The Purpose of Network Security Management
Network security management is designed to manage potential threats and risks to an organization’s network security. By improving network visibility and enhancing incident response efforts, it not only reduces an organization’s cybersecurity risk exposure but also aids in efforts to achieve and demonstrate compliance with necessary regulations.
How Does Network Security Management Improve Business Security?
Network security management converges network security functions into a single platform managed via a single pane of glass. This provides various benefits to the organization’s security, including the following:
- Improved Visibility: Security management centralizes visibility into an organization’s security architecture into a single dashboard. This enables security analysts to achieve a more comprehensive view of the current security posture and more quickly and effectively respond to threats.
- Greater Efficiency: Centralized management and the use of automation reduce context switching and reliance on manual processes. This helps to improve the efficiency of the corporate security operations center.
- Reduced Errors: Manual configuration management across multiple tools increases the probability of configuration errors. By using automation and centralizing visibility, network security management reduces this risk of errors.
- Faster Threat Detection: Security management reduces blind spots, context switching, and manual processes. This enables security teams to more quickly identify and respond to potential attacks.
- Rapid Updates: Manually rolling out configuration changes is time-consuming, increasing the time that an organization is potentially vulnerable to attack. Centralized security management can speed up the process of deploying changes, reducing the potential window of exploitation.
Why Does Your Security Team Need a Network Security Management Solution?
Corporate security teams face various challenges that make it more difficult for them to do their jobs and keep up with companies’ rapidly evolving cyber threat surface. Network security management addresses these challenges, enhancing security operations by providing the following features and benefits:
- Improved Security: Network security management improves visibility and threat detection and response. This improves security by enabling security personnel to more quickly find and fix issues.
- Greater Efficiency: Security management reduces manual processes and streamlines policy management workflows. This helps to reduce the load on overwhelmed security teams and enables them to work more efficiently and effectively.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Centralized security management provides the organization with better, more comprehensive data regarding its current security posture. This allows strategic decision-makers to base these decisions on more recent and in-depth data.
- Regulatory Compliance: Companies need to achieve, maintain, and demonstrate compliance with various regulations. Accomplishing this requires not only effective security policies and controls but also the ability to collect the data needed to report to regulators.
Network Security Management Architecture
A network security management architecture is a set of solutions, processes, and strategies designed to implement comprehensive network security management within an organization. This includes implementing solutions that enable centralized network security management and developing processes that ensure that the organization can effectively identify and manage security risks, and detect and respond to potential network security threats.
Security Management with Check Point
Security operations centers often struggle to keep up with their expanding responsibilities. Disconnected security architectures generate large volumes of alerts, and an increasingly distributed corporate network architecture makes it more difficult to maintain comprehensive network security visibility and management.
An effective security management strategy is based on four core pillars, including:
- Automation: Building security into automated CI/CD pipelines helps to reduce potential errors, expedites releases, and enables operational processes to be automated and orchestrated.
- Consolidation: Consolidation of security functions into a single platform improves efficiency, reduces OPEX and CAPEX, and simplifies policy and event management.
- Dynamic Functionality and Agility: The cybersecurity threat landscape is constantly changing, and security solutions, processes, and strategies must be able to adapt at the same pace.
- Efficient Operations: Effective security doesn’t slow the pace of operations. Security must be efficient to provide value without creating potential roadblocks or delays.
Check Point has deep experience in network security management and is committed to simplifying and streamlining network security operations to improve corporate cybersecurity and simplify compliance management. To learn more about implementing effective network security management, check out our whitepaper on security management.
Check Point meets companies’ security management needs via its unified cybersecurity platform, which converges security visibility and functionality into a single solution managed from one dashboard. To learn more about how this works and the potential benefits to your organization and to see the capabilities of Check Point solutions for yourself, sign up for a free demo.
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