. Top 10 cloud security tips & best practices for 2025 This year’s cloud security recommendations look slightly different from previous years. There are two key reasons for this: New technologies like GenAI and agentic apps have emerged. Attackers are using more sophisticated techniques to exploit cloud assets and evade detection. For example, what used to be basic, easy-to-spot phishing has now become extensive vishing and deep-fake campaigns that even technical experts fall for. To stay ahead of 2025’s threats, the following cloud security best practices are essential. Quick review: What is cloud security and why are cloud security best practices important? Cloud security consists of the controls, policies, and technologies implemented for protecting cloud environments from threats. This includes data, services, applications, configurations, and GenAI models in the cloud. As access to technology has democratized how threat actors launch attacks, cloud security has taken on new meaning and is no longer solely about defense. With cutting-edge tools that often rival many organizations’ defenses at attackers’ disposal, proactive prevention is a must. 10 tips for cloud security Implementing the following recommendations will increase the security of your cloud assets and enhance your overall security posture. 1. Understand the shared responsibility model Traditionally, CSPs (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) handle securing your underlying cloud infrastructure and managed services. You, as the customer, need to secure everything running in the cloud (data, applications, configurations, etc.). However, with the arrival of GenAI, companies now also have to worry about safeguarding AI data and AI models. Tips: Understand and embrace your roles as specified by your provider. Establish explicit agreements with providers and supply chain vendors to ensure the integrity of third-party assets. Facilitate shared accountability. 2. Prioritize AI security New technologies come with unknown risks, and adopting them without proper safeguards is an invitation to attack. Tips: Use software composition analysis (SCA) to detect and block vulnerable AI packages to eliminate backdoors that hackers could exploit to attack your cloud environment. Protect your AI training data, model tuning pipelines, and inference endpoints with encryption, strict access controls, and AI-specific guardrails (e.g., model drift detection). Verify provider-enforced tenant isolation to safeguard your AI workloads from multi-tenant risks like data leakage and unauthorized access. Continuously monitor model behavior to spot common AI risks such as model poisoning and compromised AI APIs. Implement input/output validation using dedicated filtering tools (e.g., NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails) to block prompt injection, data exfiltration, and similar attacks. 3. Adopt shift-left security Shift-left security is the practice of securing cloud-native applications and APIs from the development phase. This dramatically reduces your threat footprint and remediation costs. Tips: Embrace secure coding ; integrate automated security and compliance checks (triggered at every pull request or commit) into the CI pipeline; this instantly flags and resolves vulnerable or non-compliant code before it goes live. Use secure container images from trusted sources; scanning for vulnerabilities enhances runtime security and minimizes potential attacker entry points. Store secrets securely (e.g., in HashiCorp Vault) and embed secret detection into developer workflows to uncover hardcoded secrets; this prevents threat actors from gaining a foothold in your cloud environment via exposed secrets. Shield-right as you shift-left, e.g., by enforcing real-time monitoring to detect any blind spots early; this helps deter hackers, who thrive on missed vulnerabilities. 4. Manage identity and access with least privilege and zero trust Embrace centralized identity and access management (IAM), defining policies that govern who can access what. Tips: Implement least privilege (e.g., via RBAC and ABAC), ensuring only essential human and machine identities can access cloud and AI workloads. Adopt a zero trust architecture, segmenting workloads and continuously verifying access rights with MFA, within and outside your network perimeter. Regularly review access rights to revoke unnecessary permissions. 5. Harden configurations Cloud assets, AI workloads, networks, and identities are all pretty easy to misconfigure—making them top causes of breaches. Tips: Validate IaC templates to eliminate security risks before code is shipped. Continuously assess cloud configurations to resolve publicly exposed assets fast. Autonomously enforce security policies with PaC for consistent security and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud workloads. Enforce timely patching with automated patch management tools to fix vulnerabilities before they become attack vectors. Regularly audit firewall rules to spot misconfigurations that could compromise your cloud resources and networks. 6. Address shadow IT Shadow IT elements (e.g., unsanctioned VMs, data, APIs, and GPUs) are top security risks because they evade centralized governance and monitoring. Tips: Establish policies that balance security with productivity to eliminate the need to bypass centralized security. Automatically block unauthorized deployments from the source, using policies that require resources to be provisioned solely through approved templates. Continuously monitor data flows to discover and resolve shadow IT. 7. Embrace real-time monitoring, detection, and response Continuous monitoring spots threats and anomalies, such as unusual login patterns or configuration changes, before full-blown attacks occur. Tips: Track user behavior in real time to spot lateral movement, model misuse, and other early warning signs of attacks. Predict and prevent potential threats by using AI-powered analytics. Map external exposures to real-world attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) using frameworks like MITRE. 