Intelligent CISO Issue 22 | Page 67

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 www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 22 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. 67