One of the benefits of AlgoSec’s security policy management solution is that it assists organizations with their firewall rule clean-up processes, checking which rules are serving a valid purpose and which ones are redundant. If a rule hasn’t been used within a certain time period, say 8 months, the assumption is that it’s probably not needed and therefore no application will break or become insecure if it’s deleted. However, there is still a risk of unexpected consequences. Even though a given rule wasn’t used during the monitoring period, is it really redundant? To make a a truly informed decision, the firewall administrators need to know which business applications rely on each firewall rule.

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