AlgoSec

Case Study: NCR Corporation's Network Security Transformation with AlgoSec

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:59:33 GMT

Discover how NCR Corporation successfully integrated AlgoSec's Security Policy Management Solution into their network infrastructure. Learn how AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer, FireFlow, AppViz, and AppChange enabled NCR to automate security policy changes, improve visibility, streamline auditing, and achieve zero trust. Explore the benefits of AlgoSec's comprehensive suite of tools in enhancing network security for a global organization like NCR.

Master the Zero Trust Strategy for Improved Cybersecurity

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:01:07 GMT

In today's digital world, cyber threats are becoming more complex and sophisticated. Businesses must adopt a proactive approach to cybersecurity to protect their sensitive data and systems. This is where zero trust security comes in - a security model that requires every user, device, and application to be verified before granting access.

If you're looking to implement zero trust security in your business or want to know more about how it works, join our upcoming webinar. AlgoSec co-Founder and CTO Avishai Wool will discuss the benefits of zero trust security and provide you with practical tips on how to implement this security model in your organization.

Zero Trust Framework for Network Security

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:11:27 GMT

With the increasing number of cyber threats, securing your network has become a top priority. Zero Trust Architecture is a new approach to cybersecurity that has proven to be effective in protecting against these threats. By incorporating Zero Trust principles into your security infrastructure, you can rest assured that your sensitive data is protected.

In this informative video, Prof. Avishai Wool, CTO and Co-Founder of AlgoSec, discusses the key principles of Zero Trust and provides practical tips on how to integrate it into your existing security infrastructure.

Don't miss this opportunity to take your security to the next level! Watch this video now and start implementing the best practices for Zero Trust Architecture.

Taking Charge of Application Security

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:33:04 GMT

Eric Jeffery, AlgoSec's venerable regional solutions engineer, calls on the attention of AppSec network engineers and offers sage advice to organizations how to align their AppSec teams with their business goals. To learn more go to https://algosec.com/

How to modernize your infrastructure without neglecting security.mp4

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:28:45 GMT

Moving enterprise applications onto the cloud can deliver several benefits, including increased data protection, enhanced business agility, and significant cost savings. However, if the migration isn’t appropriately executed, your hybrid cloud network could be compromised. The key is to balance your digital transformation efforts by improving your infrastructure while providing all the necessary security controls.

In this webinar, our expert panel dives into the steps required to migrate applications without sacrificing security.
Join us in this session to learn how to:

• Transfer the security elements of your application onto the cloud
• Find ways to lower migration costs and reduce risks through better preparation
• Modernize your infrastructure with the help of superior visibility
• Structure your security policies across your entire hybrid and multi-cloud network

5 ways AlgoSec enhances your F5 Security Posture Management

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:11:50 GMT

Discover the benefits of integrating AlgoSec with your entire security infrastructure including F5 Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) & Local Traffic Manager (LTM).

Top 5 Predictions & Best Practices for 2022

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:09:54 GMT

In this video, Prof. Avishai Wool, AlgoSec CTO and co-founder, provides his expert opinion on the Top 5 ongoing and new challenges in cybersecurity and network security management expected to take place in 2022 and offers invaluable best practices. To learn more, please contact us to set up a demo at https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

Build and enforce defense in-depth | An AlgoSec-Cisco Tetration webinar

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:39:29 GMT

Jothi Prakash Prabakaran, Senior Product Manager (Cisco), Yoni Geva, Product Manager (AlgoSec) | July 2020

Micro-segmentation protects your workloads and applications against lateral movement of malware and limits the spread of insider threats, yet successfully implementing a defense-in-depth strategy using micro-segmentation is complicated. In this technical webinar, Jothi Prakash Prabakaran, Senior Product Manager at Cisco, and Yoni Geva, Product Manager at AlgoSec, will provide a step-by-step blueprint to implementing this strategy using the micro-segmentation capabilities of Cisco Tetration and network security policy management capabilities of AlgoSec.

They will demonstrate how to tighten your security posture within the data center using an allow-list approach. They will also show how to enforce these granular micro-segmented policies enforced on the workloads with Cisco Tetration and a coarse grain policy enforced across the infrastructure through AlgoSec network security policy management.

Watch this webinar to learn how to:
• Understand your business applications to create your microsegmentation policy
• Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate
• Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure
• Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security
• Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment

Gain control of your network security with complete visibility: An AlgoSec...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:53:13 GMT

In this technical demo of the AlgoSec Security Management Solution, we will show you how network security visibility is an important part of your security arsenal.

Join the session and discover how to:
• Gain visibility of your multi-vendor devices and traffic flows throughout your entire network – on-premises and in the cloud.
• Ensure continuous compliance and reduce the effort needed to prepare for audits with out-of-the-box regulatory compliance reports.
• Visualize and map firewall rulesets.
• Identify and mitigate risky rules and provide intelligent recommendations to remediate the risks.

Gain control of your network security policies with complete visibility.

Managing Network Security with AlgoSec in French

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:05:49 GMT

AlgoSec video for Fortinet France day

Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

How to Modernise Your Infrastructure Without Neglecting Your Security

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:40:34 GMT

Alex Hilton Chief Executive, CIF | Kyle Wickert Worldwide Strategic Architect, AlgoSec | Michael Meyer CRP, MRSBPO

Episode 2 of Keeping Up-to-Date with Your Network Security

There is a lot of value in moving enterprise applications onto the cloud. These benefits range from security and data protection and business agility, to financial benefits and faster time to markets. However, efforts can sometimes be misplaced, which causes disruption to the network and leaves you with inadequate security and compliance measures. Cloud network security is made up of multiple layered security, and before making the decision to use enterprise applications in the cloud, you must thoughtfully consider the variety of security controls you will use to secure your data.

So, how can you elevate digital transformation and cloud migration efforts, without neglecting your security? Does it have to be one or the other, and if not, what steps should be taken in your transformation journeys to ensure that network security remains a priority?

Join us in this session to learn more about:

- What is required to move the security portion of your application

- Challenges and solutions to lower the cost, better prepare for the migration and reduce the risks involved

- How to enhance visibility, and why this is so important when modernising your infrastructure

- How to unify your network security management across a hybrid and multi-cloud environment

Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

Migrate & modernize: Supercharging your Cisco Nexus refresh with ACI

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 22:27:12 GMT

If you still have Cisco Nexus 7000 devices in your environment, surely you have been inundated with end-of-life warnings and next-gen messaging touting the benefits of upgrading to Nexus 9000 with Cisco ACI.

We know, modernizing your infrastructure can be a real pain, but with change also comes opportunity!

Find out in this session how to leverage your Nexus refresh to increase your efficiency and productivity, and reduce security concerns at the same time.

AlgoSec’s Jeremiah Cornelius, along with Cisco’s Cynthia Broderick, will guide you on how to:

• Migrate your current Nexus flows to ACI using your preferred mode – network or application centric.

• Remove vulnerabilities caused by human error via automation of network change processes.

• Instantly identify and remediate risk and compliance violations.

Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

AlgoSec Security Management Suite Demo

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:35:18 GMT

Dive deep into this demonstration of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite.

