Taming Unruly Firewalls on the Road to Compliance
Gidi Cohen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Skybox Security
Presentation Abstract:
Rather than disappearing, the network perimeter has become more complex due to today’s constantly changing threat environment. Multiple firewall platforms and management interfaces, monthly changes, overwhelming numbers of rules, and diversity of controls - it’s impossible to realize compliance status with demanding regulations. Manual audits are labor-intensive, taking weeks or months, and can miss configuration errors resulting in compliance violations, service access issues and risk exposures. A large enterprise environment with 1000 firewalls, 4 audits per year, 24 changes per year per firewall and 15% error factor will waste millions from ineffective use of resources. Hear why many of the world’s largest enterprises are making the operational cost of firewalls a business priority in 2008 and learn about:
- Challenges in firewall policy compliance audits
- New techniques for firewall analysis; Automating IT security infrastructure audits
- Applying network and risk analytics to help automate other IT business processes.
Bio:
Gidi Cohen is an experienced speaker and researcher on security, risk management and analytic technologies and speaks frequently at a broad range of security conferences including CERT GFIRST, CSI NetSec, ISSA, InfoSecurity and RSA. As founder and Chief Executive Officer for Skybox Security, he has been instrumental in driving the development of the Security Risk Management market category. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. that developed analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Prior to Vigil Technologies, he managed extensive R&D projects at Orbotech and also served as an officer in the IDF intelligence corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