8. Encrypt data Encrypting data and storing encryption keys securely keeps data undecipherable in the event of a breach. However, with the rise of AI and edge computing, you need more than encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES). Tips: Leverage confidential computing techniques like hardware-enforced trusted execution environments (TEEs) for encryption in use (during processing, e.g., for AI model training). Future-proof your data with quantum-resistant cryptography, like hash or code-based cryptography. 9. Automate compliance management Regulatory standards change frequently as technologies and security risks evolve. Companies must stay on top of their compliance posture . Tips: Use automated compliance management tools that keep up with evolving frameworks, including AI-specific standards like the NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act, as well as new policies from PCI DSS, NIST, etc. Maintain regular audit trails to provide audit-ready proof demonstrating your compliance with regulatory bodies and customers. 10. Incident management Having incident management procedures, including prevention and response playbooks, means teams are not left scrambling when incidents happen, i.e., when tensions are usually high and mistakes costly. Tips: Automate incident response with tools that offer autonomous context-based remediation and AI-augmented playbooks; this shortens the compromise-to-containment window. Educate teams on how to secure software development, safeguard third-party component usage, and deal with AI-powered phishing campaigns. Implementing cloud security best practices with AlgoSec Security breaches are costly, with the average figure now standing at $4.44 million , according to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report. This number can go even higher due to outages, lawsuits, fines, and bad press. The cloud security best practices discussed in this post will help you stay ahead of 2025’s threat landscape and avoid unwanted impacts on your bottom line. AlgoSec can help. Designed to simplify robust cloud security in 2025 and beyond, it offers a suite of tools for cloud network security , cloud security and compliance , zero trust implementation , firewall management , incident response , and more. Get started on improving your cloud security. Sign up for a demo of AlgoSec today. Get the latest insights from the experts Schedule time with one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

The joint offering helps enterprises tighten their security posture, effectively mitigate Ransomware and other Cyberattacks and ensure long-term sustainability Deloitte and AlgoSec Partner to Establish a Joint Network Protection Transformation Solution for Enterprises The joint offering helps enterprises tighten their security posture, effectively mitigate Ransomware and other Cyberattacks and ensure long-term sustainability November 9, 2020 Speak to one of our experts RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., November 9, 2020 – The EMEA Telecom Engineering Centre of Excellence (TEE) of Deloitte (located in Portugal) and AlgoSec , the leading provider of business-driven network security management solutions, have entered into an alliance to establish a network protection transformation offer to safeguard clients against complex threats and attacks. The combined team will deliver, operate, and maintain a network protection offer with joint functions managed between Deloitte and AlgoSec. Deloitte TEE will focus on delivering business process transformation capabilities, business and technical advisory and project management to ensure reliability and sustainability on the proposed capabilities, while AlgoSec will provide technical support to customize, deploy and operate the tool to accelerate and automate the network security management, and ensure the offer is aligned with the business’ requirements. The Deloitte and AlgoSec joint offering provides a business-centric approach to network security management across the entire hybrid and multi-vendor environment. The solution offers comprehensive visibility across the network security environment and business applications, agile and secure policy change management via zero touch automation, and continuous compliance assurance. The offering also includes a Network Security Hardening Service, which begins to understand the Client’s network level of exposure, current vulnerabilities and the potential impact of network threats, before performing a transformation strategy to strengthen current capabilities and remediate network risks and vulnerabilities, followed by a Network Security Managed Service to monitor and guarantee long-term sustainability. Deloitte TEE will also become a reselling partner to support AlgoSec in the global market, using a structured offer model with advantages for the partnership and the client. Jade Kahn, AlgoSec CMO said: “Network protection should be a priority for companies to mitigate the damage caused by an increasing number of complex cyber threats. With an appropriate strategy in place, they can identify and contain threats before they are able to move freely across the network. We look forward to working alongside Deloitte and delivering value to its clients.” Pedro Tavares, Partner of Deloitte Portugal and responsible for the EMEA Telecom Engineering Centre of Excellence (TEE): “TEE focus is on delivering high value telecoms engineering consultancy