See how Firewall Analyzer provides visibility into your network, visualize applications with AppViz, visualize automatic network change management with FireFlow and see how you can even make changes at the business application level with AppChange.

Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

The current state of NetOps & SecOps

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:07:26 GMT

Hear from network security experts on the current state of NetOps & SecOps. How are security operations and network operations currently dealing with managing their network security and turning it into a strategic business asset.

Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

How to manage your cloud journey

Wed, 12 May 2021 12:07:03 GMT

Episode 1 of Keeping Up-to-Date with Your Network Security

Speakers:
Alex Hilton Chief Executive, CIF

Oren Amiram Director, Product Management, AlgoSec

Stephen Owen CISO

Securing your data was once much simpler. It’s grown more complex in recent years. As the workforce becomes more distributed, so does your data. Spreading your data across multiple public and private clouds complicates your network. Today’s data sits in multiple locations and geographies, and is made up of multiple public clouds, private clouds and other on-premises network devices. Therefore, managing your cloud journey can be tiresome and complicated.

Enter cloud management.

In this episode we’ll discuss:
- How to manage multiple workloads on the cloud
- What successful security management looks like for today’s enterprises
- How to achieve simple, effective security management for your hybrid network Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

Modernize your network and Harness the power of Nexus & Cisco ACI with AlgoSec

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:18:13 GMT

Watch this short video and see how you can easily modernize your infrastructure with AlgoSec and upgrading your Cisco nexus switches to ACI

Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

Cisco Meraki – Visibility, Risk & Compliance Demo

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:52:09 GMT

Product demo - Discover how you can gain visibility, risk and compliance for Cisco Meraki. Click here for a personal demo: https://www.algosec.com/lp/request-a-demo/

5 power tips to keep your network secure in 2021

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:48:57 GMT

Jade Kahn and Asher Benbenisty | Jan 13, 2021

No one could have predicted how unpredictable 2020 would be, so we’re here to help you get prepared for whatever is in store in 2021.

No matter what happens in the upcoming year – there are five things you can do now to keep your network secure in 2021.

Join network security experts Jade Kahn and Asher Benbenisty, and learn how to:

Never fly blind: Ensure visibility across your entire hybrid network
Do more with less: Accelerate digital transformation & avoid misconfigurations with automation
Stay continuously compliant
Fight ransomware with micro-segmentation
Accelerate in the cloud

A Customer Story: The NCR journey to effective and agile network security

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:28:39 GMT

Scott Theriault, Global Manager, Network Perimeter Security (NCR Corporation) | Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager (AlgoSec) | Dec 17, 2020

Managing security in a multi-billion-dollar enterprise poses many challenges, as well as opportunities. Go inside an S&P 500 company and hear how they manage their network security.

Join Scott Theriault, Global Manager, Network Perimeter Security at NCR Corporation as he shares his real-world experience managing security in a global organization with Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager at AlgoSec. Get insights on:

Key factors managing network security in complex organizations
The benefits of network policy optimization
Importance of maintaining and demonstrating compliance
Change management and automation in large, complex networks
Driving alignment of cloud and on-premises security

Cloud migrations made simpler: Safe, Secure and Successful Migrations Webinar

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:45:32 GMT

Migrating applications to the cloud – without creating security holes, application outages or violating compliance – is within reach!

In this webinar, Avivi Siman-Tov, Director of Product at AlgoSec, will guide you on how to simplify and accelerate large-scale complex application migration projects.

The webinar will cover:
• Why organizations choose to migrate their applications to the cloud
• What is required in order to move the security portion of your application and how long it may take
• Challenges and solutions to lower the cost, better prepare for the migration and reduce the risks involved
• How to deliver unified security policy management across the hybrid cloud environment

Overcoming the Challenges of Managing a Hybrid Environment

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:58:19 GMT

Omer Ganot, Cloud Security Product Manager (AlgoSec), Stuti Deshpande, Partner Solution Architect (AWS) | Sep 2020

Public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a critical part of your hybrid network. It is important to keep out the bad guys (including untrusted insiders) and proactively secure your entire hybrid network.

Securing your network is both the responsibility of the cloud providers, as well as your organization’s IT and CISOs – the shared responsibility model. As a result, your organization needs visibility into what needs to be protected, as well as an understanding of the tools that are available to keep them secure.

In this webinar, Omer Ganot, AlgoSec’s Cloud Security Product Manager, and Stuti Deshpande's, Amazon Web Service’s Partner Solutions Architect, will share security challenges in the hybrid cloud and provide tips to protect your AWS and hybrid environment, including how to:

• Securely migrate workloads from on-prem to public cloud
• Gain unified visibility into your network topology and traffic flows, including both public cloud and on-premises assets, from a single console.
• Manage/orchestrate multiple layers of security controls and proactively detect misconfigurations
• Protect your data, accounts, and workloads from misconfiguration risks
• Protect web applications in AWS by filtering traffic and blocking common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting
• Gain a unified view of your compliance status and achieve continuous compliance

Cisco & AlgoSec Achieving application-driven security across your hybrid network

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:32:39 GMT

Roxana Diaz, Worldwide Technical Solutions Architect (Cisco), Yonatan Klein, Director of Product (AlgoSec)

Your network extends into hybrid environments and may include private clouds running Cisco ACI, and on-premises devices. Managing network security policies in your multi-vendor estate is complex.

Because your network is made up of multiple vendors and each part of your network estate is managed in its own silo, it is tough to get centralized management of your entire network. Making changes is a chore and validating security is difficult.

Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.

In this session Roxana Diaz, Worldwide Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco, and Yonatan Klein, AlgoSec’s Director of Product, will discuss how to manage the Cisco and multi-cloud estate and how to:
• Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities
• Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem
• Get full visibility of your entire hybrid network estate, including items within the Cisco ACI security environment, as well as outside it, including Cisco firewalls and routers, as well as multi-vendor devices.
• Take advantage of Cisco Tetration Analytics and AlgoSec’s intelligent discovery to get a full picture of your network and application traffic and to design and provision a micro-segmentation network policy design.
• Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management
• Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations

Webcast: Build and enforce defense in-depth | An AlgoSec-Cisco Tetration webinar

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:45:44 GMT

Jothi Prakash Prabakaran, Senior Product Manager (Cisco), Yoni Geva, Product Manager (AlgoSec) | July 2020

Panel Discussion: Network Security and Compliance best practices for...

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:06:08 GMT

Financial institutions are forced to invest heavily in digital transformation to gain a competitive edge, especially with customer-facing technology innovations. However, delivery often trails behind the need. New apps are developed, but network security policy
management is often perceived as holding up progress, impeded by manual change-management processes, growing compliance requirements and never-ending audits.

There’s a better way to manage your network security!

Watch our special panel discussion to learn how you can simplify your network security management, reduce risk and ensure continuous compliance.

Topics include:

• How to overcome security management complexities with automation
• How to pass compliance audits in the face of demanding regulations
• Key industry metrics that compare security environments within and beyond the finance industry
• Real financial customers case studies

Micro-segmentation – from Strategy to Execution

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 22:48:10 GMT

Avishai Wool, CTO & Co-founder (AlgoSec) | June 2020

Organizations heavily invest in security solutions to keep their networks safe, but still struggle to close the security gaps. Micro-segmentation helps protect against the lateral movement of malware and minimizes the risk of insider threats. Micro-segmentation has received lots of attention as a possible solution, but many IT security professionals aren’t sure where to begin or what approach to take.

