Rather than viewing security from the traditional posture of infrastructure and firewall rules, Security needs to be assessed from an application-centric perspective – specifically the business applications that actually generate revenue. Through this approach businesses identify and map their critical applications and their respective traffic flows, in order to understand how both the firewall rules and vulnerabilities affect them. In turn this enables IT teams to implement security policies and operational risk management which is entirely focused on serving the needs of the business.

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