services towards our customers, and under the ongoing digitalization wave and in the advent of 5G, setting up a Network Protection offer to ensure that this improvement in the connectivity, communication and user experience do not bring substantial business risks is a key stepping stone towards this strategy. We expect with this combined offer to support our clients in improving their network security, mitigating their network risks and enhancing their key Capabilities to ensure a sustainable transformation of their business”. About AlgoSec The leading provider of business-driven network security management solutions, AlgoSec helps the world’s largest organizations align security with their mission-critical business processes. With AlgoSec, users can discover, map and migrate business application connectivity, proactively analyze risk from the business perspective, tie cyber-attacks to business processes and intelligently automate network security changes with zero touch – across their cloud, SDN and on-premise networks. Over 1,800 enterprises, including 20 of the Fortune 50, have utilized AlgoSec’s solutions to make their organizations more agile, more secure and more compliant – all the time. Since 2005, AlgoSec has shown its commitment to customer satisfaction with the industry’s only money-back guarantee . All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners. 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Our global network of member firms and related entities in more than 150 countries and territories (collectively, the “Deloitte organization”) serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies. Learn how Deloitte’s more than 330,000 people make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com . About EMEA Telecom Engineering Centre of Excellence (TEE) The EMEA Telecom Engineering Centre of Excellence (TEE) is an operational area specialized in telecom engineering services, managed by Deloitte Portugal, that offers engineering services for mobile, fixed and convergent telecom networks, service platforms and operating support systems (“OSS”) for the Europe, Middle East, Africa region (“EMEA”).

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Compared to on-premises data storage, cloud computing comes with a lot of benefits. On-demand access to company data, flexibility, and... Cloud Security What is a Cloud Security Assessment? (and How to Perform One) Rony Moshkovich 2 min read Rony Moshkovich Short bio about author here Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. Vitae donec tincidunt elementum quam laoreet duis sit enim. Duis mattis velit sit leo diam. Tags Share this article 7/12/23 Published Compared to on-premises data storage, cloud computing comes with a lot of benefits. On-demand access to company data, flexibility, and fast collaboration are just a few. But along with these advantages come increased security risks. To manage them, companies should invest in regular cloud security assessments. What Is a Cloud Security Risk Assessment? A cloud security assessment evaluates the potential vulnerabilities of an organization’s cloud environment. These assessments are essential to mitigate risks and ensure the continued security of cloud-based systems. By looking at cloud applications, services, and data, companies can better understand the biggest threats to their cloud environment. By managing these threats, businesses can avoid costly workflow interruptions. A security assessment can be done by an organization’s internal security team or by an outside security expert. This can happen one time only, or it can be done regularly as part of an organization’s overall cybersecurity plan. How Do Cloud Security Risk Assessments Protect Your Business? Cloud-based systems and services are an essential part of most businesses nowadays. Unfortunately, what makes them convenient is also what makes them vulnerable to security threats. A cloud security risk assessment helps organizations find out what might go wrong and prevent it from happening. It also helps with prioritizing and managing the most serious issues before they become full-on data breaches. One way assessments do this is by identifying misconfigurations. Cloud misconfigurations are behind many security breaches. They result from errors introduced by network engineers working on early cloud systems. A cloud security assessment earmarks these and other outmoded security features for repair. What’s more, cloud security assessments identify third-party risks from APIs or plugins. When your company identifies risks and manages permissions, you keep your cloud environment safe. By mitigating third-party risks, you can still benefit from outside vendors. Of course, none of this information is valuable without employee education. Employees need to know about risks and how to stop them; this is the best way to reduce the number of security incidents caused by human error or carelessness. To put it simply, a cloud security assessment helps your business run smoothly. When you know the risks your company faces and can manage them, you reduce the impact of security-related incidents. That means you can recover faster and get back to work sooner. 