New to micro-segmentation
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
<p>As cyber threats become more sophisticated, companies of all sizes are struggling to stay secure. Regardless of how many different firewalls you use, it’s merely a matter of time until a threat gets through. To prevent serious breaches, networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to build a micro-segmentation strategy that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Yoni Geva, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>Segmentation challenges</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation explained</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation strategy benefits</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation strategy development – first steps</li>
<li>Implementation Do’s and Don’ts</li>
</ul>
Micro-segmentation-based network security strategies
<p>What links the Antwerp Diamond Heist, one of the world’s largest jewelry thefts and data center security? The famous heist was possible because there was no security within the safe deposit vault, enabling the criminals to stay inside undetected for days and steal items worth $100M.</p>
<p>Similarly, to help prevent serious breaches, data center networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to create and manage a micro-segmented data center environment that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Avivi-Siman-Tov, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>How to securely migrate applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Identifying and avoiding common network segmentation pitfalls</li>
<li>Defining and enforcing effective security policies for the micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Managing micro-segmented data centers alongside traditional networks and devices</li>
<li>Identifying and managing security risk and compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
</ul>
Create and manage a micro-segmented data center – best practices
Micro-segmentation good things really come small packages
Jan 9, 2020
<p>For years, organizations have focused most of their network security efforts on the perimeter. First there were firewalls, then intrusion prevention systems came along followed by web proxies, and recently advanced malware detection (AKA sandboxing) solutions. This perimeter-focused approach is often referred to as the M&M Strategy – a hard crunchy outside and soft chewy inside. The problem of course, is once hackers successfully penetrate the perimeter of the network or the data center, (and let’s face it, this has not been a rare occurrence in recent years) there is very little restriction of lateral movement between servers in the data centers.</p>
<p>Enter network segmentation. The need for effective network segmentation is common knowledge, but it is hardly common practice. A poll which we ran (as part of this great webinar) asked IT professionals to describe their network segmentation strategy. Just 30% of respondents said that they strategically set segmentation around business drivers for the latest threats. About a third of respondents said they “set and forget” their segmentation and an equal number reported that they occasionally revisit it—typically around audit time. A brutally honest 6% said “My network what?”</p>
<p>Maintaining effective network segmentation is hard. For starters, you have to figure out how to categorize your assets: what should I protect, who should be able to access it, what is the classification and regulatory environment of data, to name a few. Once you have done it, you need to put in network segmentation controls, typically firewalls. These add cost and perhaps more importantly, add complexity and management overhead. Anyone who has had to process a network access change request that traverses multiple network segments and firewalls, while ensuring that the security and compliance posture is intact, would probably have preferred to schedule a root canal procedure instead.</p>
<p>So onto the million dollar question: Additional network segments adds security and granularity but it also adds cost and complexity… so how many segments does it make sense to have in my network? Well lately, some argue “as many as possible” – say hello to micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>At its core, micro-segmentation is a fancy term for host-based firewalling. This concept has been around since the beginning of firewalls, and never really caught on because of the unreasonable cost and complexity of placing a firewall on every server. But recent developments in cloud and software-defined networking are reinvigorating this security concept. Amazon Web Services for example, offers free built-in “Security Groups” on every instance – this is essentially micro-segmentation in which the security controls are abstracted from the user. The VMWare NSX platform offers hypervisor level virtual firewalling on every host.</p>
<p>Here are some key things to consider when looking at micro-segmentation:</p>
<p> Security – network firewalls are typically rugged, hardened appliances that are very difficult to attack. According to Gartner, 95% of firewall breaches are the result of misconfiguration, not firewall flaws. We must ensure that host-based firewalls cannot be easily disabled or circumvented by an attacker who is able to get access to the machine which runs it.</p>
<p> Integration with Legacy Firewalls – the big box with blinking lights at the perimeter or at the entrance to the data center isn’t going away anytime soon. Companies will still need a way to manage traditional firewalls alongside host-based firewalls, in the data center or in the cloud. In a recent survey, 79% of companies expressed the need for better visibility across on-premise and cloud environments.</p>
<p> Automation – if you think manual firewall operations are tough today (and they are!), wait until you have a firewall on every machine! Without automation across environments and devices, micro-segmentation is simply not feasible.</p>
<p>So is micro-segmentation the way of the future? It’s probably too early to tell, but its certainly worthy of consideration, if not on every machine, then in areas of your network where the “honeycomb” segmentation strategy truly adds value.</p>
Micro-segmentation good things really come small packages
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
Why thinking small is the key for network security
Sep 8, 2020
Why thinking small is the key for network security
<p>Dave Shackleford, the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst hosts Professor Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now to this live webinar to learn:</p>
<p> What micro-segmentation is<br />
Why and how micro-segmentation can be part of the equation in protecting your network.<br />
Common pitfalls in microsegmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful microsegmentation project.<br />
How to monitor and maintain your micro-segmented network.<br />
The role of policy management, change management, and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Dave Shackleford</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Avishai Wool</p>
<p>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.</p>
Micro-segmentation for network security – AlgoSec / SANS webinar
