FireMon Unveils Industry’s First Agile Network Security Policy Management Platform

FireMon, the leading network security policy management company that brings visibility, control, agility and automation to enterprise cloud and hybrid network infrastructure, today announced the industry’s first agile network security policy management (NSPM) platform, which brings sought after security capabilities to enable cloud and digital transformation initiatives.

“Our customers have told us that traditional approaches to managing network security policy are too cumbersome for their dynamic cloud and hybrid environments,” said Satin H. Mirchandani, President and CEO of FireMon. “Our agile approach to NSPM delivers exactly what they’re asking for -- the ability to efficiently respond to increasing rates of change and heterogeneity while maintaining security and compliance.”

FireMon’s agile solutions for managing network security and compliance were developed in direct response to tectonic shifts in the enterprise technology landscape. Digital transformation, cloud migration, SD-WAN, and DevOps are driving new requirements for security organizations, including the ability to respond to change with intelligent automation and to support deeply complex hybrid-cloud environments. FireMon customers routinely experience up to 90 percent improvements in network security policy efficiency while eliminating common misconfigurations which lead to breaches and compliance violations.

To drive agility across hybrid networks, FireMon solutions leverage its headless orchestration API which allows customers to integrate with any existing system or process including IT Service Management platforms like ServiceNow, Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) tools like Splunk Phantom and Palo Alto Cortex SOAR, and DevOps platforms like Red Hat Ansible and HashiCorp Terraform. This allows customers to easily inject security and compliance into any process. To drive security efficiency and eliminate misconfigurations caused by complexity and manual processes, the platform addresses inefficient rule creation and change processes, delivers risk assessment of change through pre-change simulation and provides policy change recommendation. To meet scale and heterogeneity requirements, FireMon normalizes policy across thousands of firewalls, devices, and cloud security groups through a single interface.

Key features of FireMon’s Agile NSPM platform include:

Unified View for Cloud Security Policies: Because firewall and cloud constructs are fundamentally different, traditional NSPM solutions have treated these environments separately. FireMon has solved this complicated problem and now offers a single, unified interface. Cloud constructs such as security groups are presented natively, even as policy is managed holistically across both cloud and on-prem environments.

Headless Orchestration APIs: Offers the most robust and flexible API on the market and allows integrations with any system or process. Unlike manual processes or competitive alternatives, the FireMon orchestration API gives enterprises the flexibility to inject security or compliance policies at any point in their workflow and to change integration points quickly and easily. The API may be called through code or through the Swagger UI.

Most Extensive Support for SD-WAN and SASE: Customers extend policy and traffic routing definition visibility and management into their SD-WAN enabled devices to track changes, assure agility and reduce risk. With support for Zscaler, Palo Alto CloudGenix, and Cisco Viptela, FireMon provides the most extensive SD-WAN and SASE support on the market.

Customizable Workflows: Simple and clear visual representation of workflows, combined with workflow change features, admins can modify workflows quickly and without the need for extensive professional services, resulting in improved flexibility and agility.

SIQL with Elasticsearch: Customers store and maintain contextual data for customizable and granular search capabilities on any network object for trend analysis, point in time comparisons, or simulations.

FireMon Tags: Customers associate meaningful metadata to their rules and objects and later use this metadata to identify matching rules or objects. FireMon Tags manage network security policies more efficiently, simplifies rule management and reduces the risk that something will be missed when making network or policy changes.

Demonstrable Customer Results:

• 90% efficiency gain by automating firewall support operations
• 80% reduction in firewall and cloud security group misconfigurations
• 90% faster compliance reporting
• Reduction from hours to minutes in blocking malicious actors across a globally distributed network.

“This launch is about giving our customers greater agility and responsiveness at a time when they absolutely need it,” said Jim Birmingham, SVP of Engineering at FireMon. “The new features we’re delivering are to support digital transformation and cloud initiatives while giving our customers the security and compliance assurance that they need.”

Most recently, FireMon secured an additional $40 million in debt financing from the prestigious Silicon Valley Bank to accelerate innovation and sales growth. Additionally, the network security company was deemed critical to National Security by the United States Treasury.

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Supplemental Quotes

“Digital transformation is accelerating your business – and also the complexity of your business-critical network infrastructure. Organizations need to rethink their approach to managing their network security policies, not only to gain the operational efficiencies of automation but also to address the rapidly changing security threat landscape. FireMon’s Agile NSPM is designed to help IT security teams achieve both of these benefits, in addition to enabling the business,” said Derek E. Brink, vice president and research fellow, Aberdeen Group.

“The main benefit [of FireMon] is that it helps us help ourselves and reduce the amount of calories we burn each month or quarter in identifying what issues we need to address in our environment. I can single handedly do the analysis work of an entire remediation team. Admins fight a balance of efficiency and due diligence - just as security teams fight a battle of risk vs. business needs. Having Firemon in house as a solution has helped shape the due diligence and expectations from our administrators," says a security engineer for global airline.

About FireMon

FireMon is the only agile network security policy platform for firewalls and cloud security groups providing the fastest way to streamline network security policy management, which is one of the biggest impediments to IT and enterprise agility. Since creating the first-ever network security policy management solution, FireMon has delivered command and control over complex network security infrastructures for more than 1,700 customers located in nearly 70 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.firemon.com.

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