In this practical webinar, Prof. Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s CTO and co-founder will guide you through each stage of a micro-segmentation project – from developing the correct micro-segmentation strategy to effectively implementing it and continually maintaining your micro-segmented network.

• What is micro-segmentation.
• Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.
• The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.
• The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.

Don't forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.

5 practical Steps to Implementing a Zero-Trust Network

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:06:45 GMT

Chase Cunningham, Principal Analyst (Forrester Research), Prof. Avishai Wool, Co-founder & CTO (AlgoSec) | June 30, 2020

A zero-trust architecture mitigates risk by only providing the minimally required access to your network resources. But implementing zero-trust is easier said than done.

Get practical tips to successfully implement zero-trust architecture in this webinar featuring Chase Cunningham of Forrester Research and Prof. Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s co-founder and CTO.

In this session, they will discuss why zero-trust architecture is the blueprint for an effective security strategy, challenges implementing zero-trust architecture, as well as provide the five practical steps to successfully implementing zero-trust architecture:

• Taking an inventory of your sensitive data and deciding how to segment it
• Mapping the traffic flows of your sensitive data and associate them to your business applications
• Designing and enforcing your network’s micro-perimeters
• Ensuring all your security ecosystem integrates so you can holistically monitor and adjust your network if threats are detected
• Embracing security automation and orchestration for long-term success

Achieving Visibility and Security in AWS and across the Hybrid Network | AWS...

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:39:58 GMT

As enterprises rapidly migrate data and applications to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), they achieve many benefits, including advanced security capabilities, but also face new security challenges.

AWS lets organizations operate applications in a hybrid deployment mode by providing multiple networking capabilities. To maintain an effective security posture while deploying applications across complex hybrid network environments, security professionals need a holistic view and control from a single source.

Yet, security isn’t just the responsibility of the cloud providers alone. Organizations need to understand the shared responsibility model and their role in maintaining a secure deployment. While AWS’s cloud framework is secured by AWS, the challenge of using the cloud securely is the responsibility of your organization’s IT and CISOs. As multiple DevOps and IT personnel make frequent configuration changes, the shared responsibility model helps achieve visibility and maintain cloud security.

In this webinar, Yonatan Klein, AlgoSec’s Director of Product, and Ram Dileepan, Amazon Web Service’s Partner Solutions Architect, will share best practices for network security governance in AWS and hybrid network environments.

Application Segmentation with Cisco Tetration & AlgoSec

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:55:35 GMT

Application Segmentation with Cisco Tetration & AlgoSec

The First Step Towards Micro-segmentation: Application Visibility

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:38:21 GMT

Kyle Wickert, Worldwide Strategic Architect, AlgoSec | June 2020

As cyber threats become more sophisticated, companies struggle to stay secure. To prevent serious breaches, your network must be internally segmented to stop unauthorized users from moving freely inside the network and exfiltrate data. Network segmentation must be designed and managed properly.

Identifying the business applications on your network is a critical early step to develop and implement your micro-segmentation strategy.

In this webinar, Kyle Wickert, Worldwide Strategic Architect at AlgoSec, will get you started on your micro-segmentation journey.

Explore:

Why application mapping is a crucial step in your path to micro-segmentation
Ways to discover and map your network’s business applications using industry's leading solutions

How to identify how your micro-segmentation program impacts your business applications
Tips to understand the business impact of your planned segmentation project on your organization
How to succeed with your micro-segmentation project

"Achieving intent-based network security across your hybrid network" with...

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:49:12 GMT

Avishai Wool, AlgoSec CTO and co-founder, discusses how to achieve intent-based network security across your hybrid network at Check Point Cyber Security Summit 2020.

Learn about:

How to reduce the attack surface of your network

The benefits of lateral segmentation

How to manage micro-segmented networks

Turning Network Security Alerts into Action: Change Automation to the Rescue

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:15:01 GMT

Presented by: Dania Ben-Peretz, Product Manager

You use multiple network security controls in your organization, but they don’t talk to each other. And while you may get alerts that come with tools such as SIEM solutions and vulnerability scanners – in your security landscape, making the necessary changes to proactively react to the myriad of alerts is difficult. Responding to alerts feels like a game of whack-a-mole. Manual changes are also error-prone, resulting in misconfigurations. It’s clear that manual processes are insufficient for your multi-device, multi-vendor, and heterogeneous environment network landscape.

What’s the solution? Network security change automation!

By implementing change automation for your network security policies across your enterprise security landscape you can continue to use your existing business processes while enhancing business agility, accelerate incident response times, and reduce the risk of compliance violations and security misconfigurations.

In this webinar, Dania Ben Peretz, Product Manager at AlgoSec, shows you how to:

Automate your network security policy changes without breaking core network connectivity
Analyze and recommend changes to your network security policies
Push network security policy changes with zero-touch automation to your multi-vendor security devices
Maximize the ROI of your existing security controls by automatically analyzing, validating, and implementing network security policy changes – all while seamlessly integrating with your existing business processes

Cessation of Misconfigurations: Common Network Misconfiguration Risks & How...

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:06:41 GMT

Misconfigurations aren’t simply inconvenient mistakes but serious security threats. According to Gartner, 99% of all firewall breaches will be caused by misconfigurations by 2020 and misconfigurations made OWASP’s list of Top 10 most critical web application security risks.

A single change to a network device can have far-reaching effects on your business and create security holes for cybercriminals, impact your audits, and cause costly outages that bring your business to a standstill.

In this webinar, Avivi Siman-Tov, AlgoSec’s Director of Product, will show examples of common misconfigurations, including device changes, business application connectivity changes, and data center migrations. He will also reveal specific techniques to help you avoid them.

Watch the webinar to learn how to:

Understand and map your entire network before you make a change
Proactively assess the impact of a change to ensure it does not break connectivity, affect compliance or create a security hole and understand the impact of changes to your entire network
Maximize the capabilities of network management automation to avoid common misconfigurations
Avoid common mistakes when making changes to your network security devices

Reece Group empowers business and IT teams with ChatOps – Case Study

Mon, 25 May 2020 14:07:56 GMT

Reece Group, the leading Australian plumbing and HVAC company, was able to empower their application developers, get faster response time, reduce risks and increase compliance and more. Watch the video case study to find out more or read the full case study here.

Cut the Clutter with ChatOps & Improve Network Security

Wed, 13 May 2020 23:16:25 GMT

Dania Ben Peretz, Product Manager

IT teams’ alerts are overflowing with questions about network status from coworkers. Say no to overwhelming alerts in multiple applications. There is a better way to get critical answers about the state of your network: ChatOps.

ChatOps, using your existing chat tools such as Slack or Microsoft Teams, can get the crucial questions answered, and not have to track multiple apps separately.