A blueprint for a successful micro segmentation implementation
Jun 23, 2020
<h2 class="MsoNormal">Avishai Wool, CTO and co-founder of AlgoSec, looks at how organizations can implement and manage SDN-enabled micro-segmentation strategies</h2>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.algosec.com/micro-segmentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Micro-segmentation</a> is regarded as one of the most effective methods to reduce an organization’s attack surface, and a lack of it has often been cited as a contributing factor in some of the largest data breaches and ransomware attacks. One of the key reasons why enterprises have been slow to embrace it is because it can be complex and costly to implement – especially in traditional on-premise networks and data centers. In these, creating internal zones usually means installing extra firewalls, changing routing, and even adding cabling to police the traffic flows between zones, and having to manage the additional filtering policies manually.</p>
<p>However, as many organizations are moving to virtualized data centers using Software-Defined Networking (SDN), some of these cost and complexity barriers are lifted. In SDN-based data centers the networking fabric has built-in filtering capabilities, making internal network segmentation much more accessible without having to add new hardware. SDN’s flexibility enables advanced, granular zoning: In principle, data center networks can be divided into hundreds, or even thousands, of microsegments. This offers levels of security that would previously have been impossible – or at least prohibitively expensive – to implement in traditional data centers.</p>
<p>However, capitalizing on the potential of micro-segmentation in virtualized data centers does not eliminate all the challenges. It still requires the organization to deploy a filtering policy that the micro-segmented fabric will enforce, and writing this a policy is the first, and largest, hurdle that must be cleared.</p>
<h3>The requirements from a micro-segmentation policy</h3>
<p>A correct micro-segmentation filtering policy has three high-level requirements:</p>
<p><strong>It allows all business traffic</strong> – The last thing you want is to write a micro-segmented policy and have it block necessary business communication, causing applications to stop functioning.</p>
<p><strong>It allows nothing else</strong> – By default, all other traffic should be denied.</p>
<p><strong>It is future-proof </strong>– ‘More of the same’ changes in the network environment shouldn’t break rules. If you write your policies too narrowly, when something in the network changes, such as a new server or application, something will stop working. Write with scalability in mind.</p>
<h3>A micro-segmentation blueprint</h3>
<p>Now that you know what you are aiming for, how can you actually achieve it? First of all, your organization needs to know what your traffic flows are – what is the traffic that should be allowed. To get this information, you can perform a ‘discovery’ process. Only once you have this information, can you then establish where to place the borders between the microsegments in the data center and how to devise and manage the security policies for each of the segments in their network environment.</p>
<p>I welcome you to <a href="https://pages.algosec.com/Ebook-Micro-segmentation-from-Strategy-to-Execution-LP.html">download AlgoSec’s new eBook</a>, where we explain in detail how to implement and manage micro-segmentation.</p>
<h3>AlgoSec Enables Micro-segmentation</h3>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Suite (ASMS) employs the power of automation to make it easy to define and enforce your micro-segmentation strategy inside the data center, ensure that it does not block critical business services, and meet compliance requirements.</p>
<p>AlgoSec supports micro-segmentation by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Providing application discovery based on netflow information</li>
<li>Identifying unprotected network flows that do not cross any firewall and are not filtered for an application</li>
<li>Automatically identifying changes that will violate the micro-segmentation strategy</li>
<li>Automatically implementing network security changes</li>
<li>Automatically validating changes</li>
</ul>
<p>The bottom line is that implementing an effective network micro-segmentation strategy is now possible. It requires careful planning and implementation, but when carried out following a proper blueprint and with the automation capabilities of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite, it provides you with stronger security without sacrificing any business agility.</p>
<p>Find out more about how <a href="https://www.algosec.com/micro-segmentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">micro-segmentation</a> can help you boost your security posture, or <a href="https://www.algosec.com/products/#request-demo-container">request your personal demo</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
A blueprint for a successful micro segmentation implementation
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Intermediate with micro-segmentation
Micro-segmentation good things really come small packages
Jan 9, 2020
<p>For years, organizations have focused most of their network security efforts on the perimeter. First there were firewalls, then intrusion prevention systems came along followed by web proxies, and recently advanced malware detection (AKA sandboxing) solutions. This perimeter-focused approach is often referred to as the M&M Strategy – a hard crunchy outside and soft chewy inside. The problem of course, is once hackers successfully penetrate the perimeter of the network or the data center, (and let’s face it, this has not been a rare occurrence in recent years) there is very little restriction of lateral movement between servers in the data centers.</p>
<p>Enter network segmentation. The need for effective network segmentation is common knowledge, but it is hardly common practice. A poll which we ran (as part of this great webinar) asked IT professionals to describe their network segmentation strategy. Just 30% of respondents said that they strategically set segmentation around business drivers for the latest threats. About a third of respondents said they “set and forget” their segmentation and an equal number reported that they occasionally revisit it—typically around audit time. A brutally honest 6% said “My network what?”</p>
<p>Maintaining effective network segmentation is hard. For starters, you have to figure out how to categorize your assets: what should I protect, who should be able to access it, what is the classification and regulatory environment of data, to name a few. Once you have done it, you need to put in network segmentation controls, typically firewalls. These add cost and perhaps more importantly, add complexity and management overhead. Anyone who has had to process a network access change request that traverses multiple network segments and firewalls, while ensuring that the security and compliance posture is intact, would probably have preferred to schedule a root canal procedure instead.</p>
