Poor Firewall Management Leaves Networks Vulnerable to Attack
Only 7% of network security pros take the time to automate their firewall audit processes.
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Approximately 40% of security professionals spend a month or more on firewall audits annually.
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85% of security professionals say that at least half of their firewall rule changes are poorly designed and must be modified.
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67% of security pros feel that poor change management processes greatly increase the chance of a breach.
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86% plan on rolling out next-generation firewalls over the next year.
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23% of security professionals have never audited their firewalls.
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Worse yet, 22% of security pros have falsified their audits or outright cheated, claiming they didn’t have enough time to do them.
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11% of security professionals don’t have a clue how much time it would take to audit their firewalls.
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Just under 85% of security pros don’t know when firewall rules need to be decommissioned or recertified. 43% of that group manages the process manually.
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47% of security pros attempt to find redundant rules manually. 20% don’t check at all.
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Why security pros cheat on audits:Lack of timeFeeling the audit’s requirements are irrelevant to the businessFear the network security team would seem incompetent
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More than 25% of professionals said that it usually takes hours to days to design a firewall rule change.
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85% of need to fix poorly designed firewall configurations.
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66% are afraid that their change management process might expose their company to a breach.
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56% of those who worry about a change-management-related breach are concerned about their lack of formal processes to handle firewall rule changes.