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Security Change Manager: Lifeline in an Ever-Changing World
By Lex van den Berghe
LogLogic Customer Evangelist
Renowned twentieth century statistician W. Edwards Deming said:
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
Like it or not, change is a hard reality that permeates every aspect of the world around us (including the IT world), and survival in this ever-changing world depends on our ability to adapt and meet these changes prepared.
I recently interviewed one of our security architects, Jason Kirby about our latest product release, LogLogic Security Change Manager, and this is what he had to say about change and the new product release that can be your secret weapon in surviving the many challenges that today’s IT environments throw at you…
As Network Security Engineers, how many times are we stuck performing the repetitious task of updating firewall policies? This process can be very error prone due to the complexity of the network, and becomes more difficult as multiple firewall solutions are deployed, each with their own unique commands and management interface.
With every change comes the repetition of having to verify routing tables, determining the impacted devices on the path, and relying on notepad to manually type out configs – always a tedious and time consuming process. For these and other frequent changes, wouldn’t a way to automate these changes not only save time but also allow you to focus on the other projects that have to be completed?
LogLogic Security Change Manager was designed to address this problem. Starting in 1997 (as Solsoft Policy Manager) it began with Cisco ACL generation and has grown to manage security policies from all of the major firewall vendors – Juniper, Checkpoint, Fortinet and Cisco firewalls.
Adding Security Change Manager to your IT environment can help you:
· Focus on an end-to-end policy generation, by linking and adding visibility for the security rules
· Reduce common human errors (i.e. typos, wrong interface application)
· Reduce the amount of work to rollback and modify changes in case the original request was incorrect
· Deploy the changes simultaneously to multiple devices (benchmarked at 300 devices in under 15 minutes) after automatically generating the configurations
· Save time, especially when engineers are not familiar with one or multiple vendor platforms or not familiar with the Network Topology
These are only a few of the benefits of using LogLogic Security Change Manager (SCM). If you were familiar with the old Solsoft product and haven’t seen Solsoft recently, it has grown up! I’d recommend becoming reintroduced so you can see all of the great changes. And if you’re not familiar with Security Change Manager, checkout the screencast demo, download a data sheet or sign up for a free trial.
Posted September 11, 2009 in | Permalink
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