<p>So onto the million dollar question: Additional network segments adds security and granularity but it also adds cost and complexity… so how many segments does it make sense to have in my network? Well lately, some argue “as many as possible” – say hello to micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>At its core, micro-segmentation is a fancy term for host-based firewalling. This concept has been around since the beginning of firewalls, and never really caught on because of the unreasonable cost and complexity of placing a firewall on every server. But recent developments in cloud and software-defined networking are reinvigorating this security concept. Amazon Web Services for example, offers free built-in “Security Groups” on every instance – this is essentially micro-segmentation in which the security controls are abstracted from the user. The VMWare NSX platform offers hypervisor level virtual firewalling on every host.</p>
<p>Here are some key things to consider when looking at micro-segmentation:</p>
<p> Security – network firewalls are typically rugged, hardened appliances that are very difficult to attack. According to Gartner, 95% of firewall breaches are the result of misconfiguration, not firewall flaws. We must ensure that host-based firewalls cannot be easily disabled or circumvented by an attacker who is able to get access to the machine which runs it.</p>
<p> Integration with Legacy Firewalls – the big box with blinking lights at the perimeter or at the entrance to the data center isn’t going away anytime soon. Companies will still need a way to manage traditional firewalls alongside host-based firewalls, in the data center or in the cloud. In a recent survey, 79% of companies expressed the need for better visibility across on-premise and cloud environments.</p>
<p> Automation – if you think manual firewall operations are tough today (and they are!), wait until you have a firewall on every machine! Without automation across environments and devices, micro-segmentation is simply not feasible.</p>
<p>So is micro-segmentation the way of the future? It’s probably too early to tell, but its certainly worthy of consideration, if not on every machine, then in areas of your network where the “honeycomb” segmentation strategy truly adds value.</p>
Micro-segmentation good things really come small packages
<p>What links the Antwerp Diamond Heist, one of the world’s largest jewelry thefts and data center security? The famous heist was possible because there was no security within the safe deposit vault, enabling the criminals to stay inside undetected for days and steal items worth $100M.</p>
<p>Similarly, to help prevent serious breaches, data center networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to create and manage a micro-segmented data center environment that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Avivi-Siman-Tov, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>How to securely migrate applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Identifying and avoiding common network segmentation pitfalls</li>
<li>Defining and enforcing effective security policies for the micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Managing micro-segmented data centers alongside traditional networks and devices</li>
<li>Identifying and managing security risk and compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
</ul>
Create and manage a micro-segmented data center – best practices
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
<p>Dave Shackleford, the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst hosts Professor Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now to this live webinar to learn:</p>
<p> What micro-segmentation is<br />
Why and how micro-segmentation can be part of the equation in protecting your network.<br />
Common pitfalls in microsegmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful microsegmentation project.<br />
How to monitor and maintain your micro-segmented network.<br />
The role of policy management, change management, and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Dave Shackleford</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Avishai Wool</p>
<p>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.</p>
Micro-segmentation for network security – AlgoSec / SANS webinar
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
A blueprint for a successful micro segmentation implementation
Jun 23, 2020
<h2 class="MsoNormal">Avishai Wool, CTO and co-founder of AlgoSec, looks at how organizations can implement and manage SDN-enabled micro-segmentation strategies</h2>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.algosec.com/micro-segmentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Micro-segmentation</a> is regarded as one of the most effective methods to reduce an organization’s attack surface, and a lack of it has often been cited as a contributing factor in some of the largest data breaches and ransomware attacks. One of the key reasons why enterprises have been slow to embrace it is because it can be complex and costly to implement – especially in traditional on-premise networks and data centers. In these, creating internal zones usually means installing extra firewalls, changing routing, and even adding cabling to police the traffic flows between zones, and having to manage the additional filtering policies manually.</p>
<p>However, as many organizations are moving to virtualized data centers using Software-Defined Networking (SDN), some of these cost and complexity barriers are lifted. In SDN-based data centers the networking fabric has built-in filtering capabilities, making internal network segmentation much more accessible without having to add new hardware. SDN’s flexibility enables advanced, granular zoning: In principle, data center networks can be divided into hundreds, or even thousands, of microsegments. This offers levels of security that would previously have been impossible – or at least prohibitively expensive – to implement in traditional data centers.</p>
<p>However, capitalizing on the potential of micro-segmentation in virtualized data centers does not eliminate all the challenges. It still requires the organization to deploy a filtering policy that the micro-segmented fabric will enforce, and writing this a policy is the first, and largest, hurdle that must be cleared.</p>
<h3>The requirements from a micro-segmentation policy</h3>
<p>A correct micro-segmentation filtering policy has three high-level requirements:</p>
<p><strong>It allows all business traffic</strong> – The last thing you want is to write a micro-segmented policy and have it block necessary business communication, causing applications to stop functioning.</p>
<p><strong>It allows nothing else</strong> – By default, all other traffic should be denied.</p>
<p><strong>It is future-proof </strong>– ‘More of the same’ changes in the network environment shouldn’t break rules. If you write your policies too narrowly, when something in the network changes, such as a new server or application, something will stop working. Write with scalability in mind.</p>
<h3>A micro-segmentation blueprint</h3>
<p>Now that you know what you are aiming for, how can you actually achieve it? First of all, your organization needs to know what your traffic flows are – what is the traffic that should be allowed. To get this information, you can perform a ‘discovery’ process. Only once you have this information, can you then establish where to place the borders between the microsegments in the data center and how to devise and manage the security policies for each of the segments in their network environment.</p>
