AI Is Accelerating Cyber Risk. Policy Determines Whether Organizations Stay in Control.

Anthropic’s Mythos model is putting a spotlight on a reality security teams already know too well: every connected environment contains vulnerabilities. What’s changing is the speed. The latest research from ... Read More

5 Policy Metrics Every CISO Should Be Asking For

| | Insights
Most security teams measure activity. How many firewall changes were processed. How many tickets were closed. How many compliance checks passed. But those are operational statistics, not security outcomes. The ... Read More

Zero Trust Has a Policy Governance Problem: Why Segmentation Fails Without Continuous Policy Control

| | zero trust
Zero Trust has become one of the defining cybersecurity strategies of the modern enterprise for good reason. Organizations have invested heavily in microsegmentation, ZTNA, and cloud-native enforcement controls to reduce ... Read More

Microsegmentation vs Network Segmentation: The Question Every Security Team Eventually Asks

Flat networks are no longer defensible. At some point, every enterprise reaches the same inflection: we need segmentation, but what kind? That question often gets framed as a choice: network ... Read More

How to Trace an Access Path Across Multiple Firewalls

| | Network Security
When a connection fails or succeeds unexpectedly, the first question is simple: Why? But answering that question is not simple in modern environments. A single connection between two systems may ... Read More

How FireMon Evaluates Firewall Changes Before Deployment

| | Change Management
A Step-by-Step Breakdown of Pre-Change Assessment (PCA) Firewall changes are where good intentions turn into outages. A rule gets opened to restore an application. A port is widened to troubleshoot ... Read More

Microsegmentation Is Creating More Policy Than Teams Can Manage. AI Won’t Fix It.

| | microsegmentation
Microsegmentation has become a cornerstone of modern security. It promises granular control, reduced lateral movement, and a practical path to Zero Trust. And as organizations expand across hybrid, cloud, and ... Read More

How to Validate Microsegmentation Policies Before Enforcement

Microsegmentation is easy to define and hard to implement. On paper, the goal is straightforward: Restrict access to only what is required Eliminate unnecessary lateral movement Enforce least privilege across ... Read More

Best Cloud Firewall Vendors for 2026

| | Cloud
Cloud adoption didn’t simplify network security. It multiplied it. Today’s enterprises operate across data centers, hybrid environments, and multiple public clouds. Security teams now manage AWS security groups, Azure Firewall ... Read More

From Firewall Management to Adaptive Security: What IDC’s 2026 Report Means for Security Leaders

| | Network Security
Last year, IDC called firewall policy management a foundation organizations could no longer ignore. This year, the message is more direct. In its 2026 report, Building on Enforcement: Network Security ... Read More