Network configuration changes are a significant cause of IT continuity issues

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Tufin Technologies has announced the results of a survey of 140 network security professionals. 64 percent of these respondents reported that their organization had recently experienced application service disruptions due to network configuration changes.

Other findings included:

55 percent of respondents have more than 50 mission-critical enterprise applications deployed across their organization; About one third have more than 100.
Almost 90 percent say that more than 50 percent of their organizations firewall changes are application-related.
60 percent of respondents manage connectivity requirements across three or more network security consoles.
31 percent say their organization may have had a security breach due to a rule change related to a new application.
41 percent deploy at least one new application each week and 31 percent each month; 71 percent on-board at least one new user to an existing application each week
37 percent keep track of application connectivity requirements by inserting comments into the firewall rule base, subjecting the organization to procedural inefficiencies:
- Application owners, after defining the applications’ connectivity requirements, are left with limited visibility;
- The firewall policy is defined by the application connectivity policy, creating a bottom-up rather than top-down approach;
- 16 percent don’t keep track of application connectivity requirements at all
54 percent may have opened ports NOT required for applications, exposing the organization to potential compliance violations and security breaches.

www.tufin.com

•Date: 24th Oct 2012 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

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