<p>I welcome you to <a href="https://pages.algosec.com/Ebook-Micro-segmentation-from-Strategy-to-Execution-LP.html">download AlgoSec’s new eBook</a>, where we explain in detail how to implement and manage micro-segmentation.</p>
<h3>AlgoSec Enables Micro-segmentation</h3>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Suite (ASMS) employs the power of automation to make it easy to define and enforce your micro-segmentation strategy inside the data center, ensure that it does not block critical business services, and meet compliance requirements.</p>
<p>AlgoSec supports micro-segmentation by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Providing application discovery based on netflow information</li>
<li>Identifying unprotected network flows that do not cross any firewall and are not filtered for an application</li>
<li>Automatically identifying changes that will violate the micro-segmentation strategy</li>
<li>Automatically implementing network security changes</li>
<li>Automatically validating changes</li>
</ul>
<p>The bottom line is that implementing an effective network micro-segmentation strategy is now possible. It requires careful planning and implementation, but when carried out following a proper blueprint and with the automation capabilities of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite, it provides you with stronger security without sacrificing any business agility.</p>
<p>Find out more about how <a href="https://www.algosec.com/micro-segmentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">micro-segmentation</a> can help you boost your security posture, or <a href="https://www.algosec.com/products/#request-demo-container">request your personal demo</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
A blueprint for a successful micro segmentation implementation
Why thinking small is the key for network security
Sep 8, 2020
Why thinking small is the key for network security
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Oct 14, 2020
<p>Professor Avishai Wool, Co-founder and CTO at AlgoSec discusses the five practical steps that organizations can take to implement a Zero-Trust Network Policy </p>
<p>While the concept of Zero Trust was created 10 years ago, the events of 2020 have thrust it to the top of enterprise security agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven mass remote working, which means that organizations’ traditional perimeter-based security models have been broken up, in many cases literally overnight. In this new normal of remote working, an organization’s network is no longer a single thing in one location: it is everywhere, all of the time. Even if we look at organizations that use a single data center located in one place, this data center is accessed by multiple users on multiple devices. </p>
<p>With the sprawling, dynamic nature of today’s networks, if you don’t adopt a Zero-Trust approach, then a breach in one part of the network could quickly cripple your organization as malware, and especially ransomware, makes it way unhindered throughout the network. We have seen multiple examples of ransomware attacks in recent years: organizations spanning all sectors, from hospitals, to local government and major corporations, have all suffered large-scale outages. Put simply, few could argue that a purely perimeter-based security model makes sense anymore. </p>
<p>Five Practical Steps to Zero-Trust Networking </p>
<p>These five steps represent the most logical way to achieve Zero-Trust networking, by finding out what data is of value, where that data is going and how it is being used: </p>
<p>Identifying and segmenting data – The foundation of Zero Trust is visibility, because you cannot protect what you cannot see. Once you have identified the data you want to protect, you can define your segments by identifying and grouping together servers that support the same business intent. Mapping the traffic flows of your sensitive data – Once you have identified your sensitive data, the next step is knowing where the data is going, what it is being used for and what it is doing. Automated discovery tools can help you to understand the intent of the network flows carrying your data. Once you have that, you can then get to the Zero-Trust part of saying “and everything else will not be allowed.” Architecting the network – Once you know what flows should be allowed you can move onto designing a network architecture, and a filtering policy that enforces your network’s micro-perimeters. After going through the discovery process, you are able to understand the intent of the flows, place boundaries between the different zones and segments, and write the filtering policies that ensure all legitimate business traffic is allowed – and nothing else Monitoring – With the microsegments and policies deployed, it is essential to monitor all aspects of the network to ensure continuous compliance and understand intent before making the big switch from a default ‘allow’ policy to a default ‘deny,’ or organizational ‘D-Day.’ Automate and orchestrate – Finally, the only way you will ever get to D-day is with the help of a policy engine, the central ‘brain’ behind your whole network policy. Without this, you have to do everything manually across the entire infrastructure every time there is a need for a change. Your policy engine, enabled by automation orchestration, is able to compare any change request against what you have defined as your legitimate business connectivity requirements. Only requests that fall outside the guidelines of acceptable use need to be reviewed and approved by human experts. </p>
<p>Focus on business outcomes, rather than security outcomes </p>
<p>Removing the complexity of security enables real business outcomes, since processes become faster and more flexible without compromising security or compliance. Using the steps I’ve outlined to automate Zero Trust practices means that the end-to-end time from making a change request to deployment and enforcement goes down to one day, or even a few hours – without introducing risk. </p>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Solution allows security teams to eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual security processes, such as connectivity mapping, migrating, and ongoing maintenance of their environments. Our smart and easy network mapping tool takes away the hardship of getting automation up and running. This frees up teams to strategically maximize the benefits of the SDN deployment and reap its rewards of increased flexibility and enhanced network security. </p>
<p>Get in touch for more information on how AlgoSec can help make Zero-Trust networking a reality. </p>
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Expert in micro-segmentation
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
<p>What links the Antwerp Diamond Heist, one of the world’s largest jewelry thefts and data center security? The famous heist was possible because there was no security within the safe deposit vault, enabling the criminals to stay inside undetected for days and steal items worth $100M.</p>
