Strategic firewall policy management

Managing firewall rule sets and policies is a complex and messy business. Simply following a few best practices can go a long way to simplify your life, cut costs, and improve security.

Managing firewall rule sets and policies is a complex and messy business. Simply following a few best practices can go a long way to simplify your life, cut costs, and improve security.

When it comes to much-discussed IT topics, this one certainly doesn't make the list – but it should. In fact, it's one of the most manually intensive, costly aspects of managing almost any network infrastructure and requires a high level of expertise to get right.

Furthermore, make a single mistake and applications get cut off, transactions are not processed, and management consoles quickly go from green to red. The topic here is firewall management.

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