The Network Butterfly Effect: The Hidden Cost of Network Security Policy Management
Managing network security is time-consuming, error-prone, and costly. Organizations need automated network security to increase efficiency, enhance security, and reduce costs.
The research shows:
- Network managers are losing over half their week to manual tasks and remediating misconfigurations.
- Over 90% of organizations fear failing compliance audits due to preventable misconfigurations.
- Differing priorities across the network and security teams are introducing inefficiencies and delays.
- Practitioners recognize that network security automation reduces human error, increases efficiency, and enhances security.
Large organizations operate hybrid networks, governed by complex network security policies and thousands of firewall management rules. Each represents a potential risk or a single misconfiguration that, like the proverbial butterfly’s wings, often triggers a cascade of unintended consequences.
Skybox surveyed over 500 network and security professionals working in critical national infrastructure and manufacturing organizations with over 1000 employees across North America and the UK to examine this “Butterfly Effect.”
The survey examines the impact to organizations of an over-reliance on manual firewall management processes. It explores how network security misconfigurations threaten security, compliance, and operational uptime. It identifies how miscommunication between teams creates a constant undercurrent of risk, stifling innovation and agility. It reveals what network and security practitioners think of the potential of network security automation to empower them, and the technologies they believe would help them most.
Download your copy to read our key findings and recommendations and discover how automated network security increases your efficiency, enhances your security, and reduces your operational costs.