<p>Similarly, to help prevent serious breaches, data center networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to create and manage a micro-segmented data center environment that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Avivi-Siman-Tov, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>How to securely migrate applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Identifying and avoiding common network segmentation pitfalls</li>
<li>Defining and enforcing effective security policies for the micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Managing micro-segmented data centers alongside traditional networks and devices</li>
<li>Identifying and managing security risk and compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
</ul>
Create and manage a micro-segmented data center – best practices
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Oct 14, 2020
<p>Professor Avishai Wool, Co-founder and CTO at AlgoSec discusses the five practical steps that organizations can take to implement a Zero-Trust Network Policy </p>
<p>While the concept of Zero Trust was created 10 years ago, the events of 2020 have thrust it to the top of enterprise security agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven mass remote working, which means that organizations’ traditional perimeter-based security models have been broken up, in many cases literally overnight. In this new normal of remote working, an organization’s network is no longer a single thing in one location: it is everywhere, all of the time. Even if we look at organizations that use a single data center located in one place, this data center is accessed by multiple users on multiple devices. </p>
<p>With the sprawling, dynamic nature of today’s networks, if you don’t adopt a Zero-Trust approach, then a breach in one part of the network could quickly cripple your organization as malware, and especially ransomware, makes it way unhindered throughout the network. We have seen multiple examples of ransomware attacks in recent years: organizations spanning all sectors, from hospitals, to local government and major corporations, have all suffered large-scale outages. Put simply, few could argue that a purely perimeter-based security model makes sense anymore. </p>
<p>Five Practical Steps to Zero-Trust Networking </p>
<p>These five steps represent the most logical way to achieve Zero-Trust networking, by finding out what data is of value, where that data is going and how it is being used: </p>
<p>Identifying and segmenting data – The foundation of Zero Trust is visibility, because you cannot protect what you cannot see. Once you have identified the data you want to protect, you can define your segments by identifying and grouping together servers that support the same business intent. Mapping the traffic flows of your sensitive data – Once you have identified your sensitive data, the next step is knowing where the data is going, what it is being used for and what it is doing. Automated discovery tools can help you to understand the intent of the network flows carrying your data. Once you have that, you can then get to the Zero-Trust part of saying “and everything else will not be allowed.” Architecting the network – Once you know what flows should be allowed you can move onto designing a network architecture, and a filtering policy that enforces your network’s micro-perimeters. After going through the discovery process, you are able to understand the intent of the flows, place boundaries between the different zones and segments, and write the filtering policies that ensure all legitimate business traffic is allowed – and nothing else Monitoring – With the microsegments and policies deployed, it is essential to monitor all aspects of the network to ensure continuous compliance and understand intent before making the big switch from a default ‘allow’ policy to a default ‘deny,’ or organizational ‘D-Day.’ Automate and orchestrate – Finally, the only way you will ever get to D-day is with the help of a policy engine, the central ‘brain’ behind your whole network policy. Without this, you have to do everything manually across the entire infrastructure every time there is a need for a change. Your policy engine, enabled by automation orchestration, is able to compare any change request against what you have defined as your legitimate business connectivity requirements. Only requests that fall outside the guidelines of acceptable use need to be reviewed and approved by human experts. </p>
<p>Focus on business outcomes, rather than security outcomes </p>
<p>Removing the complexity of security enables real business outcomes, since processes become faster and more flexible without compromising security or compliance. Using the steps I’ve outlined to automate Zero Trust practices means that the end-to-end time from making a change request to deployment and enforcement goes down to one day, or even a few hours – without introducing risk. </p>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Solution allows security teams to eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual security processes, such as connectivity mapping, migrating, and ongoing maintenance of their environments. Our smart and easy network mapping tool takes away the hardship of getting automation up and running. This frees up teams to strategically maximize the benefits of the SDN deployment and reap its rewards of increased flexibility and enhanced network security. </p>
<p>Get in touch for more information on how AlgoSec can help make Zero-Trust networking a reality. </p>
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Design a micro-segmented network
<p>Dave Shackleford, the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst hosts Professor Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now to this live webinar to learn:</p>
<p> What micro-segmentation is<br />
Why and how micro-segmentation can be part of the equation in protecting your network.<br />
Common pitfalls in microsegmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful microsegmentation project.<br />
How to monitor and maintain your micro-segmented network.<br />
The role of policy management, change management, and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Dave Shackleford</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Avishai Wool</p>
<p>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.</p>
Micro-segmentation for network security – AlgoSec / SANS webinar
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Why thinking small is the key for network security
Sep 8, 2020
Why thinking small is the key for network security
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
<p>As cyber threats become more sophisticated, companies of all sizes are struggling to stay secure. Regardless of how many different firewalls you use, it’s merely a matter of time until a threat gets through. To prevent serious breaches, networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to build a micro-segmentation strategy that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Yoni Geva, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>Segmentation challenges</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation explained</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation strategy benefits</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation strategy development – first steps</li>
<li>Implementation Do’s and Don’ts</li>
</ul>
Micro-segmentation-based network security strategies
