60 percent of enterprise firewalls fail critical checks

New research from FireMon shows that 60 percent of enterprise firewalls fail high-severity compliance checks immediately upon evaluation, with another 34 percent falling short at critical levels. Using data collected anonymously from AI-powered analytics platform FireMon Insights deployments across large enterprises and regulated industries, the study found misconfigurations, outdated rules, and bloated policies that bog down performance and leave security teams struggling to keep up. “Firewall complexity isn’t just a configuration issue, it’s a threat to resilience and trust,” says Jody Brazil, CEO and founder at FireMon. “Security teams are buried under policies they can’t explain, map to business objectives,… [Continue Reading]