Albarius’s network security life hacks

born from the real pains of veteran network security engineers that were looking for a way to make their very tedious job of managing policies, much simpler.

The result was Alabrius’s platform that simplifies network security policy management and meets every policy challenge head on with a network security “life hack”.

How Albarius simplifies network policies’ mightiest challenges

So, what are those network security “life hacks” and how do they make network security professionals’ lives?

As someone who answers this question on a daily basis, Bartal was kind enough to compile the following short list:

Identifying and managing inactive rules

Trying to navigate robust policies/rule bases and understand which rules are inactive is virtually impossible. With Albarius’s smart engine that continuously scans traffic, the platform generates reports of inactive rules and prompts deletion when needed to make the rule base/policy more secure and efficient.

Complex rules & relationships

Often, due to the complex nature of the network and the different devices connected to it, it warrants complex rules with multiple conditions and reciprocal behavior. Keeping track and understanding every condition and/or device is tedious and unrealistic. Albarius’s AI simplifies that completely by automatically mapping out all conditions and behaviors/relationships within the network and consequently easily & efficiently setting up the most appropriately secured rules for the network.

Rules change management & tracking

Working in a multi-vendor environment with teams and team members ever changing, striving for consistency on the org’s policies/rule bases can prove really challenging, as any minor change might affect production and lead to recurring ops. disruptions. Albarius’s state-of-the-art change management and approval flow modules keep your rule base/policy consistently secured with no production interruptions.

Managing robust policies/rule bases

With most corporates/enterprises rule bases comprising of tens of thousands (sometimes even more) of rules, it is not really feasible to effectively manage and optimize these rule bases, especially not manually and/or semi-automatically. With Albarius’s platform you can gain a very easily visible view of your entire rule base, including filtering the rules based on a multitude of filters, making it simple to identify and plug potential breaches and keep your policy intact and always secured.

Managing multi-vendor environments

Having to manage policies across multi-vendor environments and management platforms can prove to be a very tedious and time-consuming effort. Albarius’ “one click to rule them walls” consolidates and centralizes all policy management and execution through a single pane of glass across all FW vendors, simplifying and minimizing your network security efforts.

24/7 Analysis & optimization

Maintaining and constantly optimizing a rule base/policy to fit and secure your organization is a very tedious task, often pushed back in priority, leaving your policies vulnerable and inefficient. Albarius’s platform removes all tediousness by analyzing your policies 24/7, and presenting you with every gap & potential breach (unsecure rules, outdated rules, unused objects, etc.) and fixes them at a single click to enhance your policies security at all times.

In Summary

Network security policy management is often a lot like brick laying work – no one really wants to do it, but it needs to be done, as policies are the foundations of every org’s security. However, that doesn’t mean managing and optimizing policies should be hard and discouraging. Leveraging on the aforementioned network security “life hacks” can make any network security professional’s lives simpler with automated, highly secured and efficient policy management that lets them focus on more strategic security initiatives.