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Oct 14, 2020
<p>Professor Avishai Wool, Co-founder and CTO at AlgoSec discusses the five practical steps that organizations can take to implement a Zero-Trust Network Policy </p>
<p>While the concept of Zero Trust was created 10 years ago, the events of 2020 have thrust it to the top of enterprise security agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven mass remote working, which means that organizations’ traditional perimeter-based security models have been broken up, in many cases literally overnight. In this new normal of remote working, an organization’s network is no longer a single thing in one location: it is everywhere, all of the time. Even if we look at organizations that use a single data center located in one place, this data center is accessed by multiple users on multiple devices. </p>
<p>With the sprawling, dynamic nature of today’s networks, if you don’t adopt a Zero-Trust approach, then a breach in one part of the network could quickly cripple your organization as malware, and especially ransomware, makes it way unhindered throughout the network. We have seen multiple examples of ransomware attacks in recent years: organizations spanning all sectors, from hospitals, to local government and major corporations, have all suffered large-scale outages. Put simply, few could argue that a purely perimeter-based security model makes sense anymore. </p>
<p>Five Practical Steps to Zero-Trust Networking </p>
<p>These five steps represent the most logical way to achieve Zero-Trust networking, by finding out what data is of value, where that data is going and how it is being used: </p>
<p>Identifying and segmenting data – The foundation of Zero Trust is visibility, because you cannot protect what you cannot see. Once you have identified the data you want to protect, you can define your segments by identifying and grouping together servers that support the same business intent. Mapping the traffic flows of your sensitive data – Once you have identified your sensitive data, the next step is knowing where the data is going, what it is being used for and what it is doing. Automated discovery tools can help you to understand the intent of the network flows carrying your data. Once you have that, you can then get to the Zero-Trust part of saying “and everything else will not be allowed.” Architecting the network – Once you know what flows should be allowed you can move onto designing a network architecture, and a filtering policy that enforces your network’s micro-perimeters. After going through the discovery process, you are able to understand the intent of the flows, place boundaries between the different zones and segments, and write the filtering policies that ensure all legitimate business traffic is allowed – and nothing else Monitoring – With the microsegments and policies deployed, it is essential to monitor all aspects of the network to ensure continuous compliance and understand intent before making the big switch from a default ‘allow’ policy to a default ‘deny,’ or organizational ‘D-Day.’ Automate and orchestrate – Finally, the only way you will ever get to D-day is with the help of a policy engine, the central ‘brain’ behind your whole network policy. Without this, you have to do everything manually across the entire infrastructure every time there is a need for a change. Your policy engine, enabled by automation orchestration, is able to compare any change request against what you have defined as your legitimate business connectivity requirements. Only requests that fall outside the guidelines of acceptable use need to be reviewed and approved by human experts. </p>
<p>Focus on business outcomes, rather than security outcomes </p>
<p>Removing the complexity of security enables real business outcomes, since processes become faster and more flexible without compromising security or compliance. Using the steps I’ve outlined to automate Zero Trust practices means that the end-to-end time from making a change request to deployment and enforcement goes down to one day, or even a few hours – without introducing risk. </p>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Solution allows security teams to eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual security processes, such as connectivity mapping, migrating, and ongoing maintenance of their environments. Our smart and easy network mapping tool takes away the hardship of getting automation up and running. This frees up teams to strategically maximize the benefits of the SDN deployment and reap its rewards of increased flexibility and enhanced network security. </p>
<p>Get in touch for more information on how AlgoSec can help make Zero-Trust networking a reality. </p>
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Operate the micro-segmented network
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Oct 14, 2020
<p>Professor Avishai Wool, Co-founder and CTO at AlgoSec discusses the five practical steps that organizations can take to implement a Zero-Trust Network Policy </p>
<p>While the concept of Zero Trust was created 10 years ago, the events of 2020 have thrust it to the top of enterprise security agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven mass remote working, which means that organizations’ traditional perimeter-based security models have been broken up, in many cases literally overnight. In this new normal of remote working, an organization’s network is no longer a single thing in one location: it is everywhere, all of the time. Even if we look at organizations that use a single data center located in one place, this data center is accessed by multiple users on multiple devices. </p>
<p>With the sprawling, dynamic nature of today’s networks, if you don’t adopt a Zero-Trust approach, then a breach in one part of the network could quickly cripple your organization as malware, and especially ransomware, makes it way unhindered throughout the network. We have seen multiple examples of ransomware attacks in recent years: organizations spanning all sectors, from hospitals, to local government and major corporations, have all suffered large-scale outages. Put simply, few could argue that a purely perimeter-based security model makes sense anymore. </p>
<p>Five Practical Steps to Zero-Trust Networking </p>
<p>These five steps represent the most logical way to achieve Zero-Trust networking, by finding out what data is of value, where that data is going and how it is being used: </p>