In this webinar, Dania Ben Peretz, Product Manager at AlgoSec, demonstrates the latest in AlgoBot and show how to:

Get immediate answers to pressing network traffic questions

Get immediate answers about whether your business applications are secure
Decrease the time it takes to resolve critical security incidents
Empower your business and application teams to drive innovation
Ensure that your network and security teams are focusing on the most critical issues
Efficiently manage security by transparently collaborating with IT, Security, Network and DevOps teams

All while saving time, reducing resources, and cutting the clutter.

AlgoSec Application Discovery - Creating the application documentation...

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:55:05 GMT

In this short video learn how to leverage AlgoSec Application Discovery to discover, provision, change and securely decommission connectivity for business applications.

AlgoSec Application Discovery discovers and maps application connectivity requirements to the network infrastructure, and then translates requests for connectivity changes into networking terms that security and operations teams can understand, approve, and implement.

Optimize your Juniper Investment with Intelligent Network Security Automation

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:30:22 GMT

Max Shirshov, EMEA Solutions Architect (AlgoSec) | March 24, 2020
Are you maximizing all the capabilities that your Juniper solutions offer? Expand its potential and maximize your ROI. Discover how to secure your homogeneous and multi-vendor network with intelligent automation.

In this webinar, Max Shirshov, EMEA Solutions Architect at AlgoSec, will demonstrate how to assess risk and audit the firewall estate for regulatory compliance, address security breaches caused by misconfigured network devices, and provide fast and efficient change management utilizing the AlgoSec Security Management solution for your Juniper devices.

Join the webinar to learn how to:

Gain complete visibility into your Juniper-estate as well as multi-vendor and hybrid networks
Intelligently push security policy changes to your Netscreen and SRX firewalls, MX routers and Juniper Space, as well as other vendors’ security devices, SDN and public clouds
Automate application and user aware security policy management and ensure your Juniper devices are properly configured
Assess risk and ensure regulatory compliance across your entire enterprise environment

Managing Application Connectivity in the World of Network Security

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:05:32 GMT

Asher Benbenisty, Director of Product Marketing | Feb 27 2018

The constant barrage of application connectivity and network security policy change requests, while fighting a relentless battle against cyber-attacks, means your security management efforts need to be focused on what matters most - ensuring that your business applications continue to run smoothly while remaining secure and compliant.

During this technical webinar, Asher Benbenisty, Director of Product Marketing at AlgoSec, discusses how taking an application-centric approach to security policy management will improve both your security and operational efficiency.

Learn how to:

Gain insight into your company’s security policy management maturity level
Understand your business applications’ network connectivity - including discovering and mapping the connectivity flows
Identify security risks across your enterprise network and prioritize them based on business criticality
Securely migrate business application connectivity and security devices to a new data center

Robert Blank von AlgoSec auf der ITSA 2019

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:54:15 GMT

Robert Blank (Regional Sales Manager DACH von AlgoSec) spricht auf der ITSA 2019 in Nürnberg. Erfahren Sie mehr darüber, wie die Security Policy Change-Automatierung von AlgoSec funktioniert, wie Cisco-Security komplettiert wird, und bekommen Sie hier das neueste Update zur Partnerschaft zwischen AlgoSec mit Cisco.

5 ways to enrich your Cisco security posture with AlgoSec

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:02:44 GMT

Discover the benefits of integrating AlgoSec with your entire Cisco fabric, multi-cloud and multi-vendor network environments.

Network Security Vision with Application Visibility | Live discussion and demo

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:53:57 GMT

Avishai Wool, CTO & Co-founder (AlgoSec) & Yoni Geva, Product Manager (AlgoSec) | March 5, 2020

You’re always making changes to your network, commissioning and decommissioning servers, moving data to and from the cloud, revising application connectivity settings and policies, and/or adding and removing business applications.

But how do you make sure that you are not running blind and making network configuration mistakes that may lead to outages? Are you leaving firewall openings for unused applications, making your network vulnerable to insider threats or outside attackers?

Stop running blind. Expand your vision with application visibility.

With application visibility, you associate your traffic flows to the related business applications, enhance network visibility, improve troubleshooting, gain enhanced compliance reports, and even save time while improving security on your network.

In this webinar, Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s co-founder and CTO, and Yoni Geva, AlgoSec’s Product Manager, will demonstrate – in a live demo - how to overcome these challenges and ensure business continuity through application visibility.

Join the webinar and learn how to:
• Associate your business applications with your security policy rules.
• Identify the network traffic relevant for each application.
• Identify hidden risks and vulnerabilities in your applications.
• Associate compliance violations with the relevant business applications.
• Improve troubleshooting by identifying affected applications.
• Better document the applications on your network.

CouchTalk: Software Defined Networks (SDN) – Migration, Security and Management

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:51:45 GMT

Kyle Wickert, Worldwide Solution Architect, and Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager, discuss software-defined networks (SDN).

As network security moves from a traditional perimeter model to a more granular software-defined model, find out how to simplify network complexity when migrating to SDN.

CouchTalk: Cisco ACI and AlgoSec – Visibility and Automation

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:51:39 GMT

Kyle Wickert, Worldwide Solution Architect, and Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager, discuss security policy change management throughout your Cisco and hybrid environment.

AlgoSec provides visibility and automation into Cisco ACI, enables intent-based networking with Cisco Tetration, and manages and automates Cisco firewalls

Cisco ACI & AlgoSec: Achieving application-driven security across your hybrid...

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:42:55 GMT

As your network extends into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including software-defined networks such as Cisco ACI, managing security policies within your hybrid estate becomes more and more complex.

Because each part of your network estate is managed in its own silo, it’s tough to get a full view of your entire network. Making changes across your entire network is a chore and validating your entire network’s security is virtually impossible.

Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management including both within the Cisco ACI fabric and elements outside the fabric.

In this session Omer Ganot, AlgoSec’s Product Manager, will discuss how to:

Get full visibility of your entire hybrid network estate, including items within the Cisco ACI security environment, as well as outside it.
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management, including elements within and outside of the Cisco ACI fabric.
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations

Interview Tamas Ingram and AlgoSec

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 14:02:50 GMT

AlgoSec is a very good choice if you have different vendors in your network and need to manage the policies of their network rules, so you can handle it very easily

Microsegmentation for Network Security – AlgoSec / SANS Webinar

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:53:23 GMT

Organizations heavily invest in a mix of security solutions to keep their networks safe, but still, struggle to close the security gaps. Micro-segmentation helps protect the organizations' network against the lateral movement of malware and minimizes the risk of insider threats. Micro-segmentation has received lots of attention as a possible solution, but many IT security professionals aren't sure where to begin or what approach to take.

Dave Shackleford, the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst hosts Professor Avishai Wool, AlgoSecs CTO and co-founder, in this practical webinar to unveil why organizations are increasingly micro-segmenting for their networks, and guide you through each stage of a micro-segmentation project from development of the correct micro-segmentation strategy to effective implementation and maintenance of a micro-segmented network.

What micro-segmentation is
Why and how micro-segmentation can be part of the equation in protecting your network.
Common pitfalls in microsegmentation projects and how to avoid them.
The stages of a successful microsegmentation project.
How to monitor and maintain your micro-segmented network.
The role of policy management, change management, and automation in micro-segmentation.