7 Benefits of Cloud Security Risk Assessments Cloud security risk assessments provide lots of benefits. They can help you: Improve cloud security posture . Understanding the ins and outs of a cloud-based system helps organizations plan better. For example, they can modify their security budget or improve their risk management strategy based on the results. Uncover security vulnerabilities . Cloud security assessments pinpoint weak spots. This includes misconfigurations , access control issues, and missing multi-factor authentications (MFAs). Once identified, organizations can fix the issues and avoid security breaches. Develop a more secure multi-cloud environment . Most organizations use multiple cloud platforms. Usually, this involves private or public clouds or a combination of both. This is ideal from a financial and agility perspective. But every extra layer in a cloud environment introduces potential risks. A cloud security assessment is essential in identifying these cross-cloud threats. Achieve compliance with industry standards and regulatory bodies . Ensuring compliance with GDPR, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA helps protect organizations from millions of dollars of potential fines . Manage your reputation. A sensitive data leak or other cloud security incident damages a company’s reputation. Think of companies like Target, Facebook, and LinkedIn. All have faced backlash after security breaches . Conducting cloud security assessments shows that organizations value customer and stakeholder privacy. Detect past threats . A cloud security assessment looks for things that might be wrong with the way your cloud system is set up. It can also help you find out if there have been any past security problems. By doing this, you can see if someone has tried to tamper with the security of your cloud system in the past, which could signal a bigger problem. Increase efficiency . Cloud security assessments show you which security measures are working and which aren’t. By getting rid of security tools that aren’t needed, employees have more time to work on other tasks. Cost savings . The most compelling reason to run a cloud security assessment is that it helps save money. Cost savings come from eliminating unnecessary security measures and from missed work time due to breaches. What Risks Do Cloud Security Assessments Look For? Cloud security assessments focus on six areas to identify security vulnerabilities in your cloud infrastructure: overall security posture, access control and management, incident management, data protection, network security, and risk management and compliance. Some specific risks cloud security assessments look for include: Cloud Misconfigurations Misconfigurations are one of the most common threats to overall security posture. In fact, McAfee’s enterprise security study found that enterprises experience 3,500 security incidents per month because of misconfigurations. From improperly stored passwords to insecure automated backups, misconfiguration issues are everywhere. Because they’re so common, fixing this issue alone can reduce the risk of a security breach by up to 80%, according to Gartner . Access Control and Management Problems This assessment also highlights ineffective access control and management. One way it does this is by identifying excessive network permissions. Without the proper guardrails (like data segmentation) in place, an organization’s attack surface is greater. Plus, its data is at risk from internal and external threats. If an employee has too much access to a company’s network, they might accidentally delete or change important information. This could cause unintended system problems. Additionally, if hackers get access to the company’s network, they could easily steal important data. Cloud security assessments also look at credentials as part of user account management. A system that uses only static credentials for users or cloud workloads is a system at risk. Without multifactor authentication (MFA) in place, hackers can gain access to your system and expose your data. Improper Incident Management and Logging When it comes to incident management, a cloud security assessment can reveal insufficient or improper logging — problems that make detecting malicious activities more difficult. Left unchecked, the damage is more severe, making recovery more time-consuming and expensive. Insufficient Data and Network Security Data protection and network security go hand in hand. Without proper network controls in place (for example firewalls and intrusion detection), data in the cloud is vulnerable to attack. A cloud security assessment can identify gaps in both areas. Based on the results of a cloud security assessment, a company can make a risk management plan to help them react as quickly and effectively as possible in the event of an attack. The last aspect of cloud security the assessment looks at is compliance with industry standards. 7 Steps To Perform a Cloud Security Assessment The main components of cloud security assessments include: Identifying your cloud-based assets, discovering vulnerabilities through testing, generating recommendations, and retesting once the issues have been addressed. The steps to performing a cloud security assessment are as follows: Step One: Define the project Get a picture of your cloud environment. Look at your cloud service providers (CSPs), third-party apps, and current security tools. First, decide which parts of your system will be evaluated. Next, look at the type of data you’re handling or storing. Then consider the regulations your business must follow. Step Two: Identify potential threats Look at both internal and external threats to your cloud-based system. This could include endpoint security, misconfigurations, access control issues, data breaches, and more. Then figure out how likely each type of attack is. Finally, determine what impact each attack would have on your business operations. Step Three: Examine your current security system Look for vulnerabilities in your existing cloud security. In particular, pay attention to access controls, encryption, and network security. Step Four: Test Penetration testing, port scanners, and vulnerability scanners are used to find weaknesses in your cloud environment that were missed during the original risk assessment. Step Five: Analyze Look