<p>Identifying and segmenting data – The foundation of Zero Trust is visibility, because you cannot protect what you cannot see. Once you have identified the data you want to protect, you can define your segments by identifying and grouping together servers that support the same business intent. Mapping the traffic flows of your sensitive data – Once you have identified your sensitive data, the next step is knowing where the data is going, what it is being used for and what it is doing. Automated discovery tools can help you to understand the intent of the network flows carrying your data. Once you have that, you can then get to the Zero-Trust part of saying “and everything else will not be allowed.” Architecting the network – Once you know what flows should be allowed you can move onto designing a network architecture, and a filtering policy that enforces your network’s micro-perimeters. After going through the discovery process, you are able to understand the intent of the flows, place boundaries between the different zones and segments, and write the filtering policies that ensure all legitimate business traffic is allowed – and nothing else Monitoring – With the microsegments and policies deployed, it is essential to monitor all aspects of the network to ensure continuous compliance and understand intent before making the big switch from a default ‘allow’ policy to a default ‘deny,’ or organizational ‘D-Day.’ Automate and orchestrate – Finally, the only way you will ever get to D-day is with the help of a policy engine, the central ‘brain’ behind your whole network policy. Without this, you have to do everything manually across the entire infrastructure every time there is a need for a change. Your policy engine, enabled by automation orchestration, is able to compare any change request against what you have defined as your legitimate business connectivity requirements. Only requests that fall outside the guidelines of acceptable use need to be reviewed and approved by human experts. </p>
<p>Focus on business outcomes, rather than security outcomes </p>
<p>Removing the complexity of security enables real business outcomes, since processes become faster and more flexible without compromising security or compliance. Using the steps I’ve outlined to automate Zero Trust practices means that the end-to-end time from making a change request to deployment and enforcement goes down to one day, or even a few hours – without introducing risk. </p>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Solution allows security teams to eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual security processes, such as connectivity mapping, migrating, and ongoing maintenance of their environments. Our smart and easy network mapping tool takes away the hardship of getting automation up and running. This frees up teams to strategically maximize the benefits of the SDN deployment and reap its rewards of increased flexibility and enhanced network security. </p>
<p>Get in touch for more information on how AlgoSec can help make Zero-Trust networking a reality. </p>
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>As cyber threats become more sophisticated, companies of all sizes are struggling to stay secure. Regardless of how many different firewalls you use, it’s merely a matter of time until a threat gets through. To prevent serious breaches, networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to build a micro-segmentation strategy that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Yoni Geva, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>Segmentation challenges</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation explained</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation strategy benefits</li>
<li>Micro-segmentation strategy development – first steps</li>
<li>Implementation Do’s and Don’ts</li>
</ul>
Micro-segmentation-based network security strategies
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
<p>Dave Shackleford, the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst hosts Professor Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now to this live webinar to learn:</p>
<p> What micro-segmentation is<br />
Why and how micro-segmentation can be part of the equation in protecting your network.<br />
Common pitfalls in microsegmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful microsegmentation project.<br />
How to monitor and maintain your micro-segmented network.<br />
The role of policy management, change management, and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Dave Shackleford</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Avishai Wool</p>
<p>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.</p>
Micro-segmentation for network security – AlgoSec / SANS webinar
Fighting ransomware
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Reducing your risk of ransomware attacks
Nov 3, 2020
Reducing your risk of ransomware attacks
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>What links the Antwerp Diamond Heist, one of the world’s largest jewelry thefts and data center security? The famous heist was possible because there was no security within the safe deposit vault, enabling the criminals to stay inside undetected for days and steal items worth $100M.</p>
<p>Similarly, to help prevent serious breaches, data center networks must be internally segmented to stop hackers moving freely inside the network and exfiltrating data – but network segmentation must be designed and managed correctly if it’s to be successful. This webinar will examine how to create and manage a micro-segmented data center environment that truly protects your organization’s valuables.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Avivi-Siman-Tov, Product Manager at AlgoSec will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>How to securely migrate applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Identifying and avoiding common network segmentation pitfalls</li>
<li>Defining and enforcing effective security policies for the micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Managing micro-segmented data centers alongside traditional networks and devices</li>
<li>Identifying and managing security risk and compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
</ul>
Create and manage a micro-segmented data center – best practices
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Visibility in the micro-segmented network
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Risk & compliance for the micro-segmented network
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Register now for this live webinar and get a practical blueprint to creating your micro-segmentation policy:</p>
<p> What is micro-segmentation.<br />
Common pitfalls in micro-segmentation projects and how to avoid them.<br />
The stages of a successful micro-segmentation project.<br />
The role of policy change management and automation in micro-segmentation.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to also click on the links in the Attachments tab.</p>
Micro-segmentation – from strategy to execution
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Watch the webinar to learn how to:</p>
<p> Understand your business applications to create your micro-segmentation policy<br />
Validate your micro-segmentation policy is accurate<br />
Enforce these granular policies on workloads and summarized policies across your infrastructure<br />
Use risk and vulnerability analysis to tighten your workload and network security<br />
Identify and manage security risk and compliance in your micro-segmented environment</p>
Build and enforce defense-in-depth with Cisco and AlgoSec
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Jan 6, 2021
Fighting ransomware – CTO roundtable insights
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
Aug 17, 2020
Build and enforce defense-in-depth
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Learn how to unify, consolidate, and automate your entire network security policy management across your Cisco and multi-vendor estate.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p> Capitalize on your Cisco ACI investment to take advantage of its full capabilities<br />
