5 strategies to improve firewall management

5 Strategies to Improve Firewall Management: How to Automate Operations, Simplify Compliance Audits and Reduce Risk

• Introduction to AlgoSec

• A Look at Today’s Complex Network

• Strategies to Improve Firewall Management

• Next Steps

• Q&A

Agenda

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Meet our Panelists

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Kevin Beaver, CISSP Information Security Consultant

& Author

Principle Logic, LLC

Nimmy Reichenberg VP of Marketing & Business

Development

AlgoSec

• The Leader in Network Security Policy Management

• Award Winning Security Management Suite

• 800+ customers in 45 countries.

13 of the Fortune 50

• Fast growing - 95% growth in 2011

• Technology Partners include Check Point, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo

Alto Networks, Blue Coat, HP, CA

• “Obsession” for Customer Satisfaction

AlgoSec Introduction

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• Information Security Consultant

• www.principlelogic.com

• Author

• Some of my books include:

About Kevin Beaver

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• Lack of audits

• Mostly manual

• No processes

• Minimal oversight

Issues I See in My Work

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Implement

policies/plans

Enforce

with

technology

Know what

you’ve got Know how

it’s at risk

Refine and

repeat

Next-Gen Firewalls

Virtualized Data Centers

All network firewalls

eventually

Network Complexity is Increasing

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Strategy #1:

Assess the risk of

the firewall policy

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What exactly can

the bad guys see?

Logic and Reasoning

General

lack of

accountability

Strategy #2:

Maintain optimized

firewall rulesets

Logic and Reasoning

Strategy #3:

Manage firewall

changes

One mishap is

worth

hundreds of

thousands of

dollars…

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Sustainable &

Repeatable Process

Control

Visibility

Automation

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ROI for Automating Firewall Change Management

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Annual Savings - $700K

3-Year Savings - $2.1M

Strategy #4:

Keep up with the

rules and regulations

Implement

policies/plans

Enforce

with

technology

Know how

it’s at risk

Refine and

repeat

HIPAA/HITECH

GLBA

SOX

PCI DSS

State breach notification laws

International laws

How is your business impacted?

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We’re compliant,

therefore we’re

secure

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Strategy #5:

Prove where

things stand

Technical issues

Operational Issues

The BIG Oversight

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Your auditor

will be there

waiting…

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Know your compliance status…

immediately and at all times!

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Summary

Implement

policies/plans

Enforce

with

technology

Know what

you’ve got

Know how

it’s at risk

Refine and

repeat

The Magic Formula

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Automation is Key

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My website: principlelogic.com/resources

My blog/videos: securityonwheels.com/blog

My audio programs: securityonwheels.com

My books:

Let’s Connect: @kevinbeaver

www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbeaver

Kevin’s Information

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• Firewall Management: 5 Challenges Every Company

Must Address http://pages.algosec.com/five_common_challenges.htm

• Trends in Firewall Configuration – Measuring the

holes in Swiss cheese (Research by Prof. Wool) http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1240

• Firewall Management ROI Calculator http://www.algosec.com/resources/roi_calculator/

• Evaluate the AlgoSec Security Management Suite AlgoSec.com/eval

Next Steps and Q&A

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