at the results and determine which weaknesses need immediate attention. Deal with the issues that will have the biggest impact on your business first. Then, focus on the issues most likely to occur. Finish by handling lower-priority threats. Step Six: Develop an action plan Come up with a time-bound remediation plan. This plan should spell out how your organization will deal with each security vulnerability. Assign roles and responsibilities as part of your incident response program. Depending on the results, this could include updating firewalls, monitoring traffic logs, and limiting access control. Step Seven: Maintain Cloud security assessments can be done as a one-off, but it’s much better to monitor your systems regularly. Frequent monitoring improves your organization’s threat intelligence. It also helps you identify and respond to new threats in real time. Getting Help With Your Cloud Security Assessment Cloud security assessment tools are used to identify vulnerabilities in a cloud infrastructure which could lead to data loss or compromise by attackers. As an agentless cloud security posture management (CSPM) tool , Prevasio helps identify and fix security threats across all your cloud assets in minutes. Our deep cloud scan checks for security weaknesses, malware, and compliance. This helps ensure that your company’s cloud environment is protected against potential risks. But any CSPM can do that . Prevasio is the only solution that provides container security dynamic behavior analysis. Our technology spots hidden backdoors in your container environments. It also identifies supply chain attack risks. Paired with our container security static analysis for vulnerabilities and malware, your containers will never be safer. Our CSPM works across multi-cloud, multi-accounts, cloud-native services , and cloud assets. Whether you’re using Microsoft Azure, S3 buckets in AWS, or Cosmos DB in GCP, Prevasio is the security system your company has been looking for. But we do more than identify security threats. We increase your team’s efficiency. How? By providing a prioritized list of cloud risks ranked according to CIS benchmarks. That means no more uncertainty about what needs to get done. Our easy-to-understand results help your team concentrate on the most important things. This saves time and money by reducing the need for extra administrative work. A Final Word on Cloud Security Assessments Performing regular cloud security assessments helps your business spot security issues before they become major problems. When you reinforce your security controls and define your incident response plan, you make your organization more efficient. Plus, you keep things going even when issues arise. Put together, these proactive measures can save you money. Sign up today and see how Prevasio can help your team ! FAQs About Cloud Security Assessments What are the four areas of cloud security? The four pillars of cloud security are data availability, data confidentiality, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. What is included in a security assessment? Cloud security assessments include: Identifying your cloud-based assets, discovering vulnerabilities through testing, generating recommendations, and retesting once the issues have been addressed. Schedule a demo Related Articles Q1 at AlgoSec: What innovations and milestones defined our start to 2026? AlgoSec Reviews Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read 2025 in review: What innovations and milestones defined AlgoSec’s transformative year in 2025? AlgoSec Reviews Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read Navigating Compliance in the Cloud AlgoSec Cloud Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read Speak to one of our experts Speak to one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... 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success stories "AlgoSec worked right out of the box. We got started quickly and never looked back.” A leading insurance provider of life, disability and other benefits for individuals increases efficiency and ensures continuous compliance on their networks. Background This life insurance company provides insurance and wealth-management products and services to millions of Americans. The company employs thousands of people and maintains a network of several thousand financial representatives. They offer a wide range of insurance products and services that include life insurance, disability income insurance, annuities, investments, dental and vision. Challenges For decades, the company operated a large and growing data center in Bethlehem, PA which they recently transferred to Dallas, TX. During and since the transfer, the company has been replacing much of its multi-vendor network infrastructure, consolidating on Cisco Firepower technology, but still maintaining vestiges of other routers, firewalls and network equipment. At the new data center, the company’s IT staff maintains more than 100 firewalls that host some 10,000 rules. The company’s network security engineer described the considerable pressure on the security staff: “Change requests are frequent, 25-30 per week, demanding considerable time and effort by the security team.” Due to the presence of firewalls from multiple vendors, change requests were analyzed manually and pushed to devices with great care so as not to interrupt the operation of a rapidly growing body of applications. “The change–request process was tedious and very time consuming,” declared the engineer. “as was the pressure to maintain a strong compliance posture at all times.” The company is subject to a litany of demanding insurance-industry regulations that concern the care of personal information and processes. Managing risk is critical to the success