Bring centralized visibility, automation, and compliance monitoring into your Cisco and multi-vendor network ecosystem<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Unify, consolidate, and automate your network security policy management<br />
Proactively assess risk throughout your entire network, including Cisco ACI contracts, and recommend the necessary changes to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations</p>
Achieving application driven security across your hybrid network
<p>Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it’s far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity.</p>
<p>Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center.</p>
<p>In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic</li>
<li>Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices</li>
<li>Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center</li>
<li>Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits</li>
<li>Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes</li>
</ul>
Migrating and managing security policies in a segmented data center
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Oct 14, 2020
<p>Professor Avishai Wool, Co-founder and CTO at AlgoSec discusses the five practical steps that organizations can take to implement a Zero-Trust Network Policy </p>
<p>While the concept of Zero Trust was created 10 years ago, the events of 2020 have thrust it to the top of enterprise security agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven mass remote working, which means that organizations’ traditional perimeter-based security models have been broken up, in many cases literally overnight. In this new normal of remote working, an organization’s network is no longer a single thing in one location: it is everywhere, all of the time. Even if we look at organizations that use a single data center located in one place, this data center is accessed by multiple users on multiple devices. </p>
<p>With the sprawling, dynamic nature of today’s networks, if you don’t adopt a Zero-Trust approach, then a breach in one part of the network could quickly cripple your organization as malware, and especially ransomware, makes it way unhindered throughout the network. We have seen multiple examples of ransomware attacks in recent years: organizations spanning all sectors, from hospitals, to local government and major corporations, have all suffered large-scale outages. Put simply, few could argue that a purely perimeter-based security model makes sense anymore. </p>
<p>Five Practical Steps to Zero-Trust Networking </p>
<p>These five steps represent the most logical way to achieve Zero-Trust networking, by finding out what data is of value, where that data is going and how it is being used: </p>
<p>Identifying and segmenting data – The foundation of Zero Trust is visibility, because you cannot protect what you cannot see. Once you have identified the data you want to protect, you can define your segments by identifying and grouping together servers that support the same business intent. Mapping the traffic flows of your sensitive data – Once you have identified your sensitive data, the next step is knowing where the data is going, what it is being used for and what it is doing. Automated discovery tools can help you to understand the intent of the network flows carrying your data. Once you have that, you can then get to the Zero-Trust part of saying “and everything else will not be allowed.” Architecting the network – Once you know what flows should be allowed you can move onto designing a network architecture, and a filtering policy that enforces your network’s micro-perimeters. After going through the discovery process, you are able to understand the intent of the flows, place boundaries between the different zones and segments, and write the filtering policies that ensure all legitimate business traffic is allowed – and nothing else Monitoring – With the microsegments and policies deployed, it is essential to monitor all aspects of the network to ensure continuous compliance and understand intent before making the big switch from a default ‘allow’ policy to a default ‘deny,’ or organizational ‘D-Day.’ Automate and orchestrate – Finally, the only way you will ever get to D-day is with the help of a policy engine, the central ‘brain’ behind your whole network policy. Without this, you have to do everything manually across the entire infrastructure every time there is a need for a change. Your policy engine, enabled by automation orchestration, is able to compare any change request against what you have defined as your legitimate business connectivity requirements. Only requests that fall outside the guidelines of acceptable use need to be reviewed and approved by human experts. </p>
<p>Focus on business outcomes, rather than security outcomes </p>
<p>Removing the complexity of security enables real business outcomes, since processes become faster and more flexible without compromising security or compliance. Using the steps I’ve outlined to automate Zero Trust practices means that the end-to-end time from making a change request to deployment and enforcement goes down to one day, or even a few hours – without introducing risk. </p>
<p>The AlgoSec Security Management Solution allows security teams to eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual security processes, such as connectivity mapping, migrating, and ongoing maintenance of their environments. Our smart and easy network mapping tool takes away the hardship of getting automation up and running. This frees up teams to strategically maximize the benefits of the SDN deployment and reap its rewards of increased flexibility and enhanced network security. </p>
<p>Get in touch for more information on how AlgoSec can help make Zero-Trust networking a reality. </p>
Five practical steps to implementing a zero-trust network
Change management automation in the micro-segmented network
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Yonatan will cover how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Easily and automatically identify security risks and misconfigurations in your cloud</li>
<li>Centrally manage security controls across accounts, regions and VPCs/VNETs</li>
<li>Gain complete visibility across subnets and instances, including security groups, network security groups and NACLs</li>
<li>Obtain a cross-network-estate risk analysis</li>
</ul>
Taming the storm clouds
Customer story securelink
Oct 5, 2019
Customer story securelink
<p>Migrating applications to the cloud – without creating security holes, application outages or violating compliance – is within reach!</p>
<p>In this webinar, Avivi Siman-Tov, Director of Product at AlgoSec, will guide you how to simplify and accelerate large-scale complex application migration projects.</p>
<p>The webinar will cover:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why organizations choose to migrate their applications to the cloud</li>
<li>What is required in order to move the security portion of your application and how long it may take</li>
<li>Challenges and solutions to lower the cost, better prepare for the migration and reduce the risks involved</li>
<li>How to deliver unified security policy management across the hybrid cloud environment</li>
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