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Network Change Automation Use Cases

Streamline change management with automation.

Ensure continuous regulatory compliance.

Optimize and clean up firewall rules.

Identify and mitigate security risks early.

Automated Change Management

Reduce manual effort and minimize the risk of human error by integrating with ITSM platforms and providing real-time change tracking. 

  • Integrate with popular IT service management (ITSM) platforms and ticketing systems, such as ServiceNow and Jira, to automate the change request process.  
  • Automate approval workflows to ensure that changes are reviewed and approved by the appropriate personnel before implementation, reducing manual effort and minimizing the risk of human error.  
  • Leverage real-time tracking and notifications of change requests, allowing your IT teams to monitor the status and progress of migration changes as they move through the approval and implementation stages. 

Policy Compliance Automation

Ensure continuous adherence to regulatory standards and internal policies through automated compliance checks and reporting, reducing the risk of non-compliance and facilitating easier audits.

  • Continuously monitor firewall configurations against regulatory standards and internal security policies, automatically flagging non-compliant rules and configurations.  
  • Leverage predefined compliance templates that include predefined checks for common compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, and NERC CIP.  
  • Generate detailed compliance reports that highlight any deviations from compliance standards, making it easier for stakeholders to identify and address issues before they become critical. 

Automatic Rule Optimization

Automatically identify and correct overly permissive, redundant, or shadowed rules and automate the recertification process to detect expired rules and generate cleanup routing and reporting.

  • Analyze traffic patterns within your business processes to automatically optimize firewall rules, identifying overly permissive or redundant rules and suggesting more precise configurations.  
  • Continuously monitor and analyze rule usage for a roadmap on rules that are no longer needed or could be optimized.  
  • Detect and address partially or fully shadowed rules and redundant rules that could lead to security vulnerabilities or unnecessary complexity.  
  • Schedule regular reviews of firewall rules to ensure they remain necessary and effective.  
  • Generate detailed reports highlighting rules and objects that are candidates for cleanup, providing actionable insights to streamline the rule base. 

Proactive Risk Identification

Proactively identify and address potential security risks and compliance issues before implementing network changes with process automation.

  • Perform risk assessments before implementing network changes, identifying potential security risks and compliance issues that could arise from the proposed changes.  
  • Automatically detect rule violations and exceptions, enabling IT team members to address them proactively and prevent security breaches.  
  • Simulate changes in a controlled environment to assess their impact on security and compliance before applying them to the live network.

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Firewall Management Resources

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SecureTrack+

Firewall & Security Policy Management: Drive your security policy journey with SecureTrack+

  • Centralize network security policy management, risk mitigation and compliance monitoring across firewalls, NGFWs, routers, switches, SDN and hybrid cloud
  • Automate policy optimization
  • Prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilities
  • Prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilitiess

SecureChange+

Network Security Change Automation: Enhance your visbility and automate mundane tasks with SecureChange+

  • Achieve continuous compliance
  • Reduce network change SLAs by up to 90% with network change design and rule lifecycle management
  • Identify risky attack vectors and detect lateral movement
  • Troubleshoot connectivity issues across the hybrid cloud

Enterprise

Zero-Trust Network Security at Scale: Fortify your network security operations with Enterprise

  • Achieve zero-touch automation through provisioning of network access changes
  • Deploy apps faster through application connectivity management
  • Minimize downtime and data loss with High Availability and built-in redundancy
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