AlgoSec Delivers Innovative Application-Centric Security Policy Management
Announcement posted by Acumen Republic 02 May 2013
AlgoSec Delivers Innovative Application-Centric Security Policy Management
New Release includes BusinessFlow™ to align application owners, security and operations teams for improved service delivery
Sydney, Australia – May 2, 2013 – AlgoSec, the market leader for Network Security Policy Management, today announced the general availability of AlgoSec BusinessFlow as an integral product of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite. BusinessFlow bridges the gap between application, security and operations teams by delivering innovative application-centric security policy management that ensures faster service delivery and maximises application availability.
BusinessFlow provides a centralised and consolidated view of business applications and their connectivity needs, translates vague connectivity requirements to the underlying security policy and ensures application availability by providing change impact analysis. Application-Centric security management enables faster deployment and maintenance of business applications for enhanced business agility, and safe application decommissioning for tighter security.
“Network complexity is increasing with the number of applications intertwined with different components and with evolving business needs dictating more changes at a quicker pace,” said Guy Givoni, VP, GM APAC, AlgoSec. “With the AlgoSec Security Management Suite we have filled a critical vacuum in the security management process, tying together business applications and the security policy to minimise security gaps and enable application availability and faster service delivery.”
The AlgoSec Security Management Suite combines AlgoSec BusinessFlow, AlgoSec FireFlow and AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer to streamline security operations and change management, ensure continuous compliance, maximise application availability and service delivery, and deliver a tighter security policy that offers better protection against cyber attacks.
Additional capabilities include:
• Automatic Translation of Connectivity Requirements to Firewall Rules – Quickly and accurately process changes for application connectivity requirements by automatically computing the necessary changes to the underlying firewall rules and triggering the relevant change requests in AlgoSec FireFlow.
• Impact Assessment of Network Changes on Application Availability –Understand the impact that network changes, such as server migrations, may have on business applications and trigger the necessary firewall change requests to ensure application availability.
• Secure Decommission of Applications – Safely remove network access that is no longer required for decommissioned applications to ensure that the security policy is hardened without impacting the availability or performance of other business applications.
• Centralised Application Connectivity Portal – A consolidated and up-to-date view of required application connectivity enables security and network teams to communicate more effectively with business application owners for accelerated service delivery.
• Discovery and Mapping of Underlying Rules and ACLs to Applications – Powerful discovery capabilities enable firewall and router access rules to be mapped to existing applications, dramatically reducing the time and effort to populate the application repository.
• Integration with the AlgoSec Suite and Existing CMDB Systems - BusinessFlow ties into the existing network environment by leveraging AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer for policy analysis, traffic simulation and visualization, AlgoSec FireFlow for security policy change management, and existing CMDB systems to simplify implementation and management.
AlgoSec BusinessFlow is available now. Pricing for BusinessFlow starts at A$85,000.
AlgoSec will be demonstrating the AlgoSec Security Management Suite, including BusinessFlow, at AusCERT stand 57S.
About AlgoSec
AlgoSec is the market leader in network security policy management. AlgoSec enables security and operations teams to intelligently automate the policy management of firewalls, routers, VPNs, proxies and related security devices, improving operational efficiency, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.
More than 1000 of the world’s leading enterprises, MSSPs, auditors and consultancies rely on AlgoSec Security Management Suite for unmatched automation of firewall operations, auditing and compliance, risk analysis and the security change workflow.
AlgoSec is committed to the success of every single customer, and offers the industry's only money-back guarantee.
For more information, visit http://www.algosec.com/.
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