Firewall application nightmares for dummies

Enterprise security rarely ranks in the top ten favourite programming related disciplines for many software application developers who simply want to build, construct, enhance and deploy as their main priority goals.

But where vulnerabilities are locked down, Security Policy Management (SPM) company Tufin argues that not every enterprise eco-system needs to be so complex that application deployment is rendered impossible.

The firm insists that tackling the challenge of data risk with an application-centric approach and, particularly, the being able to juggle the conundrum of firewall management is the way forward. Tufin cites a recent survey (presumably its own), which showed that nearly half of all firewall changes are related to application connectivity. The undeniable truth is that today's applications have distributed architectures involving multiple servers and communication protocols -- and this means that they (typically) support a variety of user roles with different permissions and restrictions.