Compliance – it’s that dirty word that any free-thinking IT professional hates to hear. But like it or not, compliance is a reality of doing business today. One of the biggest problems that I see related to compliance is how it’s treated like a checkbox. Firewall? Check! Access controls? Check! Encryption? Check! And so on. In many cases, the people checking these checkboxes are completely disconnected from the actual firewall administration function and security altogether. The mode of operations is: So and so says that the firewall is secure, so we’re good to go. Not so fast – reality’s not that simple!

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