Speaker Bios

Dave Shackleford

Dave Shackleford, a SANS analyst, instructor, course author, GIAC technical director and member of the board of directors for the SANS Technology Institute, is the founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security. He has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and network architecture and engineering. A VMware vExpert, Dave has extensive experience designing and configuring secure virtualized infrastructures. He previously worked as chief security officer for Configuresoft and CTO for the Center for Internet Security. Dave currently helps lead the Atlanta chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Avishai Wool

Prof. Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s CTO and co-founder, is a world-renowned researcher and security industry veteran. He is a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University and serves as the deputy-director of the Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at TAU. Prof. Wool has published more than 110 research papers and holds 13 US Patents, and has served on the program committee of the leading IEEE and ACM conferences on computer and network security. Prof. Wool has a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Empowering DevOps with Network Security and Application Connectivity Automation

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:00:00 GMT

Omer Ganot, Product Manager I Aug 6, 2019

DevOps methodologies enable agile application development and rapid delivery. However, sometimes network security is an afterthought, leading to bottlenecks before release and security breaches after.

When it comes to network connectivity, such as whenever a new application needs to connect to an external resource, the continuous delivery process grinds to a halt. Approving and implementing network changes could stall the application provisioning for weeks. The application developer needs to open change requests and wait for approvals, breaking the continuous delivery cycle. As a result, security is in the uncomfortable position of being a bottleneck and an impediment to innovation.

In this webinar, Omer Ganot, AlgoSec’s Product Manager describes how to seamlessly integrate network security into DevOps, and how the ‘Connectivity as Code’ approach can be implemented to overcome these challenges.

This webinar will teach you how to:

Weave network security changes into the existing CI/CD pipeline to fully automate the application delivery process
Seamlessly manage network connectivity as part of the DevOps process for secure, faster, more agile and problem-free application delivery
Ensure continuous compliance and auditability throughout the application delivery process
Get clearly documented application connectivity requirements which help ensure business continuity
Bridge the gap between application developers and network security throughout the entire application lifecycle

The Capital One Breach: How to avoid the Misconfiguration danger?

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:36:01 GMT

Prof. Avishai Wool explains the Capital One data breach, which exposed the personal information of nearly 106 million people.

The AlgoSec network security policy management solution provides holistic visibility across cloud, on-premise, SDN and hybrid environments, enabling you to proactively analyze risk from the business perspective, intelligently automate security changes, avoid misconfiguration incidents and ensure continuous compliance.

Click here to learn how.

Cisco ACI & Hybrid Networks Breaking Down Silos with Central Policy Management

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:56:43 GMT

Yonatan Klein, Director of Product Management | July 30, 2019

While your network extended beyond the confines of the physical data center and you started using Software Defined Networks (SDN) such as Cisco ACI, managing security policies within your hybrid estate is complex.

Each part of your network estate is managed in its own independent silo instead of being holistically managed.

Learn how to unify, consolidate and automate your entire network security policy management including both the Cisco ACI SDN fabric and elements outside the SDN fabric.

In this webinar, Yonatan Klein, Director of Product Management at AlgoSec, explains how to centralize your security policy management throughout your network and the unique challenges required to manage an SDN fabric, such as Cisco ACI, in order get the most out of your entire network.

He covers how to:
Proactively assess risk throughout your network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations
Gain full visibility and unify security policy management of your entire hybrid network estate, simulate traffic routes and security policy for ACI and other network devices
Manage traffic change requests in a holistic manner, including automatically pushing security policy changes to Cisco ACI by creating contracts and filters to enforce data center whitelist policy; as well as identifying and provisioning changes to firewalls both within the ACI fabric as well as other network security controls that are on-premises and in the cloud

AlgoSec and Cisco ACI for Improved Data Center Security, Compliance and...

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:13:39 GMT

AlgoSec and Cisco ACI deliver security policy across the entire network, enables automated security policy change management for multi-vendor devices, provide risk and compliance analysis, and more.

Avoiding the Security/Agility Tradeoff with Network Security Policy

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:46:31 GMT

Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager | July 10, 2019

Business application deployments and changes require IT, networking and security teams to be more agile than ever before.
But frequently, this agility comes at the expense of security and compliance and enables network breaches and cyber-attacks.

In this webinar, Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager at AlgoSec, covers how network security policy automation helps you avoid this conflict.

Watch the webinar to learn how to:
• Plan for the entire network security lifecycle
• Discover your network topology and traffic flows
• Ensure continuous compliance and identify risks and compliance violations
• Easily implement changes across your hybrid network environment
• Mandate a consistent and unified change process

Managing Network Security with AlgoSec

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:00:30 GMT

Managing complex security polices across devices and operations teams is more challenging than ever. It’s time consuming, risky, prone to human error and out of sync with the business. What if you could automate the entire security policy change process and manage your entire network environment - across cloud, SDN and on-premise – using a single platform? Now you can. Over 1,800 leading organizations, including 20 of the Fortune 50, have relied on AlgoSec to drive business agility, security and compliance. Sounds intriguing? See it in action: https://www.algosec.com/lp/see-algosec-action-2/

Effectively Managing Security Policy | Joint Fortinet & AlgoSec Webinar

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:56:06 GMT

Satish Veerapuneni, Director of Products and Solutions (Fortinet) and Yoav Karnibad, Product Manager (AlgoSec) | Jun 26 2019

In today’s complex and dynamic environment with growing digital business demands, IT often struggles to gain adequate visibility and control, and to ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory guidelines. Effective security policy management that accommodates the dynamic nature of today’s organizations is a key challenge for many IT departments.

In this webinar, Satish Veerapuneni, Director of Products and Solutions at Fortinet and Yoav Karnibad, Product Manager at AlgoSec will discuss how joint customers benefit from AlgoSec’s multi-vendor security policy management capabilities while leveraging Fortinet’s industry-leading Security Fabric’s FortiManager & FortiAnalyzer.

Join this live webinar to learn how to:
• Automate policy optimization and risk assessment across all your security devices.
• Enhance visibility and exercise greater control over your hybrid / heterogeneous network
• Tie application connectivity needs to network security policies, reduce planning time and costs for network change automation
• Assess risk and ensure regulatory compliance across the entire enterprise environment
• Realize single pane of glass management with advanced analysis and management of policy modifications through Fortinet Security Fabric’s FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer and AlgoSec’s Firewall Analyzer, FireFlow and BusinessFlow

Securely Managing Application Connectivity – Best Practices

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:42:42 GMT

Yoni Geva, Product Manager | June 12, 2019
New business applications are added, changed or removed every day, forcing implementation of complex, time-consuming network security changes. Migrating business applications to the cloud adds additional complexities, such as understanding the network connectivity of each application prior to deployment, provisioning the relevant firewalls and routers in the cloud, and then migrating and adjusting existing network connectivity to support them.

