55% of Applications Are Not Deployed Correctly Due to Incorrect or Missing Connectivity Data; 40% of Admins Are Not Notified When Applications are Decommissioned
Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Process Automation Solutions, today announced the results of a recent survey. Previous Tufin surveys revealed that because application connectivity requirements drive the vast majority of firewall changes, managing application connectivity has become the number one firewall management challenge. This survey, conducted in April at InfoSecurity UK, was designed to get a better understanding of the problem. 105 IT professionals, ranging from network administrators to CIOs, reported that network security teams deploy applications based on incomplete or inaccurate connectivity data, resulting in delays, downtime, and unnecessary risk and compliance exposure.
Application Connectivity Challenges: A Quick Overview
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"This survey highlights the fact that security engineers are having to adopt new processes on the fly - processes that require them to interact with a new set of stakeholders," said Reuven Harrison, CTO, Tufin. "As a result they are not just changing who they work with but how they work. Anyone who has experienced this kind of change knows it is not easy. That's why we are putting so much development effort into SecureApp. SecureApp provides a much needed application connectivity model on top of our network abstraction layer, enabling security teams to rise above any existing technology constraints and collaborate with other IT groups for a common goal - application delivery and business agility.