of the business and being able to ascertain compliance with regulations is always vital. Solution The security team turned to AlgoSec to help them manage network security policy across the large data center that includes firewalls from multiple vendors. After a careful review, the security team acquired AlgoSec’s Horizon Security Analyzer to speed up the process of firewall change management as well as to continuously quantify the degree of compliance and level of risk. Vendor-agnostic AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer delivers visibility and analysis of complex network security policies across on–premise and cloud networks. It automates and simplifies security operations including troubleshooting, auditing and risk analysis. Horizon Security Analyzer optimizes the configuration of firewalls, routers, web proxies and related network infrastructure to ensure security and compliance. Results After a very short installation and learning period, the security staff became proficient at operating Horizon Security Analyzer helpful capabilities. Soon thereafter, staff members undertook AlgoSec certification courses to become experts in using the solution for firewall analysis. “AlgoSec worked right out of the box,” said the engineer. “We got started quickly and never looked back.” The AlgoSec solution has significantly improved processes, delivering significantly improved results for their security team: Reduced time to analyze and optimize firewall rules, automatically checking for shadow rules and discovering other rules eligible for consolidation or deletion. Continual optimization of firewall rules across their entire network estate. Increased efficiency of security staff, enabling them to keep up with the volume of change requests. Accelerated and more accurate change verification. Audit-readiness, generating scheduled and on-demand compliance reports. The security staff looks forward to implementing AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow (AFF), that will enable them to push changes automatically to their population of firewalls, eliminating errors and further reducing risk. With AFF, the staff will be able to respond to changing business requirements with increased speed and agility. They added: “We are also checking out AlgoSec’s new cloud-security solution since we are migrating a growing number of applications to AWS.” Schedule time with one of our experts

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The goal of the AlgoSec Professional Services Team is to partner with you and enable you to meet your budget, time and resource constraints AlgoSec professional services Service offerings We offer a variety of à la carte Professional Services to help you quickly benefit from your AlgoSec investment. AlgoSec JumpStart packages View detailed information Through our new JumpStart packages we will deploy your AlgoSec products quickly and cost-effectively within your environment, so that you can start generating value from your AlgoSec investment as soon as possible Basic deployment of the AlgoSec security management suite View detailed information This service includes installing your AlgoSec appliances with the most recent build of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite including AlgoSec Horizon Security Analyzer and/or AlgoSec Horizon FireFlow and/or AlgoSec BusinessFlow, then verifying connectivity and defining devices. We will also verify that the reporting functionality works properly for each deployed device, and will provide sufficient knowledge transfer to enable you to perform basic operations in your AlgoSec environment. AlgoSec technical audit View detailed information Get a technical audit of your running AlgoSec environment – remotely or on-premises. Make sure you are optimally configured to get the best performance and functionality. Identify critical issues, receive insights and actionable suggestions to help you improve your network, identify issues that may have arisen since deployment, as well as recommendations for architectural improvements and optimization. AlgoSec Technical Audit is recommended once a year, and at least 6 months following initial deployment. Integration with existing Change Management Systems (CMS) View detailed information We can seamlessly integrate with any existing CMS including ServiceNow, Remedy, ServiceDesk and others. We can integrate your CMS system with AlgoSec via a Web Services call, as well as import historical change requests into AlgoSec. Advanced configuration View detailed information Suitable for complex, enterprise environments, this service includes verifying requirements and designing the appropriate topology for: High-Availability or Disaster-Recovery modes Load Distribution mode Geographical Distribution or Central-Manager / Remote-Agent mode Develop custom reports View detailed information We can create custom risk profiles and baseline configuration reports to meet your unique needs. Develop custom change workflows View detailed information While AlgoSec includes several out-of-the-box workflows, we can develop custom workflows to meet your unique needs. Customization options include creating the different steps in a change process, managing the ticket lifecycle based on your processes, dynamically routing tickets to required approvers and changing request form fields and appearance. Project management and customer success management View detailed information We can provide on-going project management to support your AlgoSec implementation. We provide regular status updates and meetings to ensure that the project is on schedule and meets your requirements. Schedule time with one of our experts Schedule time with one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* Long answer Send message