In this webinar, Yoni Geva, Product Manager at AlgoSec will present:

•Innovative application-discovery technologies
•Application-centric use cases, including policy cleanup and documentation
•How to simplify and accelerate rule recertification through automation
•How to prevent breaches by associating vulnerabilities to business applications and
firewall rules
•How to ensure ongoing compliance and audit-readiness

Introduction to Micro-segmentation

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:46:15 GMT

In lesson 1, Prof. Wool introduces micro-segmentation: reasons for segmenting the data center, challenges, required steps when deploying a micro-segmentation strategy, and how to future-proof your policies

Microsegmentation - Mapping Existing Applications

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:46:05 GMT

Watch Prof. Wool as he shares tips on how to prepare for network segmentation by identifying the segment borders

Microsegmentation Defining Logical Segments

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:45:53 GMT

In lesson 3, Prof. Wool covers how to define logical segments within a micro-segmentation project

Microsegmentation - Generating a Filtering Policy

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:45:39 GMT

In lesson 4, Prof. Wool demonstrates how to generate a filtering policy during a micro-segmentation project

Microsegmentation - Ongoing Maintenance

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:31:12 GMT

In lesson 5, Prof. Wool video covers the steps needed to take to ensure ongoing maintenance of your data center upon completion of a micro-segmentation project

Asher webinar rule recertification - Promo

Sun, 19 May 2019 14:41:06 GMT

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https://www.algosec.com/webinar/firewall-rule-rectierfication-with-application-connectivity/

Firewall Rule Recertification with Application Connectivity

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:39:25 GMT

Asher Benbenisty, Director of Product Marketing | Apr 24 2019

Firewall rules must be reviewed and recertified regularly for an organization to stay secure, ensure continuous compliance and gain the optimal firewall performance. Firewall rules which are out of date, unused or unnecessary should be removed, as firewall bloat creates gaps in your security posture, causes compliance violations, and decreases firewall performance.

However, manual firewall rule recertification is complex, time-consuming and prone to errors.

Join Asher Benbenisty, AlgoSec’s Director of Product Marketing, on a special webinar introducing an application-centric approach to firewall recertification.

In this webinar Asher will cover:
• Why it is important to regularly review and recertify your firewall rules
• How to use application connectivity for firewall rule recertification
• How to automatically manage the rule-recertification process

Boosting Network Security with ChatOps

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:30:30 GMT

Dania Ben Peretz, Product Manager | Apr 17 2019

The way we consume content has greatly evolved throughout the years - from text-only collateral to using applications that centralize the content and make it easier to access. However, the number of business applications is rapidly growing, ultimately causing organizations to suffer from “app fatigue”.

Network security stakeholders can benefit from such a shift in content consumption by taking a conversational approach with ChatOps.

In this webinar, Dania Ben Peretz, Product Manager at AlgoSec covers how ChatOps helps network security and operational staff to:

Shorten resolution time of critical security incidents
Manage security more efficiently through collaboration and transparency between IT, Security, Network and DevOps teams
Ensure ongoing security and compliance

From antiquity to the cloud: 25 years of firewalls and network filtering

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:37:26 GMT

Prof. Avishai Wool, CTO

The first commercial firewall shipped in 1992. 25 years later the firewall is still the core building block of enterprises’ security infrastructures.

In this educational webinar on the history of the firewall, Prof. Wool will take you through a riveting 25-year journey of the evolution of the firewall - from the ancient world of the host-based firewalls of the 90s, to today’s cloud-based firewalls, and will explain how each type of firewall works, its advantages and limitations, and provide some tips and best practices for effective network filtering.

In this highly informational, and entertaining webinar Professor Wool will cover:

The Early 90s: Host vs. Network
Late 90s: Keeping State
2003: Zone-Based firewalls
2010: Next-Gen firewalls
2015: Virtualized and cloud firewalls

Network security at the speed of DevOps

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:51:11 GMT

Anner Kushnir, VP Technology | Jul 24 2018

DevOps methodologies have become extremely popular to enable agile application development and delivery.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the associated network connectivity, such as whenever a new application needs to connect to an external resource, the process breaks. The application developer then needs to open change requests and wait for approvals which effectively breaks the continuous delivery cycle. As a result security is in the uncomfortable position of being a bottleneck and an impediment to innovation.

In this webinar, Anner Kushnir, AlgoSec’s VP of Technology will describe how the innovative 'Connectivity as Code' approach can be implemented to overcome these challenges, and seamlessly weave network security into the existing CI/CD pipeline in order to fully automate the application delivery process end-to-end.

This webinar will teach you how to:

Seamlessly manage network connectivity as part of the DevOps process for faster, more agile and problem-free application delivery
Avoid external out-of-band network connectivity problems that require separate and manual handling
Ensure continuous compliance and auditability throughout the application delivery process
Get clearly documented application connectivity requirements which help prevent disruptions to the business
Bridge the gap between application developers and network security throughout the entire application lifecycle

Taming the storm clouds: managing network security across hybrid and multi-cloud

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:04:00 GMT

Yonatan Klein, Director of Product Management | Mar 27, 2019

Good old perimeter security, enforced by traditional firewall protection, is now combined with distributed firewalls, public cloud native security controls and third-party security services. The shared-responsibility security model means that IT organizations need to assume accountability for the data and overall security posture, as this is not exclusively the cloud providers’ responsibility.

Today, more than ever, enterprise security teams are challenged to stretch their tried-and-true security policies to their extended deployments. They lack visibility across this growing estate, they can’t keep up with DevOps, and they are unable to properly analyze risk. They need integrated security policy management solutions for hybrid-cloud environments.

Join Yonatan Klein, Director of Product Management at AlgoSec to learn how to take advantage of all the benefits of cloud and virtual deployments while maintaining your current security fundamentals.

Yonatan will cover how to:
•Easily and automatically identify security risks and misconfigurations in your cloud
•Centrally manage security controls across accounts, regions and VPCs/VNETs
•Gain complete visibility across subnets and instances, including security groups, network security groups and NACLs
•Obtain a cross-network-estate risk analysis

Movin' On Up to the Cloud: How to Migrate your Application Connectivity

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:53:55 GMT

Avivi Siman-Tov, Product Manager | Feb 6 2018

Migrating applications to the cloud or to another data center is a complex and risky process. First, you need to understand the applications you are currently running (application discovery). Then, you need to define and map the existing application connectivity flows (pre-migration), so that you can easily reestablish them post-migration.

If done manually, this is a difficult and time-consuming process, and a single mistake can cause outages, compliance violations and create holes in your security perimeter.

Understanding the migration destination is just as important; cloud security architecture is fundamentally different from physical networks, and it is extremely difficult to translate the network connectivity flows to the cloud security controls and then manage network security policies cohesively across the entire hybrid enterprise environment. All in all, migrating application connectivity is a complex, tedious and error-prone process that can take months and often compromises security, compliance and business agility.

In this webinar, Avivi Siman-Tov, Product Manager at AlgoSec, explores how to simplify and accelerate large-scale complex application migration projects, while making security a priority.

