decrypting myths
The four essentials
for effective
network security
policy management
Kyle Wickert, Worldwide
Strategic Architect at AlgoSec,
explains how to choose
the right security policy
management solution that
will drive your organisation’s
agility while ensuring security
and compliance.
E
nterprise IT
must deliver
more, faster. As
cyberattacks
increase in
volume and
sophistication,
IT groups are finding themselves ill-
equipped to secure their networks and
maintain compliance while supporting
business productivity. In this era of
Digital Transformation, managing
security across complex enterprise
networks presents huge challenges.
Automation will ease the pressure.
Yet harnessing the power of security
automation – that is, via a network
security policy management (NSPM)
solution – requires a series of strategic
decisions. Which solution is best for your
needs and what features are essential?
Intelligent automation: More than
just defining policies
First, let’s consider what functionality
your NSPM should incorporate. Security
policy management is so much more
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than just looking at a device and adding
some rules. It’s about enhancing and
automating time-consuming security
processes, so that personnel can focus
on more strategic tasks.
Good NSPM solutions achieve this
by augmenting the human know-how
already within an organisation with
automation. From there, actionable and
intelligent analysis is added throughout
the organisation’s workflows. The actual
Visibility is the
foundation for
a streamlined,
automated and
ultimately intelligent
approach to network
security policy
management.
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