Discover best practices to:

Automatically discover applications and their existing connectivity flows
Analyze, simulate and compute the necessary changes – even between different network security technologies such as traditional firewalls and cloud security groups
Execute the necessary firewall rule changes, and mass-migrate relevant connectivity flows
Assess the risk and ensure compliance throughout the migration process
Deliver unified security policy management across the hybrid enterprise cloud environment

AlgoSec Zero Trust Presentation @Forrester Event

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:00:00 GMT

The Forrester Zero Trust Model, when applied to network security, can help organizations develop robust prevention, detection, and incident response capabilities. The session, presented at the Security and Privacy event in Washington DC covered the challenges organizations face and approaches that can be employed, including steps to achieve visibility, policy management automation, application connectivity analysis and network segmentation.

Selecting the right security policy management solution for your organization

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:30:00 GMT

Kyle Wickert, Worldwide Strategic Architect

IT must deliver more, faster. Yet as cyber-attacks increase in volume and sophistication, IT groups are finding themselves ill-equipped to secure their networks and maintain compliance while supporting business productivity.
In this era of digital transformation, managing security across complex enterprise networks presents huge challenges. Automation will ease the pressure.
Join Kyle Wickert, Worldwide Strategic Architect at AlgoSec, for a technical webinar on tips and best practices to help you select the right security policy management solution that will help drive business agility while ensuring security and compliance.

Key topics include:

Intelligent automation is more than just adding policies
Letting a business-centric approach take the lead
Extracting the best from existing automation processes and creating new ones
Managing it all together: cloud, SDN and on-premise

Network Security Audit? Passing Your Next One with Flying Colors

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:00:00 GMT

Prof. Avishai Wool, CTO | Sep 6 2018

Enterprises are required to maintain an unfailing state of compliance with laws and regulations.

Do you know about the upcoming PCI-DSS 3.2.1 standard and what it means for your operation? Are you ready to be audited?

Like fire drills, audits can catch us unprepared and expose inadequacies. What should we do now to make sure we pass the next audit with ease?

Presented by renowned industry expert, Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar imparts best practices and reveals specific techniques to help you make sure that your compliance posture stands up to any audit.

In this webinar, Professor Wool discusses:

Know if your network is compliant with the new PCI standard
Upgrade to the secure alternative to SSL to safeguard your payment data
Prepare for the next audit
Assure continuous compliance

Cisco ACI and AlgoSec Integration (ActiveChange Demo)

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:00:00 GMT

nhanced Security Policy Visibility and Change, Risk, and Compliance Management

Through the integration of AlgoSec and the Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) architecture, customers can monitor security policy changes across their Cisco ACI system, obtain risk and compliance context for both managed and unmanaged security devices, and extend automation across their entire security
environment.

For more information contact AlgoSec at info@algosec.com or visit our website at www.algosec.com

DevOpsifying Network Security: AlgoSec - Ansible Demo

Thu, 31 May 2018 03:00:00 GMT

This demo describes how developers can seamlessly incorporate network connectivity into their DevOps methodology, using their existing CI tools, in order to fully automate the application delivery process end-to-end.

Sharing Network Security Information with the Wider IT Community With Team...

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 02:00:00 GMT

Firewall Management 201: Lesson 18

Collaboration tools such as Slack provide a convenient way to have group discussions and complete collaborative business tasks. Now, these automated chatbots can be used for answering questions and handling tasks for development, IT and infosecurity teams.

For example, enterprises can use chatbots to automate information-sharing across silos, such as between IT and application owners. So rather than having to call somebody and ask them “Is that system up? What happened to my security change request?” and so on, tracking helpdesk issues and the status of help requests can become much more accessible and responsive. Chatbots also make access to siloed resources more democratic and more widely available across the organization (subject, of course to the necessary access rights).

In this video, Prof. Wool discusses how automated chatbots can be used to help a wide range of users for their security policy management tasks – thereby improving service to stakeholders and helping to accelerate security policy change processes across the enterprise.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

The Benefits of Mapping Firewall Rules to Business Applications

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:00:00 GMT

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

New! How to Manage Dynamic Objects in Cloud Environments

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:00:00 GMT

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 7: How to Prepare for Network Segmentation by Identifying the Segment...

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:00:00 GMT

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at

How to Intelligently Select the Security Groups to Modify When Managing...

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Best Practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security: Lesson 7

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

How to Automatically Identify Business Application Connectivity Needs from...

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Managing Business Application Connectivity: Lesson 5

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 7: How to Aggregate Network Flows Into Application Flows

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 17: PCI - Linking Vulnerabilities to Business Applications

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Firewall Management 201: Lesson 17

PCI-DSS 3.2 regulation requirement 6.1 mandates that organizations establish a process for identifying security vulnerabilities on the servers that are within the scope of PCI. In this new lesson, Professor Wool explains how to address this requirement by presenting vulnerability data by both the servers and the by business processes that rely on each server. He discusses why this method is important and how it allows companies to achieve compliance while ensuring ongoing business operations.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

The Right Way to Audit AWS Policies

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Best Practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security: Lesson 6

In this whiteboard video lesson Professor Wool provides best practices for performing security audits across your AWS estate.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

How to Integrate Security into the Test Environment

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Best Practices for Incorporating Security into DevOps

In a typical DevOps scenario development team adds new functionality to an existing business application and then rolls it out into production. However, while the new functionality worked as planned in both the test and pre-production environments, the application then fails when moved into the live production environment. In this video, Professor Wool will discuss the reasons why this process went wrong, and how you can fix it.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Tips for Adding Capacity Without Changing Your Security Policies

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Best Practices for Incorporating Security into DevOps

In theory adding capacity should be fairly straightforward, with minimal need for any intervention by the organization’s security team. But in practice it’s a little more complex. In this video Professor Wool provides some tips and best practices to help you add capacity without having to change your security policies, complete a security review or worse still, cause an outage or gap in the security perimeter.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

How to Integrate Security into the CI Process

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Best Practices for Incorporating Security into DevOps

In previous lessons Professor Wool discussed how building security into DevOps processes at an early stage helps organizations maximize the speed and agility of application development, while minimizing the risks of problems and outages when the applications go live. In this whiteboard video Professor Wool looks at how security automation helps to speed up the practice of Continuous Integration (CI) - a core element of DevOps.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Onboarding New Firewall Devices Using AlgoSec's APIs

Fri, 12 May 2017 03:00:00 GMT

Security integration is a common requirement for many enterprise customers and MSSPs. This video showcases the process to operationalize this requirements including:
1. Onboarding new firewall devices through a web portal
2. Easily get compliance scores for newly onboarded devices
3. Identify firewall cleanup opportunities
4. Identify if security policies are blocking application connectivity

The AlgoSec QRadar App for Incident Response

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 02:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates a new AlgoSec App for incident response which integrates with the IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform.

Through AlgoSec’s integration with IBM QRadar, this App enhances and automates the Security Incident Response process by:

* Augmenting security incident data with business context
* Automatically associating applications with compromised servers
* Identifying network connectivity to/from a compromised server
* Automatically isolating a compromised server from the network

Demo: AlgoSec's Cisco ACI App Center

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 02:00:00 GMT

The AlgoSec Connectivity and Compliance App provides insights into your network and security posture, including a current snapshot of risk and compliance across your ACI fabric.

Key capabilities of the App include:

- Traffic assessment to determine if specific traffic is traversing the network or if its blocked - including visibility into security devices and their status across the traffic route

- The ability to automatically update the firewall policy in the event that connectivity is blocked erroneously

- Instant risk analysis for Cisco ACI contracts alongside firewall security policies

- A detailed PCI compliance report for your Cisco ACI fabric, that’s ready for auditors

Lesson 1: How to Bring Business Context into Incident Response

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:00:00 GMT

Advanced Cyber Threat and Incident Management: Lesson 1

SIEM solutions collect and analyze logs generated by the technology infrastructure, security systems and business applications. The Security Operations Center (SOC) team uses this information to identify and flag suspicious activity for further investigation. In this lesson, Professor Wool explains why it’s important to connect the information collected by the SIEM with other databases that provide information on application connectivity, in order to make informed decisions on the level of risk to the business, and the steps the SOC needs to take to neutralize the attack.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 14: Synchronized Object Management in a Multi-Vendor Environment

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:00:00 GMT

Firewall Management 201: Lesson 14

Many organizations have different types of firewalls from multiple vendors, which typically means there is no single source for naming and managing network objects. This ends up creating duplication, confusion, mistakes and network connectivity problems especially when a new change request is generated and you need to know which network object to refer to. In this lesson Profession Wool provides tips and best practices for how to synchronize network objects in a multi-vendor environment for both legacy scenarios, and greenfield scenarios.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 16: How to Take Control of a Firewall Migration Project

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:00:00 GMT

Firewall Management 201: Lesson 16

Some companies use tools to automatically convert firewall rules from an old firewall, due to be retired, to a new firewall. In this lesson, Professor Wool explains why this process can be risky and provides some specific technical examples. He then presents a more realistic way to manage the firewall rule migration process that involves stages and checks and balances to ensure a smooth, secure transition to the new firewall that maintains secure connectivity.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 2: Bringing Reachability Analysis into Incident Response

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:00:00 GMT

Advanced Cyber Threat and Incident Management: Lesson 2

In this lesson Professor Wool discusses the need for reachability analysis in order to assess the severity of the threat and potential impact of an incident. Professor Wool explains how to use traffic simulations to map connectivity paths to/from compromised servers and to/from the internet. By mapping the potential lateral movement paths of an attacker across the network, the SOC team can, for example, proactively take action to prevent data exfiltration or block incoming communications with Command and Control servers.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

Lesson 15: How to Synchronize Object Management with a CMDB

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:00:00 GMT

Firewall Management 201: Lesson 15

Many organizations have both a firewall management system as well as a CMDB, yet these systems do not communicate with each other and their data is not synchronized. This becomes a problem when making security policy change requests, and typically someone needs to manually translate the names used by in the firewall management system to the name in the CMDB, which is a slow and error-prone process, in order for the change request to work.

In this lesson Professor Wool provides tips on how to use a network security policy management to coordinate between the two system, match the object names, and then automatically populate the change management process with the correct names and definitions.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com

AlgoSec Splunk App for Incident Response

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 02:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates a new AlgoSec App for incident response which integrates with Splunk.

Splunk can detect and analyze potential breaches while AlgoSec manages security policies and augments them with business context.

The new AlgoSec Splunk App enhances and automates incident response by highlighting the potential impact on business applications and business processes; adding information regarding the infected server's exposure to the internet, or access to sensitive internal networks; and automating the action needed to contain the incident.

Lesson 13: Zero-Touch Change Management with Checks and Balances

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:00:00 GMT

Firewall Management 201: Lesson 13

In this lesson, Professor Wool highlights the challenges, benefits and trade-offs of utilizing zero-touch automation for security policy change management. He explains how, using conditional logic, its possible to significantly speed up security policy change management while maintaining control and ensuring accuracy throughout the process.

Cisco ACI and AlgoSec Integration (Overview and Demo)

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 02:00:00 GMT

Enhanced Security Policy Visibility and Change, Risk, and Compliance Management

For more information contact AlgoSec at info@algosec.com or visit our website at www.algosec.com

Combining Security Groups and Network ACLs to Bypass AWS Capacity Limitations

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:00:00 GMT

Best Practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security: Lesson 5

AWS security is very flexible and granular, however it has some limitations in terms of the number of rules you can have in a NACL and security group. In this lesson Professor Wool explains how to combine security groups and NACLs filtering capabilities in order to bypass these capacity limitations and achieve the granular filtering needed to secure enterprise organizations.

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Using AWS Network ACLs for Enhanced Traffic Filtering

Mon, 26 Sep 2016 03:00:00 GMT

In this lesson Professor Wool examines the differences between Amazon's Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), and provides some tips and tricks on how to use them together for the most effective and flexible traffic filtering for your enterprise.

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Lesson 3: Best Practices for Bringing NSX Security Policy Management into the...

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:00:00 GMT

Network Security for VMware NSX: Lesson 3

Once the NSX environment is up and running it needs to be part of the organization’s network security policy change process, and subject to the organization’s governance, audit, and regulatory compliance requirements. In this lesson Professor Wool discusses how to approach managing changes, auditing and compliance when the security team doesn’t ‘own’ the virtual environment.

Lesson 1: Migrating to NSX: Understanding the Why in Order to Figure Out the How

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:00:00 GMT

VMware’s NSX enables datacenter owners to secure East-West traffic using filtering policies that are enforced by the VMware infrastructure. However, migrating from existing traditional filtering technologies to VMware NSX can be a daunting task. In this lesson Professor will discuss why it’s important to understand the motivations for a migration to NSX in order to successfully plan and implement the actual migration to the VMware NSX platform.

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Lesson 2: Tips on How to Create Filtering Policies for NSX

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:00:00 GMT

Network Security for VMware NSX: Lesson 2

When setting up an NSX data center you need to write filtering policies for any traffic that goes into an NSX data center, exits from it, or moves between different servers inside the NSX data center. In this lesson, Professor Wool recommends a multi-stage process to help users write secure and effective policies for east East-West traffic.

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Lesson 4: Using Next Generation Firewalls for Cyber Threat Prevention

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 02:00:00 GMT

Next Generation Firewalls: Lesson 4
As part of the blacklisting approach to application security, most NGFW vendors now offer their customers a subscription based service that provides periodic updates to firewall definitions and signatures for a great number of applications especially the malicious ones. In this lesson, Professor Wool discusses the pros and cons of this offering for cyber threat prevention. It also discusses the limitations of this service when home-grown applications are deployed in the enterprise, and provides a recommendation on how to solve this problem.

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Lesson 3: Managing Your Security Policy in a Mixed Next Gen and Traditional...

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 02:00:00 GMT

Next Generation Firewalls: Lesson 3
Next generation firewalls (NGFWs) allow you to manage security policies with much greater granularity, based on specific applications and users, which provides much greater control over the traffic you want to allow or deny. Today, NGFWs are usually deployed alongside traditional firewalls. Therefore change requests need to be written using each firewall type’s specific terminology; application names and default ports for NGFWs, and actual protocols and ports for traditional firewalls. This new lesson explains some of challenges of writing firewall rules for a mixed firewall environment, and how to address them.

Learn more about AlgoSec at http://www.algosec.com and read Professor Wool's blog posts at http://blog.algosec.com